bumblebee

For buy /sell, people can post external listings here: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/38521-share-public-marble-auctions-and-sales-listings-here/ For trade, I would be willing to re-add a forum that is Trade only, but also restricted by post count. Trades gone bad are heart breaking. I would rather only trusted, established users have access. That way we don't attract scammers who might have gotten kicked off the FaceBook buy/sell forums. Maybe that's what I should have done in the first place. What do you all think?

Exciting! I have never found a CAC Guinea in any condition out there in 15 years of active collecting.

Good to see agates getting some love. I don't have any yellow agates either. They aren't great looking in the examples I have seen. They lack pop and contrast, so I think they stopped bothering to dye them because the results were unsatisfactory compared to the banded agate colors in red, blue, green, black, etc. After yellow, gray with white bullseyes is my rarest color. Gray/white is the natural color of a lot of agate deposits. You can easily find solid gray agates without bullseyes, but I have only found one gray agate with white bullseyes that is faceted. I find more blue than green for some reason, though bullseyes of either color are very scarce in hand-faceted ones, and shooters even rarer. I read somewhere they struggled with consistent results with blue dyes, which reflects my blue agates. Many are very dark or have varying shades of blue in them. Then there are agates that are sort of chocolatey and creamy, orange with white, then black and white ones (often called onyx), then the famous carnelian red agates with white bullseyes. Below those are the cheaper grades lacking bullseyes or having very faint bullseyes, usually carnelian colors, but sometimes shades of gray. You can still buy some high quality dyed agates made today that look as good as the better vintage ones to the point you might think they are vintage but for the lack of facets. This seller on Etsy has the best ones I know about: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1515876781/banded-agate-sphere-blue-sagb

It seems the Score! thread has veered into deep mibology debate...maybe ya'll could start a new topic in the general forum to focus the energy there. 😎

He's being a rebel hanging out with the non-glass tough old guys. 😀

About 12 years ago my neighbor in California, who was not a collector, got a flea market lot similar to this size for $75 and went on to sell individually for about $5k, including a Blue Galaxy. Most were individually in bags so obviously belonged to a real collector but the sellers obviously didn't know, and neither did my neighbor until he started listing them and saw the bids flying.

This seller is obviously new to marbles. His batting average is very poor, but I sort of admire his tenacity and imagination.

Steph, you could drop a few of your common marbles in a little cardboard box and sign the top and offer a limited number of them here, assuming you have commons left. I can't be the only MC old timer who would pay to cherish a little memento to help us remember the Marble Queen and her contributions to the hobby. Edit: Al would prefer you make a fantasy bag of course. 😃

That's a real agate mineral marble. The half-moon marks are hits called moons. Looks like there might be a deeper internal fracture too. The German-made ones will have small flat faceted areas all over the surface which can be hard to see with the naked eye sometimes, but under very bright light the faceting can be seen, but a loupe may be required. If it's later then it would be ground by machine and not show any facets.

This is the real question: where is he and why isn't he online? He has much to offer and we miss his contributions.

This was my best one I sold recently for only $90. It had a bunch of clear glass so in hand the depth was exceptional, and had orange UV glass to boot:

If you search for something like royal aventurine our board will show post results for either word, which you probably did not want. If you want to search for both, there will be a link under your search that contains AND in it, so you just click that to see posts that contain the words royal and aventurine in them. There are other links too which will help you narrow the results. Finally, if you click on the magnifier icon in the search area, you will be taken to the advanced search page where you can fine tune your searches. Further discussion: I can change the board's default behavior to search BOTH instead of EITHER, but I would need member feedback to decide whether to change that behavior. I assume if I do that, the link logic above will allow you to search for either.

Sorry ya'll, but I just have too much going on this season to participate. Had fun the couple of times I did in the past though. I am in the Christmas spirit, however, and have been wanting to downsize my marble collection. My hope was I could identify a new but eager collector and give them a smokin' deal on a vintage marble starter kit. If anyone knows someone who would be truly blessed by common but minty vintage mibs, let me know. I know how it stinks to be constantly outbid by the deep pockets out there, so I'd like to game the system and get a new collector a head start.

On a 0.89" Pelt. IMG_9894.mov

Absolutely Pelt Golden Rebel. I have marbles from multiple makers with that pattern...believe it's just something that happens once in a while when certain glass patterns form a sort of mirror as the gob folds over onto the rollers. I was lucky to find a Golden Rebel in the wild, although it was pretty darn small. I eventually sold it for $400 to pay a utility bill. 🤔