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Some Vitro hybrid cats in that original lot that was found a few years ago. Many were of more pastel colors.

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I am shuttering our largely inactive Buy and Sell forum on Monday, November 18th. I have disabled posting to it but am leaving it up a few days in case someone needs to retrieve something from it. Closing it will allow MarbleConnection to stay focused on discussions. It will also reduce our moderation overhead and eliminate the risk of blow-back from potential deals gone sour. For buying and selling, you can find a much better experience elsewhere such as the National Marbles - Buy & Sell group on FaceBook. The FaceBook groups have thousands of members and a fair bidding system with more public accountability, so I highly recommend you join some of those groups if you're looking to buy or sell. Thanks for your understanding and for your contributions to The Marble Connection! P.S.: If there is enough interest, we can make a sticky post on the general forum where members can promote their eBay or FaceBook group marble listings.

Always a good assumption, similar to that NLR box that had an entire row of Blue Galaxies.

These finds always get my imagination whirling...you know somewhere out there in some forgot warehouse there's a stack of even better original boxes (probably quite water damaged) waiting to be found.

Yeah, it could have been on the street, the antique store--even Costco, which is scary crowded here. I think somebody who needed it got it. I got those over 15+ years of hunting in the wild, eBay, trades, etc.

I am in the daily habit of carrying an agate in my front-left pants pocket. I choose a different one every day. Today I wore a pair of jeans with a small hole in the front pocket. I thought the hole was too small to worry about, so decided I would carry a lucky agate in it, this time a fine "owl eye" shooter from one of the best agate lots I ever scored on eBay. Alas, somewhere in Kalispell, Montana today, that hole got a little bigger and the agate dropped down my pant leg and rolled away without me feeling or hearing a thing. I hope the person who finds it joins the hobby and makes it their lucky agate.

https://www.mcculloughraiguel.com/obituaries/David-Junior-Mccullough?obId=33371156

Thought the same, and how lucky we are that folk were so litigious because we get these great depositions with raw history!

It says incomplete and at some point around page 447 it skips to somewhere in the 500s, so I imagine there are other gaps throughout. Contains depositions with terrific descriptions of marble making, etc. PDF is attached. Images are just sample excerpts. Edit: I have also included a separate document containing plaintiff exhibits in color. Hopefully more such documents will surface. These documents are from the University of Illinois-Urbana and scanned by Google, so it's possible the university has others. Peltier_Glass_Company_V_Akro_Agate_Company_court of appeals transcript.pdf plaintiff exhibits Peltier_Glass_Company_V_Akro_Agate_Co-1926.pdf

I found this on Facebook: Think he had a website way back when. I saved some pictures from it. Can't remember what it was called though so I can't look it up on the Internet Archive.

Here's AI's vision of toy marbles found in King Tut's tomb.

The Mojo Elvis one is perfect. That seems like a marble Elvis would dig.

Locking this thread as it has wandered off topic into the squabble zone, but we do have a Squabble Zone area if someone wants to start a new thread there.

Bummed to miss this as I am leaving Vegas after a conference the afternoon of the 23rd.

(all credit goes to artificial intelligence)

The max dimensions were 200px, but max size 100kb. So it's probable the maximum dimension issue. I upped that to 300px to see if that helps. @William

Renewed my local Craiglist wanted ad and within a couple of days scored this really nice yellow(amber?) lutz with only a few flea bites. I think it's about 0.79". I rarely find handmades so always a treat.

First show I ever went to. Sure miss it but I'm in -20 degrees in Montana now where marbles are scarcer than sunlight. 😆

Here's a photo of the bag of them the original eBay seller showed me.

His link is safe but his SSL security certificate expired and is no longer valid. He needs to renew it and install the new one.

That 2nd one! 🌶️

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Hah! 🤣 Glad they made it despite delays caused by the Abominable Snow Man. Merry Christmas! 🎄

Nice. I found one that size, a white with some lutz, but pretty banged up. Still, peewees are utterly charming. I keep meaning to craft my own miniature peewee brag box some day.