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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.

Planning to at least put the big facts. So much is speculation that I'm not sure many will care to hear everything. Nicknames Aggies Realers Manufacture Types of Damage Moons A hertzian cone crack (the "moon" in a marble) forms due to intense contact stress when the agate marble strikes a hard surface. The impact creates a circular or cone-shaped fracture pattern beneath the surface, which appears as a white or cloudy crescent or circle when viewed through the translucent agate. This type of stress fracture is named after Heinrich Hertz, who first described the mechanical principles behind it. Sugaring Rough spots Handmade agates begin with a worker chipping them into a rough sphere using a hammer. Sometimes the grinder, when faceting the surface of the marble, misses a small area of the original rough marble. These flaws are more common on the finer agates. It seems like cheaper, more flawed agates were fairly common. Dyed Banded Agates Color Rarity Carnelian red Black Brown Blue I find many more blue agates than green agates, although classic style blue agates with vivid white bullseyes are rare in my experience. Green Green agates in larger shooter size seem very rare. I just don't find them or see them, and when I do, it usually turns out that they are not faceted. That being said, they do appear in smaller sizes. Grey Grey is the natural color of untreated agate. I have only found one true bullseye shooter agate that is natural grey with true white bullseyes. On the other hand, solid grey agates Yellow A very rare color, likely because it would not be attractive due to the lack of contrast between the yellow and any bullseyes which would be white.

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. EDIT: Apparently rumors of Bill Tow's death have been greatly exaggerated.

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.

Refreshing to see no bids on it.

I put the five names in a box and my daughter drew the winner this morning... Congratulations to @B-rett66, you win all the marbles!

I was wondering that too, but when I searched the FB Vacor Fans group for "eclipse", this came up in about the fifth post from back in May!