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Previously I had only found one melon ball in the wild (blue left) but today found two more, including an opaque light aqua. The top darker green one doesn't have a "big" pontil on the bottom pole, which is totally smooth.

Nice big slagalanche. If these were edible, I always imagined they'd taste like molasses and root beer.

Thanks. This was from an extremely limited run at the Vitro factory as they could only afford the Flemish oxblood brush artist for one day. Also, sticking the live sparkler inside the glass right before it hit the rollers was tricky and dangerous, and rarely worked as intended. Furthermore, there was only one cobra (a juvenile) in the state of WV that year, and they ran out of cobra within a couple dozen marbles. As for popeye, it was said one of the glass workers read the funnies every morning and kept them in his overalls pocket, and during this run the folded funnies--with the Popeye strip on the front--fell into the glass furnace.

Don't forget the bumper sticker version: MY OTHER TRI-LITE IS A SPARKLER BRUSHED OXBLOOD POPEYE 6-COLOR COBRA

LOL

Just when you thought your Vitro tri-lite was, at best, superior, word magic induces a money-fed frenzy of imagination which creates the Vitro Sparkler Brushed Oxblood Popeye which, according to the description:

We could do a group donation of old slags and he could remelt into a limited "Lazarus" run we would get dibs on.

Quick, somebody send a camera crew and make a documentary.

Interesting I had not heard that before. I found an article on Google Books describing a schoolyard game called Center Ball in 1908 which includes ring men:

You know, it struck me the base is like my Akro milky oxbloods, and sure enough those often have white wisps on the surface.

This 0.64" mystery arrived in an estate mason jar with 90% Vitro tri-lites and superiors. There were a number of odd-ball tri-lites and "tweeners" (IMHO) in this jar but this one stood out above the rest. See that faint whisp of blue inside the smoky base? I'm guessing an anemic conqueror?

I managed to capture my favorite "electric blue" color in my collection on what I believe is a Master meteor(?) And while we're at it, I got a good sunlit shot of my 1" Eurosparkler with his orange peel surface:

FWIW, found another from this series with a Jaboesque plumber's smile.

Whatever it was, I wanted it and I didn't get it and I'll feel that regret for years until I find one exactly like it.

Just lost its cousin by $1. I should have bid $50+ www.ebay.com/itm//331755358310

OK thanks. Odd that in 7+ years of collecting I feel I have only ever found a handful of MK's (well, not counting cat-eyes).

Wee pea!

Thanks, Steph. I was thinking MK but for the depth and clear glass. I also forgot to mention that they seem slightly out of round. Here's another shot backlit without flash where you can see the depth.

I got these in my first big haul when I started collecting. They are 0.72" and have two seams, almost looking like bullet molds. What's not clear in the pictures is that there are channels of clear glass on some parts of the surface, so they are not veneered. Also, they're not quite as vibrantly blue in hand.

http://www.stamps.com/usps/postage-rate-increase/ Priority up 9.4% average 1st class up 12.8% average (!)

It's a Bogard Boogard

If I had won, my plan was to hire an army of people in "marble country" states to attend and win marble auctions for me so that I would have a constant flood of marble mail. Seriously, that was right up there with giving my family some money and going on a cruise.

GMTA for sure! That's basically what I do, mixing phrases (via quotes) with keywords. I also find the word "boys" closely associated with "marbles" in old articles. For sure when I invent my time machine I am bringing back cases of marbles.

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