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I feel like the one I saw was lighter, almost custard lime...it's been years but I'd know it if it I saw it. One of my countless "if I were a multi-millionaire" fantasies is to have my own glass factory where I'd recreate all the recipes in Helmer's book and hire artisans and engineers to create machines that would make 1.5" replicas of the original marbles.

I'm assuming the colors on Akros are quite rare being as I've not seen them since. With marbles anything is possible. Could have been a single small "pot" glass batch someone mixed up, ran through the cork machine, and never made again.

Several years ago at my first marble show a seller offered a vibrant Akro prize name cork with an electric light lime-aqua color in it that I've not seen since. He was selling it for $50. He said it was a very early example when there Arnold Fiedler was mixing up crazy colors (or possibly when someone else was using his recipes later), but I've since not seen any with those colors except a vibrant orange and blue and orange and green. Does anyone have more information on these, or pictures of them?

Something like this may end up being a mixed martial arts competition, with opinionated experts coming to fisticuffs over the nature of seams and the meaning of "mint".

Condition was why I did not bid but I sure wish I had gotten that hot pink strip one. I'm still amazed at what auctions I missed despite several minutes daily of browsing mib auctions.

HOS.COM - space music! I listen to about three shows on an average week day.

If it's any consolation, I promise not to outbid anyone. Heck, I won't even bid if it makes you feel better.

Wow, this is how I picture marbles in heaven with perfect resurrected bodies. No flaws. Maybe jeroen is posting from a higher altitude?

I take it the CAC heads are silent due to OpSec. Of course a wise counter-intelligence move would be to spread doubt as to these marbles so as to scare of the deep pockets.

I think somebody needs cash and QUICK.

I'm getting a strange vibe from these, particularly the striped opaques: http://www.ebay.com/...=p2047675.l2562 Maybe my vibe is envy? Or is it just the quality of the photos throwing things off? If so he's not doing them justice.

I would much prefer this style in Jabo colors over the spaghetti chaos swirls, but on second thought the last thing we need is more Jabos in the Pre-1970 category on eBay.

I've come up with a new name for this mib: Fried Egg Green Guinea Rainbo Multi-Color Swirl

Strange. It looks like a heavily polished Pelt christmas tree.

Here is another Pelt from my collection.

It's no wonder that color is rare. I doubt many boys in those days were proudly hoisting forth a handful of pink Bennies, crying, "Who wants to play for keeps?"

Hmmm...that fried egg definitely has a guinea spot look to it. It's definitely a neater marble now. I'm still on the fence, not being a CAC guy, so I'll hold my tongue. Anyone else care to chime in now that the egg has fried?

Ultimately what we're protesting here is not P.T. Barnum but the suckers born every minute who buy this junk.

Here's my Pelt green guinea. I way overpaid $10 for this in Las Vegas! But it's wet mint with no blow holes or stretch marks.

He put them in Pre-1970 Machine Made, then noted "Exact Mfg Date Unknown"

Pelt MCS colors--red,white,blue--in the exact same order as Pelt. Not one guinea spot.

Do you have a link to the new photos? I went to the site and the photos look exactly the same.

It will be interesting to see the new photos and whether they contain guinea spots. For now my money is on Pelt.

Ever since I watched that show I would fantasize about finding the ultimate mibster storage locker. A case of World's Best Guinea's, some walnut brag boxes filled with 7/8" Pelt NLRs....gun cases filled with giant handmades. The tormenting thing is, you know that somewhere out there those exist.

But if you think about it, a clever way to salvage heavily damaged mibs by making them into fruit.