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

With all due respect to CAC superfans, I find this extremely rare green based guinea to look a lot like many a messed up Pelt rainbo I've sorted through without a second thought: http://morphyauctions.auctionflex.com/showlot.ap?co=31120&weid=31141&weiid=11256680&archive=n&keyword=marbles&lso=pricedesc&pagenum=1〈=En On the other hand there are some CACs in there I would spend unhealthy amounts of money on if I hadn't already spent that money on other things.

Wow, can't believe it has been a year. He will be missed for a long time. Here's a large full screen shot of his final auction (1mb picture warning): http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2325/marblealanlastauction.png

You'd think people rich enough to afford wasting money on fakes could afford educating themselves by purchasing real ones.

Ouch that's a lot of money. I thought it was clever that the seller put the item condition field as New. He also sold this "new" marble AS IS, which is also interesting. Here's one Scott Patrck that sold for $25 recently: http://www.ebay.com/...=p2047675.l2557

I actually thought those were fun and unique, but the shipping scared me, particularly imagining the nightmare if they got busted during transit.

I was impressed how Jabo had converted Crayolas into marbles, but now they've managed to do it with Pop Tarts!

Very nice! Too bad he insulted every potential customer by calling them losers or I might try it out with some of my really beat up ones.

On another forum I remember mention of one of his super colorful Vitros sold many months ago on eBay from someone in Phoenix. I never heard whether anyone found out where the seller got it from.

I put a super bright light under her and while she is entirely dark when viewed from the side, if you view from the top directly above where the light source is, she glows a deep amber. I do not see any bubbles or formations inside; I think the damage combined with the opaqueness makes that impossible to see even if it did exist.

Current best guess: rejected early glass door knob. I'm pretty sure this was not a marble, yeah?

Seems more flattened on one side (the one with the decoration), although there are a lot of large flakes that have taken it out of round elsewhere, but definitely squished/flattened on that one side. I would be tempted to say the face was once a door knob, but the backside has nothing to mount such with. It came in a lot with some very old marbles like a banded agate, and a couple of large Benningtons. Edit: Maybe was something like these door knobs (since converted into wine stoppers)

Got this today. Black glass with a few white decorative inserts. About 1 3/4". I bet it was pretty once. Don't think it's a candidate for polishing, though.

Absolutely gorgeous...did they make bigger of these?

Wow, amazing lots in there...did you see the lunchbox CACs? Seeing collections like this makes me think I don't even collect marbles.

Any opinion on these fancies? They strike me as very similar to lots sold by youhave2bid2win: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MARBLES-ANTIQUE-TOY-BENNINGTON-CLAY-LOT-OLD-FANCIES-/170909966391?pt=Marbles&hash=item27cb072037

They look like orchids trapped in glass. Beautiful. So you're the one who keeps winning those ones on eBay!

Is there a way to open them without destroying them? Maybe mine will contain some CACs.

It's like somebody slipped Peltier Rainbo glass into a Master Made machine.

We newer collectors are often puzzled by how you old timers behave, so we keep our distance and assume this is just how things are done in the hobby. We keep our respect too, because we want to maintain access to your marble hoards.

youhave2bid2win could expand her operations dramatically with such a machine....I bet she'll start buying up cullet. She could finance this machine with her fake fancy bennies.

Sold for $99...the blue chicken has a new owner. And isn't it nice to know Benningtons are still being manufactured today.

One could argue that this marble will, in fact, one day be an antique. In that sense the buyer is investing in the future.

Most of the exotic marbles pictured in this post do not look any more exotic or less contemporary than these examples which have been machine made in the last 8 or so years: http://www.glassartists.org/Gal13756_2005_10.asp http://www.glassartists.org/Gal34122_2008-09.asp http://www.glassartists.org/Gal34288_2008-10.asp Do we really believe that the CAC glass artists thought these perfectly flawless and amazing marbles were junk and ritually buried them rather than sell them (or keep them), and then kept focusing on making swirls and the occasional guineas because the little boys would never like such amazing and colorful marbles?

I thought Jabos were actually Peltiers, Akros, CACs, and Vitros. Seems like that's how everyone sells them on eBay these days.