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Yep, definitely not Matthews, and maybe someone will recognize the signature. This one is one of my larger ones at 2.66” - a Kris Parke dark beauty:

Chad how big is that beauty, and who is the maker? I can’t quite make out the mark. It sorta resembles one of Matthews’ old Hugo Largos.

“CAC?”🤔

Kudos to all here, especially Bob and Stephen! Nice assortment of mibbage.

It’s a fun place - I think that lovely mib was signed “Bruce 2003” by the proprietor of Moon, Bruce Breslow, the gent on the left talking to the always animated Mark Matthews.

MK keeps on hitting my little gray cells here…

Ditto - I haven’t seen one like it.

“Luxurious” - it is indeed. Pure syrupy goodness, captured forever.

I don’t think that’s a David Salazar swirl, I believe he signs his works with a “DP Salazar” and date. Might well be a Cuneo Furnace (Steve Maslach) product.

What a dark beauty! “Caramel ribbon swirl with mica” is a mouthful, but I can’t think of a more accurate description, other than “sweet!”

Amazing find and pic. I believe there are only 36 of these known to exist (source, oldraremarbles.com maintained by Jeff & Tammy Baker) and that bowl has some color combinations I hadn’t seen before. Note the size of these rarities is actually always 1-5/8” and the pontils are odd, a slightly raised round & flat cutoff. The base glass is also moonie-like, so that the ‘strikes’ float beautifully in the white ether. Very odd for Germans to be sure, which led to rampant speculation that they were of Asian or other origin. And yes, I’m a (former) owner of one - but I’ve never owned a Blue Galaxy, you pick your poisons lol.

Chad you had posted this in the “Wish” section…for every winner there’s a loser, for every buyer there’s a seller…and yes, I miss this big boy…

Need a better pic of this - not big, just one busy mib

Well, I guess we can put this “short tail” behind us then😉

Take whatever I say with a grain of salt, please…I’ve jokingly said I tell marbles apart by “smell” as I do it more by feel than anything after looking at these things for so many years, and I’ve forgotten a lot over the years. I’ll trust others to correct my errors. Akro did make hand-gathered slags early on, I believe just at their Akron plant. Their white for me tends to be more ‘ethereal’ i.e. less present and heavy than MFC’s, and thus whispier in the base glass. MFC slags were afaik all hand-gathered and machine-rounded, the process invented by M.F. Christensen, and have either a left-(harder to find) or right-hand twist and single cut line. The heavier white tends flow more on the surface and produce stronger, tighter, and frankly more interesting twist patterns.

Big blue MFC

Looks like more are already up and likely on the way, too, unfortunately: https://picclick.com/Vintage-Christensen-Agate-Marble-Black-w-Yellow-Swirls-286887372174.html Rough looking, to be candid.

Wolf this might help give you some basic information on those wild days: https://www.westvirginiamarblecollectorsclub.com/jabo-inc-contract-runs

Or it hit a loose screw head on the roller, or something else that was machined. Just an oddity in manufacturing but I tend to like such misfits.

The classic, uh, “plumber’s crack” captured so beautifully in those first two shots is usually your best friend when finding JABO’s

“Deep oxblood” might be the love language for some of our members here, given the popularity of those that marbles that have it.

Lousy pic of a mist onionskin

Twist & 😀

This unusual faceted pontil onion is my avatar on another board, but pics just don’t do it justice. It came from a Running Rabbit auction nearly 25 years ago and I have yet to find another one like it. (akroarka I love the subsurface bubbles on this one!)