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Sure. Happy Haloween!

I'd go for that. If so, then it would be one of the sought-after German ground pontils usually associated with the Greiner family. I think some of our terminology is confusing. As I understand it >> "Fire-polished" is today mostly associated with contemporary marble makers, I think. It essentially obliterates any trace of a pontil. Is this right, Migbar? If you're around? "Melted pontil" is associated with the American marbles produced by Harvey Leighton in several locations (Navarre, Barberton, etc.), and you can generally see that heat has been applied to the cut-off point of a marble, enough to make the roughened glass "sink" back into the body of the marble. It can look like a very low smooth wart; sometimes there is carbon "staining" around it. I doubt if any marble pontils either here or in Germany were ground, then polished (reheated). Not worth the cost of the process, By the 1880s or so, the German makers seemed to have stopped even grinding their pontils, for economic reasons . . .

Yep, I shudda kept quiet. Can't tell about that pontil.

Maybe I should keep quiet too eggyolk. Check the pontil closely -- it may be a very-well-faceted ground pontil. If so I'd go for German, one of the Greiner ones people used to call Leighton. Those colors were used in those. If it's really fire-polished I'd be surprised, but less so if it were melted. I suppose it's possible for it to be American / Leighton. But maybe Barberton, with those colors. I don't remember seeing more than two colors very often in Leightons. Like I have a case full of them at home.

What he ^^^ says.

Uhhhh . . . is this another one of those "I have some swampland in Floridfa" stories? You know you're in for a buncha "cry wolf" crap now right? All is forgiven, of course, but those wall marbles . . .

I've seen it on Alleys too. But (so far) only on dark colors, and not in association with aventurine . . .

<<<<<<<< scooching over to make room for Winnie . . .

Yep. I would pick that for Galen's animal. Hey, he said it first! I wouldn't really pick this for me, but I really really like his teeth . . .

I just got three marbles from the 2010 Frankie run to join the sole example I had. I like 'em a lot.

But how many oranges from California will it be carrying?

Yes. I like Fatima's name better, so I'll go with her.

Oh yes. Terrible ones. Mathematical word problems were the bane of my otherwise sunny childhood. >Shudder<

Juss hangin behine your horsie here, man. Nice horsie. Hey. I know those guys.

My People!

. . . and except we don't care so much any more.

Did I say ringer? Ummmm. I meant Ace. Really. I did.

You just made something go click in my head! I love it when that happens. A couple of years ago I got my first ringer (black cork in opalescant/clear) and was happy with that . . . there are some marbles I just want examples of, without getting hung up in every variation, so I try for a nice one and call it quits. But then early this year I saw . . . a yellow one. First time I had seen what I had understood was a Ringer in a color other than black. So I got it as a pet for my black one. Never occurred to me to think of them as Moss Agates . . . but I will from here on out -- thanks, Steph!

Not even near the hook! Wow!

Anybody got pics?

I should have said that too. And I forgot hubcaps. Started off with just found hubcaps -- the ones you used to see by the side of the road -- and then wound up with some classics (profile of Mercury, a Plymouth hubcap with a clipper ship, a reflector-studdied Caddy, etc.) The silver-age comics went with the housemate many years ago. I forget what I got instead. Boy am I sorry. (Favorites: Dr. Strange, Thor).

On my inactive collection list (unless I stumble across something I can afford and can't live without) are . . . small crystalline mineral specimens (micro-mounts); tropical & sub-tropical sea shells; toy horses made before 1960; Hartland Plastics western figures on their horses (Big Champs & Small Champs); containers (mostly basketry and wood) from New Guinea, Borneo, Sumatra, etc., with a few thrown in from Africa. My two unfortunately-active things are trade beads (African and Asian trade) and marbles. I've been accused of collecting purses and shoes, but I don't count those. Galen, I like your bird prints. And Killer, that's killer art glass!

I think it has an S between the seams too. Shucks. It's a beauty, Winnie. Wouldn't mind having yours either, Galen.

OMG. I just remembered why I used to collect rocks. I could only afford the tiny ones (called micromounts) but they sure are purty. Still have them. Of those shown, I have a small (about the size of an egg) version of the cubed fluorite and a little vanadinite. Damn.