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Blanket party? I smell a smotherin' comin' on . . .

Great pics, Sprinkles!

This guy has been selling under mikesWVmarbles, mikeswestvirginiamarbles, and other combinations like that, for several years. If I'm not mistaken, there's a thread concerning him in the "Trouble with Triffids -- er -- ebay dealers" thread on this board. But this seems like the worst of a long line of bad sales for him --

Wow . . .

Hooters I know. But what's "the SEMA show?"

I think we do. Consider me begging. Throw in a whine while you're at it.

Uh, wait, let me think about it. Hmm. YES.

I like 'em too, especially those last ones . . .

Looks like some might be (although they might be the Japanese pinch-pontil types), but others look more like just basic machine-made swirls, at least in this photo. FWIW.

Wow, I totally missed those . . . not that I could have kept up in the bidding if I'd seen them! But I would have given it a shot - - - You hardly ever even see ONE gutta percha marble for sale.

Yep -- The ones I knew about now appear hotter than heck, instead of just hot; some glow green that didn't, with my old (tiny, cheap) UV light, and others, for the first time, are glowing orange. Didn't think I had any of those.

Don't know -- but I have UV examples from Akro (lots), Alley (not so many), and Christensen (not so many). But I just got a new UV light and discovered that some of the Akro mibs I thought weren't UV were, so I'm going to go back through everything and hope for some more nice surprises --

Thanks, Lou! Nice mibs!

Can't see 'em. Me no do facebook.

OMG

What he said. Hi migbar!

I couldn't agree with you more! And congratulations, or condolences, whichever is appropriate!

What he said, mainly experience -- but I've found that the white in the swirls usually looks more like a thick-ish ribbon, in contrast with the much more variable white (thick, thin, stringy, filmy) in slags.

Only Akro, Peltier, & Christensen produced machine-made slags. Slag production probably stopped sometime between 1928 - 1930.

What they all said. Maglight, black light, walk on in!

Wow -- that's interesting. It certainly raises the possibility that genuine red benningtons exist.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! It's John Wayne Gacy! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (you could send me that nice onionskin if you wanted to.)

Yea, I know a lot of the "fancy" ones, especially, have been made in the last few years -- and some of them are pretty good. The color and surface of the green one you picture isn't anything like the green ones I have or have seen . . . and I have no clue about the red. I'd WANT to believe it was old, but I'm not sure the chances are very good that it is. It's the kind of super-rare color that might make it worth it to someone to fake, and, as Galen said, there's been a lot of that going around. The brown & blue ones are too common to be worth faking. Long way of saying "Gee, I don't know!"

Well, I've never seen a red one . . . got a pic? Brown most common (like 75%), then blue (maybe 20%), with most of the remainder being "fancy" ones that are mottled white / green / blue / brown to varying degrees. Blue with additional pink is rare, as is green and one that's a mottled blue-green. There are some other colored glazed marbles (all pretty rare) but most people don't consider them to be "benningtons" because they don't have the bennington "eyes." Some of those are solid pink, green, black . . . RED red, or brown red?

FWIW, it was the same in 1950s eastern North Carolina . . .