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Well, that's how it all starts out, for sure -- lumping like things together. But then you have this big lump of things that have something in common, This is the point where things can get sticky. And splitty. Because then it depends on what you want out of the information you're trying to suck out of the lump. I'm not sure I like that image I'll think about a better one . . . .

Me too . . .

Nice!

Why not? Let us know what you get!

Me too. Me either. At least a couple of years ago, though, I think . . .

What she ^^^^ said. Times eleventy hundred. But then I'm an art historian and therefore a splitter, by definition . . . Nice little calligraphy peewee, Ric!

What he ^^^^^ said.

The center one is the only one I can think of as a calligraphy marble. I won't say a calligraphy marble absolutely has to be opaque because I have two that have translucent bases and the white or light ribbons that are on the surface look like they could have been produced with a calligraphy pen. Very little to none of them are visible in the translucent base -- it's thick enough to cause that effect. Sort of like the one on the right, But to me the one on the right is not a calligraphy marble . . . "just" a nice very squiggly one. The one on the left below I'd call a wirepull or wirepull's cousin (too much visible in 3D). Jus' sayin.'

OK. Henri. It's new name is Henri.

My understanding as well.

Blizzard tornado!

Here's a friend --

Oh, I did, never fear. But I admit it gave me pause to go from thinking of myself as a person who had 3 Jolly Green Giants to a person who "only" had 2. I think it helped when one zaboo was selling went past my "reasonable/possible" marble money point, and I had to accept that I was NOT going to be able to think of myself as a person who had 4 . . . After all, "Oh well, what do I need with four" is not that far from "what do I need with three." My two remaining ones will be buried with me under my pyramid.

Not to my knowledge. But I've gotten the impression that it may be the same glasshouses . . . just later in date, or/and made specifically for the English market (in solitaire sets). That's the most I've heard/seen/read about them. Any of our European collectors know anything? That would be interesting --

Nice! Types you don't usually see in English colors! Well, I don't anyway. Just the usual solid core ones.

>> waiting for pics of the purple cats <<

JGG is one of my favorites. Just traded one away, because that would still leave me with two. For AV fans, here's a close-up of one (not my pic)

He started with The Soda Line!

YES! Never seen any 1" nine-vanes!

Yep, I see mostly American marbles too.

Eeeeeeeeee . . . ..

So that was my problem. I kept playing marbles.

Isn't there a Green Fizz? That would fit in the soda line too. If only I had one. I'll have a Cream Soda, please.

So did I!!

Anybody can name any marble anything they want. Doesn't mean I have to call it that. And I don't think I've ever bought a marble because it was "named." If it was (to use Vernwood's example) a rainbow with Mountain Dew colors and I thought the marble was pretty, I would buy it. Not because I "needed a Mountain Dew." But that may just be me. I vote for naming one "Bruce." I kinda like "the soda line" of rainbos . . .