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Put a bowl of ice cubes in front of the fan. It actually helps. A Southerner

Hi Ron! Just finished a couple slices of Pizza too. Great minds. Welcome over!

Unfair! That actually brought tears to my eyes . . .

I thought that Spidermen were red and blue, Supermen were red and blue and yellow (and can have orange, too), and Superboys were red and blue with some orange (but not yellow). So it's the addition of yellow and / or orange that makes the difference? Or is it an NLR thing, too? . . . a NLR that's red / blue / yellow / (and/or orange) is a Superman. But a Rainbo that has the same color scheme is just a Superboy?

We don't have real tomatoes yet up here in the heathen north. Sob.

It looks to me like . . . where the transparent red rises up you get a pinkish color where it overlaps the white. You don't usually see this kind of color bleeding on CACs.

Welcome to the site. Wish I had been at the show!

Kokomo?

Would you see if you could take a picture with a bright light down through the open "pole" so we can get a better look at the oxblood core? That would be interesting, and I would guess it might be able to tell us something about the piece --

I agree with "The precision of the pattern would have been very difficult to achieve in a marble pre-dating the time when most of the handmade German marbles were made 100+ years ago." I don't believe it would have been made in Germany during the time frame of the old Germans, or before. I don't know where else was making glass marbles then. Generally they were being made of agate. Regardless of the decoration -- which I just cannot see as old (1800s) -- I wouldn't call it a marble. Sphere, orb, something of that nature, maybe. But then I don't call anything over 1 1/4" a marble anyway. Too big to play with. And just a note: To some of us ancients, 35 years isn't that long ago! Modern glass artists started making marbles (and orbs and spheres) at least 20 years before that! I even have a few of them. But it certainly is an interesting glass thing, whatever it is, and attractive! The oxblood in the middle is a real puzzler . . .

What he said.

The orange and blue cork is nice.

This is up on ebay now. New one on me. Looks kinda like an experimental Doug Ferguson marble I have. Listed as a "German Guinea?" http://www.ebay.com/itm/291520179777?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT#ht_2164wt_1218

I had a Nailsea glass flask at one time, similar to the one below. But to my knowledge marbles were never made like this -- the size would argue against it too. Even the big old Germans were really shelf-pieces. I'd guess that if it's old, which I'm not sure of, it would be a fancy piece by a Nailsea artist, or something like that -- I don't see any oxblood?

Some of the very wealthy do it . . .

And a Moonie.

Champion Furnace Marble?

Notice how he's still ignoring the "you got to start givin them away" part.

So do I. And your name!

There you go! Thanks Steph!

Oookaaay, nevermind . . .

Huh?

Notice how he's ignoring the redistribution of CAC wealth idea . . .

Yes!

What do you think? (For bigger pictures of mine, the best I can do is post the ebay link -- but they're good views --) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cedarman7-Old-Antique-Vintage-Glass-Wet-Mint-Champion-Agate-Swirl-Marble-/381308344716?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=fTwph5mVOlmqTzelfPhQ0ctq5XM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_389wt_1218