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orbboy

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  1.  For sure there are way more purple and green colored marbles over here. I'll see what I can dig up.

     Here is the biggest Sparkler I have. The rest in the group are 1 1/8" or a bit under.  Not sure how small they go 5/8"ish I guess. I'll look.

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  2.  Looking at your pics of the pontil I would have to think it is faceted. Look really close with a loop and you might be able to see near imperceptible little angles on the smoothed part.  Hard to see them in the pic but it looks like they should be there. The light reflection on the marble may shift and bend when hitting those angles as well depending on how big they are.  It is a tiny marble but they should still show.

     As to your question of does rare mean valuable? In a nutshell no.  After near 18 years selling marbles on ebay I found that a value of a marble is what people are willing to spend. It seems that eye appeal has more to do with value sometimes.  I'm pretty sure that serious collectors  of this type would love to own this one, and would bid. How much they would go is a ??? If listed properly on ebay with nice pics it would garner some interest for sure, but would not sell for as much as one with say oxblood and eggyolk the same size.

     Attached is a pic showing what a light reflection will look like on a facet. The right side one shows the full circle of the light reflection. The one on the left I shifted the angled part to make the reflection change. If that makes sense.

     

     

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  3.  Still a burnt Vacor Sunset.  This pic from your first i.d request shows a light "orange peel" surface and typical wrinkles on larger Vacor. The fact you are from southern Ontario, a mecca for big Vacor marbles is another contributor. Finally as I said before I have seen these before. Not with as much brown as yours though.

     

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  4.  I find it amusing to think that the original maker of this marble was just a lazy slob. Otherwise he/she would have swept off their workstation before making marbles. Probably only lasted a few weeks on the job before getting sacked.

     Whomever it was though produced one of the most unique marbles we have ever seen.

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