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Thought it might be fun to show you something I do for fun. I look for marbles that appear to have letters or numbers in them. Here are one sample of each letter and number in my collection:

Very nice Ann! Great pix!

Ponds cold cream is a company not a type of glass I am afraid. If you knew the type of glass , say vitrolite, then it would be a vitrolite marble made by the Pond's cold cream company. I am going to stop posting about this topic because it is going in circles. I understand why the collectors are feeling the way the feel - I get it. Thanks for the discussion and I really do appreciate the debate. Rich

not true Ron and jeeperman... If Jabo used Fenton glass - it IS a fenton marble made BY Jabo If Sammy's Mountain Marble uses Fenton glass - it IS a Fenton marble made by Sammy's Mountain Marble If Alley used Vitrolite glass - it IS a vitrolite marble made by Alley If Alley used Wissmach,Beer Bottles,Wine Bottles,Houze,Auto Tail Light lens, etc, etc, etc, - it is a Wissmach,Beer Bottles,Wine Bottles,Houze,Auto Tail Light lens Marble made by Alley If CAC used CAC glass - it IS a CAC marble made by CAC If Rich uses original cullet from any of the4se old companies - it IS a ___ (fill in the blank) marble made by rich Stop your deceit (emotional) thing about me and try by understanding logical thinking. It DOES matter what glass they used is my point. They were deceiving you by not calling the name of the marble correctly! Ron "Is every marble you have made from Alley or CAC cullet(shards) in your own private collection today?" - YES I DO NOT SELL MY OLD GLASS REMELTS!!!!! winnie - "sorry,I can't believe it,that you think this way,but it's free to believe whatever you want." it is ok you can't believe it - go on and keep believing what it is you need to believe but fact is fact

I agree with you winnie. Thanks for posting your opinion. I hope you don't get blasted as I did!

Oh THAT direct question! You give great examples of avoiding direct questions yourself that I got caught up in your game. I consider using CAC and Alley original glass as reworked cullet/shard marbles and therefore they are CAC and Alley marbles since the original glass was from the CAC and Alley companies. But what does that mean to you? I don't sell ANY of these cullet marbles anyway! I don't give a rip what eBay sellers do - none of them get any of my CAC or Alley marbles to sell anyway! These are MINE - period! To rework a piece of cullet to make one marbles takes about 5 minutes or so. No, I don't know that song??? As far as the car example is concerned, I'll listen to the guys next door at my industrial unit that restore old cars - they tell me it's a 1930 Ford.

I have a problem with the word, "remelt." Remelt infers the glass was a marble to begin with and I repaired it back into another marble. I took shards of glass that in no way, shape or form resembles a marble and rounded them off. Question: did CAC or Alley use glass they made to make marbles? Not also that plain or that simple! I don't give any power to a TV show - it is a bunch of paid actors repeating memorized lines. I chatted with people that restore old cars and these people agreed with me it would be considered a 1930's Ford car.

Moved??? Why is that - here I thought we were having a good discussion about an interesting topic and now it gets threatened to be moved? bumblebee - consider this... Let's say I found a 1930 car kit that was originally made by a Ford company and bought it in 2013. I assemble the car kit in 2013. It is still an old car since I used the original car parts made in the 30's?

Thanks - I am not trying to copy old work but just melt the old glass.

William - this whole thing (CAC + ALLEY) is meant not to prove anything but how people treat the hobby with this rule and that - whatever method they want to make the rules we must all follow. Life isn't like that but they can't see the forest for the trees! Bottom line - collect what looks good to you - you'll be happier. BTW, you got only one marble right - one of the 3 is old. Now, which one?

You'll never know Galen! Keep guessing and stirring the pot - it's all good. What Jeepreman said!

You'll never know Galen! I don't sell my cullet marbles AS I HAVE TOLD YOU SEVERAL TIMES Galen - they go into my own collection. And again, 3 are from the old company and the rest use OLD cullet that the company tossed into the ground. Bet you can't correctly guess which are old in this set either! The point is - it is actual real glass that the company used so it is a marble made from their actual glass - it what it is!

Galen - I gotcha this time!!!! Not such an expert are we...lol 3 are from the old factory and the rest are from REAL actual old CAC cullet glass that was dug from the company's dump that I made. Betcha you can't tell correctly which are old and which are new!

Like any?

like any?

Just look at us!

I HATE people that steal as you can see.

At Friday market where I sell marbles, some ass-wipe stole a $25 marble when I had 8 other people in my booth. I hope the person fries in hell!

I'd be pleased too!

especially with your scary face Sami! ...lol

Mica Alternate Names: Isinglass, Muscovite, Biotite, Phlogopite Oxide Analysis Formula K2O 11.80% 1.00 Al2O3 38.40% 3.01 SiO2 45.30% 6.02 LOI 4.50 Oxide Weight 762.38 Formula Weight 798.31 Enter the formula and formula weight directly into the Insight MDT dialog (since it records materials as formulas). Enter the analysis into an Insight recipe and enter the LOI using Override Calculated LOI (in the Calc menu). It will calculate the formula. Stable, virtually inert except to hydroflouric and concentrated sulfuric acid. Impervious to water and atmosphere. Unaffected by exposure to UV light, water or extended low and high temperatures (up to 1800C). Free of asbestos and other non-asbestos fibrous materials. It is non-flammable, non-toxic and non-hazardous. Mica is invaluable in the electrical and electronics industries because of its unique combination of physical, chemical and thermal properties, low power loss factor, dielectric constant and dielectric strength. Also used in insulation, paint, metalurgical, and polymers. Mica is used in low fire clay bodies to add a sparkle effect. Since it melts just below 2000F its use for this purpose is limited to below cone 02. Water washed micas are superior for this purpose. While this technique has been employed by various potters it is actually an old process. For more information about its history, see the book "All That Glitters" (available at www.axner.com). Data sheets for various mica products quote a wide range of decomposition and melting temperatures (as high as 1800C for melting and 1500C for decomposition). A typical melting point of muscovite is around 1250-1300C. However there are many different kinds of mica. Thus it is impossible to give a formula and difficult to give a general chemistry (micas are never employed in ceramics for their chemistry anyway, the mineralogy of the material is what is important).

ok, if the buyer can always get the money back from PayPal, does PayPal guarantee the seller will get the item back? Or eBay for that matter? If either does not guarantee the seller gets back the item, what is to stop a low-life from just keeping the item after getting the money back? Who pays for the return of the item - the seller or the buyer/ I don't sell on eBay so if these questions are too simple, just ignore them.