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mmmm...aventurine:lol:

One of the reasons you probably don't see too many "Master" threads is they can be hard to tell apart. Between sparklers and foreign marbles they can look a lot alike. The larger sizes with the orange peely surface you see on some foreign marbles.

A couple more that could be Vitro's. The good part about going through the "could be a Vitro" pile is I found a mib with what looks like blue avent (pretty beat though). Now it's looking more like a pelt.

I skipped most of this enjoying popcorn, still felt the need to post something, because- hey! (looking for my fav popcorn emoticon)

The only one in my pic that might have something close to Ox is not visible in the pic. The rest are kind of a reddish/brown which probably looks different in the pic. For all I know the one in the top left with the yellow tail could be an Akro the more I look at it. Pop Culturs pic shows at least one that looks like a Pelt (the white/blue/red), but most of the rest could be Vitro's with another angle. Oxblood and aqua is a dynamic color combo for sure.

These likely could be Vitro imho. lol ...I hope

Some nice popeye's so far, I can see why - everyone's favorites just happen to be killer. The first one I got, nothing out of the ordinary, a yellow on blue is still my favorite. Probably since it was one of the first machine mades I could identify as a "sort" or "type" of marbles.

Not to laugh at somebody spending $6K on a marble, but I have found some humor in the posts. Yoda lol

nice way of capturing the "shadow" in the last pic ziggy

Some of these probably aren't Alley's, but I think a few of them are

Happy B-day Leroy,

This pic I had on file was probably what made me say "oven brick" at first, but there's no doubt to me the original marble posted is an old one. I was concentrating more on the sulphide vs. debris aspect more than the possibility of a newer marble.

Seeing it in hand would no doubt help! My first observation wasn't meant to get too far along the "oven-brick-road". lol (unless it's like 5/8's or some ridiculous small size) I've heard and seen some weird unidentifiable stuff ending up in handmades, anything's possible, and cool stuff like that gives me a kick.

That's pretty cool either way, a sulphide figure fitting in a cane cut marble? Trying to remember the last time I saw a sulphide with two pontils How big is that oddity anyhow?

That piece of "oven brick" sure looks like a dog!

Those are some big catfish. What sort of rig are catching those?

Handmades can seem to have have that relaxing quality,

Nice find and great size! Same Cane too? Wow, some look blue-er base glass than others.lol

That's pretty cool what you did with the machine. For people that haven't actually seen one in person, what are we looking at for overall size? Are both sets of rollers "operational" or do you just use one at a time?

A couple more handmades etc in the theme of Red, white & blue. Batteries went before I could include a peewee Pelt liberty for scale. Looks like a nice Submarine there 1Dans

All I remember about those speckled ones is they seemed to chip a lot easier on the playground. Probably had a lot to do with the size/mass since they're larger marbles. Don't see them around much, but the ones I had were big and chipped.

Nice sample box, looks very well cared for, wow.

No time to type, looking at my nails lol :Happy_050: I'd take a nice mib over a nail any day of the week. Must be a forest for the trees kind of thing.

That's a good hunk of Mica and those are some big perch! We'll see if the fish treat me as good next week, hopefully some walleye and Pike can be had

Some flames to help toast things up until it gets warmer. Old pic but still "toasty"