Steph

In 2019, I got this brilliant advent calendar from so many of our marble friends here, some named, some secret, with a compartment of marbles to open each day leading up to Christmas. Pictures posted here: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/25222-advent-calendar-suddenly-i-am-in-the-holiday-spirit And many more treasures along the way. I have much to bump this thread with. Some of my first gifts came from Carole Shockley and Diane Wise (forum name Dejapa), who both have passed on.

I have so many. In 2104, these marbles showed up in a box on my porch with a fake name as the return address. I suspect Mike Barton was involved in the surprise. He was quick to make sure I saw the "blue base pearlescent patch" in this picture, and in later years he would refer a couple of times to how good I know he is at keeping secrets. I could only guess he was talking about this one.

You'll land on your feet. My neighbor stuck it out with a company which was bought out and was going to for sure be closing its doors. As her coworkers left and parts of the plant went quiet, she mused on what she would do after she finally had to go. But the final closure kept being pushed down the road. It's five years later now and the few who stuck around are still working there. I think ownership changed hands again. The company isn't making what it used to be, but another function was found for it.

Tricky. I'm seeing a little bit of clear in the first one. But probably not enough to consider it a Popeye. The texture of the white is also puzzling me. It doesn't look like I expect in a Popeye, but doesn't necessarily look like what I expect in a Tri-Color Agate. The second is also a bit tricky. The base looks like it might be a very dark transparent, so maybe Akro sold it as an Onyx.

Chad and I were posting at the same time ... with the same conclusion.

Hi. Welcome. Possibly Christensen Agate on the first. The second looks like it might be on the other side of the age spectrum and might be part of one of the contract runs done after 2007 by Jabo or D.A.S. or a related enterprise.

I spent so much time in a closet with my blacklight that I got a tan on my forearm from how I was holding the light!

Whoa!!!!! Thanks Josh! Crazy cool marble! Still go with Ron when all things are equal ... but be glad that other people still feel free to jump in with their info! LOL

Well, this is about ball mills: Ball mill - Wikipedia I tried to find a standard link which is used to explain the Atlanta/Tennessee marble hoax, but it's not coming up for me in Google. Maybe someone else knows the link. Here's an old old thread I posted on the subject ... linking to other threads which probably aren't there anymore. https://marbleconnection.com/topic/6908-mostly-pix-fake-chinas-tennesseeatlanta-porcelains It's definitely time for a new thread with more direct information, better pix and fewer external links. After I made that thread the kinds of decorations that we encountered on the mill balls has expanded. But I still don't recognize yours. So if yours does turn out to be one, then the designs have expanded a little farther.

I don't actually recognize the color pattern from any era, whether antique or whether a style favored by the mill ball hoaxers. I'm going purely by the look of the surface crazing.

The crazing on this one makes me think you may have a used industrial mill ball which someone decorated to try to make it look like an antique marble. At 1/2" or less, I'm up in the air. I don't remember seeing the hoax mill ball marbles being so small. Does it feel light like clay, or a bit heavier .... (The industrial mill balls tend to have a heavy feel relative to their size.)

I'm sorry you saw her poisonous post. We fixed the problem as fast as we could. I hoped you managed to miss it altogether.

Interesting! Hanvntlostem, Ron (wvrons) is the king of marble ID's. I had hoped he would weigh in. At this point I had been sitting on the fence between Akro and Marble King, in spite of my early Vitro thought. When in doubt go with whatever Ron says. One last note: We never asked the size. That is often helpful for an ID.

Actually that is an interesting thought, which would put the marble a couple of decades later. Nice marble. Too many choices.

I too am leaning toward Vitro Tri-Lite. Estimate 1930's on the date whether it turns out to be Vitro or something else such as Akro.

Awwwww ... thank you

I really really really wish I could find my marble that had a cursive S. The marble is probably gone forever but a picture of it probably still exists ......

I'm leaning Master.

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Pelt to me. Looks related to the Tootsie Roll.

Multicolor Rainbo

Loved 'em to pieces. But imagine lying down on the couch to watch TV with those two both on your chest. My old body is looking forward to being the lifetime perch of lighter weight sweethearts.

When they were a little younger.

Here's a pic of my last two "kittens" ... back in 2004 or so ... when they were four-years-old.

My kiddos will turn 11 weeks old tonight. Have had them for a month. I'm making myself get a little practice with the video on my cellphone before they get too big. Big is relative here. I think they'll stay small as far as cats go. Punkin was only 1.5 pounds at the 10 week weigh-in. Bear was 2.5, so she's still in normal range, but their parents are pretty small. I'm used to some gigantic cats. I'm looking forward to cats that will stay small enough to share lap room. If you watch on fullscreen you can see some pretty good detail on Punkin's forelegs. Edit: oh yes, I forgot the video shows up pretty big already in Marble Connection's format.