Steph

The Joemarbles.com domain expired and was auctioned to someone else. I bid on it but it went too high. I'm curious -- does the domain now belong to anyone in our marble family? Jason and I had a heads-up that the beloved site might go down again and we were prepared this time. Jason is now hosting a copy of the site on his domain. We definitely did not want to lose this material. Joe put a lot of effort into this. I know personally because I helped him with the company articles and general moral support while he was getting it ready to go online. ❤️ It is possible that some changes could be made, in the form of updates to company information for example. If that happens we will do it in a way which respects Joe's work. I know that philosophically he would be supportive of updates. He had wanted to host a copy of Marble Alan's ID pages on his site -- like Craig Snider has -- but Joe planned for his version to reflect current information known to the marble community and he wanted to fill in some blanks in Alan's photos. He wanted me to help him with that and sadly I dropped the ball. So I'm happy at least to have been able to be part of preserving Joe's site for future collectors to benefit from. Without further ado, here is Joemarbles.com Home Page (marbleconnection.com)

It's busy enough to be an Alley. ???

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I'm leaning strongly in the direction of Peltier NLR.

Ohhh ... the fossil wasn't shown yet. I had thought it was the limestone below the photo of the paper. Cool fossil.

I don't remember the name "beach ball" used for these. But it probably has been! It would fit. Beach ball is a popular name for different marbles from different makers. "Triple cross-through" is how I would say it. And yes, uncommon and desirable. From Japan, circa 1960's.

Gorgeous. I'm 100% on board with it being a member of the Peltier Citrus family. Maybe a Liberty Citrus?

Marble King did a lot of shades of cat's eye in their modern runs. With some highly irregular ribbons. This green looks right for them. I don't remember seeing anything _THAT_ irregular, but they had quite a lot of variation. And I also remember little hunks of aventurine flakes ... which it looks like I might be seeing in this marble. Tommy is all the coloring green? I am picturing some of the strands as white ... but is there really any white there?

Akro on left, Master on right.

I couldn't remember if I have that book from 1973 ... but I didn't see it when I glanced at the place where most of my marble books are stored. So I found one cheap online and it's on the way now. Maybe I'll end up with two.

I think this is it. Limestone. It sounds like it's a complicated mix of broken up shells and bones of animals, but can also contain more complete looking fossils imbedded in all the crushed up remains. irvmat.com - Portland - What is Limestone

Wow ... some stunning stone there. The plain off-white lake Michigan fossil is what I find a lot of on beach walks. I've saved a few. One day I'd like a big crystal -- say six inches tall -- for display in the living room.

I think you could be onto something now. MK's with that purple shade come don't seem to care much about where those ribbons are placed at the seams. So then add a little twist where the marble got snagged at some point in the process ... and yeah. I think MK is the leading contender.

Pretty good feeling about Master on the bottom. Weird on the top one. A medium-length flattish seam, with a purple ribbon on both sides of the seam. Looks like you're basically showing the same seam in each photo, rotated a little but still with that one seam in view. What does the other end of the marble look like?

I'm playing catch-up on marble threads. This one gave me two thoughts, both in the cat's eye category. Wild modern Marble King cat's eye. Or European cat's eye. So, I really don't know, and Ric could be on point with Akro. But those are the thoughts which occurred to me due to the shade and the shape of the green, plus the odd white.

Woot! Woot! Earth 2.0 doing us vintage people proud!

Well, Kokomo got the machines from Peltier, and then made marbles resembling Peltier Rainbos. That was my standard "playing it safe" reply for marbles which look like Peltier Rainbos but something a little off. Now I have to think of a new one. William, thanks for the extra seam shots. Ron said Pelt over on that other thread, so I'll say the needle tips more strongly toward Pelt here too. Happy Easter to you too!

Fun find! I wonder if they there would be different games from what kids play or played here ... and if they are historically based games or new inventions by school teachers or whatnot.

1. This goes with the two in your other thread that I can be sure were made on a Peltier Rainbo machine, but I'm not sure which state the machine was in. Illinois or Indiana. It's a Peltier or a Kokomo. 2. I think Jabo here. 3. At 3/4", with that pattern, I'll say Alley.

I can't tell if the top is old or new. I could see it going either way. The bottom two were made on Peltier Rainbo machines, but they look non-typical enough to me to make me wonder if those Peltier machines might have happened to be at the Kokomo factory. When in doubt choose Peltier over Kokomo ... but I would like to see more straight on seam shots of those two.

Hmmmm, indeed!

I heard back from Paula. It wasn't Novas. It was Cosmic Rainbows that she wrote and article about.

Be careful about white-based marbles which look like WV swirls which come in groups where all the rest are Vacor. Check out these Old Fashions. DETAILED INFORMATION (billes-en-tete.com)

Royal on the left. Moss Agate on the right.

I'm thinking Akro.