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Nope. Not as close as I had been hoping. Yours is more chocolately than mine. And much more translucent. Mine has just a touch of translucence visible around the edges.

I strongly disagree. This is a myth that just won't go away. It's not just you. The Moss Agate you show is from the 1930's. And Akro corkscrews were introduced in 1930. Possibly in production in 1929, but not in 1922. Ira Freese was gone from Akro before the Moss Agates and corkscrews were made so there are no pre-freese Moss Agates or corkscrews. Some have lashes because the shears were dull. Not because they were made before Ira Freese fixed the mechanism.

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Yeah, as a single seam CAC it could be called a diaper fold.

Ah, I thought you had the answer. Want me to tell you what I think it is?

Marble King Rainbow?

*heading out to my Pelt patch box to see if I have a match*

A tray full of fiber optic peewees

Oh ... speaking of Germans .... little lutzes

Yes, Red Angel is very specific. Here's are pictures of three colors of angels which Westcoast Dave posted in the gallery. (If there are more colors, I am unaware.) The custard base is very important. And they have (at least) six ribbons. Four yellow and two of the special color -- in your case red.

I heard them called Bruisers. Not common. Best I can say.

But Champion does seem a good guess ... it has a sort of furnace-y essence. Part of me hoped it was a Christensen transparent swirl ... Champion seems more likely by the odds.

Not an MFC nine. (Not the handgathered nine-and-tail.) CAC for me.

Solid vote for Akro.

Awesome display! .... so ... how ya feeling?

Hello. Welcome. Don't know if there are any company sites left to dig at, with or without permission. Ron has done a LOT of digging over the years. If there's anything left, he would know. @wvrons

I don't know. @sarab is pretty brave. She might already have come up with a plan on what to try. Mike didn't give details -- just water soluble liquid polymer floor wax. Do you have a cleaning supplies store? Maybe you could call your local school and ask them about how to get supplies. Of course they would buy in bulk. Gosh, I don't know. I'd be doing a lot of label reading, asking employees, etc. And experimenting on a less important marble to start with. I was leaning toward hardware. The tire store? I'm going to guess that the polishes which they would have wouldn't be water soluble. But that's just a guess. Here's a list of polishes you could read the descriptions of. One of them might promise to be water soluble: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=water+soluble+polymer+floor+wax&ref=nb_sb_noss

Charming keepsake. I know how to do it.

I would like one. Just one. But I still haven't settled on which one to get.

One of my earliest most joyous marble memories was getting a stocking full of marbles for Christmas 1976, which included many sizes of clearies -- some super small. I'm pretty sure they came from a Champion Bicentennial bag, but was told the marbles were probably Alley. LOL. No pictures -- you all know what clearies look like -- just a happy memory.

DAS = Dave's Appalachian Swirls, which is Dave McCullough's current operation. They're modern marbles in special investor runs, continuing a tradition that Dave started when he was at Jabo. Don't know about "sponsored". Is that showing up on the DAS listings? Then that could be the name of the group investing in the run. As to Ruby Bee and such, a lot of sellers see a catchy name and then wrongly apply it to their marbles. Little rhyme or reason, buyer beware. @wvrons would be a good person to talk ghosts with us. I have a vague idea involving the cloudy translucent glass -- ghostly right? -- but Ron has specifics.

Beautiful. And I don't know who made it. Just that it's very pretty.

Peltier slag on the blue. Single seam on the green? I suppose that could lean toward Christensen. I have single seamers from other makers, but the marble already had Christensen possibilities, so that might add up. I don't know what clues a green glow in the green glass might give us. WV swirl on the gray. Not quite making out patch (?) shape and seam shape on the red. (I'm presuming patch, but not even sure of that so far. )

With that cutline and side stripe, we're still in Master or foreign territory. I can't swear it's not German. I'm not aware of that as a German style. Would lean toward Asian ... but could very well have been imported to Germany.

Oh no! Never had them but watched my husband suffer. I hope the ordeal is over soon.