Steph

weird and cool

LOL ... great topic

Wow, the ladies made some pretty marbles.

nice pattern

Frog legs were my final foray into trying unfamiliar kinds of meat. It wasn't the taste which turned me off. It was the fact that I could feel every single individual muscle and couldn't forget I was eating a small animal's leg. If I were in Asia, I know I'd at least be willing to taste new things. But what are the odds I'll ever be in Asia? My bucket list is very short. The only other foreign country I'm hoping still to make it to is Canada.

The pink is pretty at least. The metal-mingled chunk is still pretty cool. It had my mind soaring with thoughts of meteorites until I noticed I had not yet read the post from Thursday night and realized that it's likely industrial. Though wouldn't it be awesome if it turned out to be natural ....

It does look like a corkscrew, but I suspect Vacor. Perhaps I'm wrong. Look closely at the cutlines.

Tequila is the worst thing I've had to drink. Wouldn't make it to the worm.

Also, it's a modern marble and not too hard to come by though that's a somewhat unusual positioning of the vanes.

The cutlines keep me in the Imperial camp.

Limburger cheese

Yeah, maybe a close-up would help ... or a magnifying glass on your end. I'm still thinking as-mades on the white bits. Would take more detail to change what my eye thinks it's seeing.

I can't swear not Master, but my first thought was Asian because of the texture, the little snowflakes near the surface, and that pinched cut mark.

Good book!

Nice to meet you, Eron.

It's complicated. He could be plenty nice. He ended his shock-jock website and reached out to some of the people that he had hurt the worst with the insults there. For example, he apologized to Edna Eaton and as far as I know she felt he was sincere and accepted the apology. Life dealt him some serious blows in his later years and I think he handled them with humility and dignity.

fun fossil

The Bogard version is more of a cats eye than a swirl.

Thanks. As I suspected -- many Japanese marble makers. So Yasuda was one of the largest. But I'm not yet satisfied with everything being called Yasuda. I will keep reading.

It was a Wales type that I saw called Yasuda today. Wales of course was the name on the header, not necessarily the manufacturer. So maybe the manufacturer was Yasuda. But marbles were made in Japan for many decades. And it's great to know one manufacturer ... but hard to believe that's the only one. I know someone has done a bunch of research on it and I'm behind. So is the verdict "actually truly all Yasuda"? Or are all the usual Japanese marbles at least actually truly Yasuda? Or is Yasuda a cool name which is now being used more than it should be?

Are all Japanese marbles now called Yasuda? I'm seeing Yasuda in ID's everywhere but surely that wasn't the only Japanese marble manufacturer?

It's what it looks like -- an ordinary clearie. But the UV does give a clue about what kind of machine it was made on. Marble King seems a good possibility. Remember, the manufacturers were going for the general appearance in their mass-produced toys. Not worrying about colors of their clearies not being perfectly blended.

You bought it, right?!

Welcome. I am seeing mostly Marble King and Akro. But also some Vitro abd maybe foreign on that very last marble. If you post small groups and start a separate thread for each group, it will be easier to keep track and get IDs.

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