Steph

mmmmm shiny

no thank you

I've been stimulating the economy by buying some items from a couple of my favorite online sellers. I have two more specially chosen rocks on the way from my mineral guy but I can't wait for them. Have to post now. Mostly I want to show off my new stoneware pieces from Panthertown. Marbles and a pendant. (Along with one my earlier Panthertown favorites.) I go to the dish every now and then and lift the lid and just smile. ❤️ P.s., the carnelian bullseye agate is an older piece from my marble collection, and the polkadotty sphere is fossilized fish eggs newly arrived from @mmuehlba I think I'm pretty close to considering the bowl perfect. *delighted squeal* ❤️❤️❤️

Bump! Anyone else interested? Or dabbling on the corner of maybe being interested?

I can't clearly make out the colors on the handmade but I believe there are too many for it to be a gooseberry and too few for it to be a Joseph's Coat. Also I think the base of a gooseberry should be a yellow shade. Also, I think there are probable other pattern differences that a Joseph's Coat might have. Possibly I should know the name it actually is but I have a blindspot on handmade names. @I'llhavethat1 ... what do you think?

The pink-champagne-based corkscrew is an Akro. And it's luscious. Not gooseberry or Joseph's Coat on the German handmade.

Elizabeth Kempski has a newly published book called The World of Cat's Eye Marbles. Cost is $19.95 plus shipping. If you'd like to get one sooner rather than later, she has posted information in the cat's eye group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/880443685378420/ For those who don't use Facebook, they will be going on sale on eBay in two weeks. Seller name: pinx43 Elizabeth's statement about the book: The book measures 8 1/2 by 11” and is 80 pages in length with over 150 photos. I did quite a bit of research on foreign marbles that I think will be of interest to even non-cat’s eye collectors, including an interview with the chairman of Matsuno Industries, the makers of the Camel brand Japanese marbles. For the U.S. companies, Mike Johnson, a co-author of American Machine-Made Marbles, generously shared source material on cat’s eyes that did not make it into their book. For newbies who want help with identification, I developed a chart of characteristics for each of the most common types of cat’s eyes that will serve as a quick reference. For hard core history buffs, there is also an Appendix with a timeline of Asian production from the 1940s through the 1980s. This is based on my research plus my experience in the 1980s working for a U.S. company importing sporting goods from Asia, including visits to factories there. In short, I think the book has something for every level of collector.

Is there a story with the score?

I'll put this in the main forum to see if we can get more contemp guru eyes on it.

Well, the pictures are back for the most part. Thread format is an even worse hodgepodge than it was before with some pictures at Imgur and most still at Photobucket. But we have pictures. Photobucket finally wore me down and I decided I'll pay their monthly fee for now. That gave me room to return the Akro pictures I had removed. And fortunately they didn't automatically randomize the picture names when they reloaded them. So yay!

Though I'm a long timer, my collection is modest. So my contribution might also be modest, but I'll try to make it interesting!

I'm in on whatever anyone decides. But I admit I'm not clear on what you're envisioning. Jason? @bumblebee

I almost sewed a button on yesterday! LOL. But it turned out the shirt needed three buttons and I only had two spare ones. I might yet sew on a button before this week is out. I cut up some some old items for a rag bag. I used some of them to clean. I'm going to write letters sometime in the next three days. Have been planning them in my head. I have started my garden by a window in the attic. It's so very cold outside yet. I've done some running -- ran 4.4 miles one evening. A personal record.

very cute

On top I'll go with Jabo and Master. On bottom, probably WV swirls. Champion sounds good on the right.

Not used to saying "stay safe" on Easter. That's usually more of a driving in winter weather thing, but here we are. Stay safe. And I hope you're finding satisfying things to stay busy with.

Funny how I post these things and it takes forever ... like ten years ... for me to think about checking to see how hard it would be to acquire them. Finally it did occur to me, so I sauntered over to eBay, and they're comfortably in the "fun money" zone.

I'm pretty sure that's the case. I think Bonnie was hopeful they had a name anyway, as well as being interested in some broader discussion of the topic.

I feel strange ... almost as if I have superpowers. The video demonstrations of features will be a big help to many.

Ron, if I am thinking of the right ones, they're Rainbos.

A fun topic to visit again every decade or so. Natural stone formations. Mysterious Moqui Marbles in Zion National Park The old pix I came across which inspired this topic.

Pretty. The dark blue and yellow combo is striking.

Hi there! The first six look vintage, meaning before 1970. The rest look like they could be from the 1980's or later. They are all machine-made which means they do not have pontils. They may have "seams" or "cutlines" from the beginning or end of the glass stream in the automated process. Or they may have "cold rolls" were creases formed because the molten glass was just a little too cool to be completely rounded on the mechanized rollers. More views might suggest a 1930's or so Japanese origin on the blue ones. Not sure what kind of yellow and green swirls you might end up with in New Zealand. The speckled ones and the one-incher at the end would be Asian or Mexican.

Hubby did NOT go shopping this weekend. But he does have tomorrow off so will probably go then. It's been a LONG LONG time since hubby and his guy friends have not gone out to spend money together on the weekend.