Steph

Could be ... but how can you be sure? Based on the numbers of Kokomos created, when it doubt, tie goes to Pelt. Sometimes I really wanna say "Koko" and you'll hear me instead say "Made on a Rainbo machine" ... that's my way of covering myself ... coz I don't commit to the location of that particular Rainbo machine at the time the marble was made.

I was really hoping that Edna would say, "Of course -- that's part of the pea family. It's a Blue Eyed Susan."

Okay. I'd like to see more information on that. In the top photo the yellow area doesn't look even a little MK to me. If the only pic I had seen was the bottom one, maybe I might have thought of MK.

I sent out a couple of SOS's. Linda Simmons and Edna say they've never seen them.

And it's solid blue around the rest? No little lines separating the blue into an equatorial ribbon plus a patch?

little bitty bubbles in the base glass I think I'm seeing slightly translucent base with little bitty bubbles. That's sometimes a sign of Heaton or Cairo Novelty.

P.s., hello and welcome.

Is that base glass a little seedy? If so we might be looking at a Heaton.

near mint

Snow will make my nieces and nephews happy! Sorry for your 5 hour drive for nothing.

Some of his look more crackly than others, if that's one of the differences you're thinking of.

Could be all Master.

Tom Thornburgh

Really good chance of Champion on that one.

They don't look Akro. The Akro Moonie ia expected to have orange glow coming from inside when you backlight it (or when you look through it with a light source behind it). Do you have that? It's not coming through in the photos. The light bluish one on the right of the grouping of six looks like it might be a swirl, so we might have Champion. Check for Master-like cut lines on some of the others. More interesting to me than Akro Moonie is the Master Cloudy. Those are harder to find and ID.

Yeah, hard to guess. If it has seams that could be a little clue. But that's in the "clearies" or "game marbles" category, where a lot of companies could have made them.

Exactly! Hey .... lookit! http://marbleconnection.com/topic/15451-decatur-il-marble-show-anyone-go/?tab=comments#comment-132724 From 2011 ... so it's not a very recent name game thing. "Chocolate Hermaphrodite: Blue, orange/pink, NLR with adventurine, chocolate base."

That's one of the most hideous beautiful marbles I've seen in a long time. I see all NLR ... but I don't see how they could have meant to do that. Something went wrong with the base glass, doncha think?

Canon seems to think it ought to take good close-up photos. My Canon isn't an elph, but it does okay. Before I got my camera, I was given the advice to take practice marble shots with whatever camera I was thinking of buying. I didn't follow the advice. My main complaint with my Canon is that when I take flash photos I get rings of white dots on the marbles. There are some on the photo below. The model I'm using is PowerShot SX170 IS.

Smashing success! Kudos!