Steph

yay!

this morning it looks a little more swirly than I was seeing last night. so this morning I'm leaning champ. But I dunno.

If standard size, I'd guess Champ.

Yeah .. can't tell if it's supposed to be a swirl or a clearie.

Can't quite make out the structure. If this is one of the Jabos, then being out of round is not a surprise.

To what do we attribute the faint strand of lutz?

Agree.

Have a blast!

Hey, that was Richard's thought train ... he's getting all swirly on us.

My vote is Akro Moss Agate.

Not sure I would have thought of Jabo on the top. But yes, classics. From somewhere between 1991 and 2007.

???? Sure looks like that's what it wanted to be. And Vitro's my best guess for what it is, but I don't know what its name would be.

It's the opposite of how you get flames. Flames come from a very thin stream of molten glass layering back and forth in the mound of glass which becomes the marble. The buttcrack marble came from a wider stream of glass allowing only one fold before there was enough glass to form the marble. Hey, did that sound like I know what I'm talking about? I think it's right ... but wait for more answers!

Well, my first stray thought is that Akro ads would compare their marbles to styles that their target audience's fathers would have played with. On the other hand that could have just been an adwriter's fantasy. On the third hand, have MFC and Akro (and anyone who called their glass "onyx") trying to get into the older-fashioned stone market. Soooooo .... it's feasible that the Master owners would have been in that frame of mind as they tried to think of their own signature style. But that's all I got. "Feasible".

While I was looking for a black widow photo I found some pictures Edna took of modern Marble Kings Randy Gossett sent her. She even has the red ribbons in her group. More pix here: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/6902-mostly-pix-marble-king/?do=findComment&comment=187471

Was wondering if that was a "black widow" ... a type dug from a 1960's dump site by Jill Spencer. The black widow is a two ribbon marble. You appear to maybe have a second ribbon that something weird happened to. Your ribbon(s) look maybe more equatorial than on my black widows. But the ribbon color looks good in comparison to what I'm holding in my hand..

The black and red one intrigues me. Seams? I'm not ready to rule it out as a 1960's MK.

I got rid of the collage with two views the same.

It's Llloyd! I was just thinking of you. No. Really! Happy New Year.

Gut punch. That was a beauty.

What does the other end look like?

and juicy

Though I can't remember red and pink, the blue and pink looks familiar. I may have had some of those. Would have gotten mine in 2004 or 2005 from someone who sold modern MK's. He would sell them 100 at a time on eBay. So I place that one at 2000, give or take.

I'm a little jealous. I've always considered these out of my reach. Maybe I'll start saving for some lookers like this. For now I'll have just enjoy others' from afar.