Steph

This picture turned out okay! DAS necklaces and keychains from 2015

I just finished my taxes. Getting a nice refund, feeling flush. I will pay the shipping. Even international.

On eBay, one sold for $362 in December and another for 250 in January. That's why I figured I'd pull my copy out and see what it might be able to do for the forum. Now someone's trying to sell one on the Bay for $899.

Fun accidental formation. Keep it safe. I had a stellar cursive capital S once but haven't seen it in years. There are folks who collect whole alphabets. I saw someone with a complete upper case and lower case sets.

My Vacor Sunsets needed a new group shot.

Thanks!

For auction we have Peltier Glass Toy Marbles: An American Legend, by Sami Arim, Mike Johnson and Gino Biffany. Proceeds will go to forum maintenance. This is my copy. It's in good, almost new condition. Let's call it NM+. The spine is bumped and a couple of pages open more easily than the rest. Winner will pay actual shipping, based on two pounds priority mail in the U.S. from zip code 54241. I will also mail internationally but may need advice as to which is the best way to send. Edit: I will pay the shipping. You can pay for your win through the forum donation tool and I will ship as soon as Jason says the donation went through. Auction ends Sunday, February 9, at noon Central Standard Time. Happy bidding.

Holy Cr@p is right.

I'm okay. Hibernating for winter. But I couldn't not come out and say hi to you.

Back in the 1800's, it was peawee, which was "no larger than a good-sized marrowfat pea" I spread the love out between multiple variations of the cat eye name.

Hi Ray!

Man, I didn't even think to check to see if the Packers made it through. Ooops, guess they didn't.

We get top billing. Also, lol @ the rope.

Here are some "made in Mexico" marbles which are hand-dated 1983. The player-size have three vanes. The big one has six. Some have a noticeable tint. Not as crystal clear as the Vacor cat's eyes that I'm most familiar with from the 2000's. I feel sure these all belong in the same net. The net only had a very small tear until today. I hadn't expected the large one to be able to escape, but it had ideas of its own.

Here are some big ones which came to me together with about 100 other Vacor boulders. I am confident of Vacor on the middle and the left. The slight coke-glass tint and vane shape on the right make me wonder if that one is Asian but I am keeping an open mind. Not sure why they came together that way.

Here are some peewees.

I am very fond of my spotted dicks. From the Advent Calendar my marble friends surprised me with in 2019.

I just found out that the remarkable glass artist Chris Juedemann passed away in last year, at the age of 49. Hendersonville Glass Artist Leaves a Legacy “Purer Than the Sun” – Asheville Made He made political, historical and cultural portraits in murrine. And if I'm not mistaken among his many other talents he was also a guitar maker? For such people as James Taylor? He was one of those who didn't pull punches and kept you on your toes with a keen perception and a passion for social justice. A blinding light sometimes. Shocking to learn the light has been dimmed.

Hilarious and adorable

Sweet and funny. I just want to find a good home for some of the harder to categorize marbles. ( : I thought of another example -- a Chris Juedemann "second", which if I were to sell it I would want to sell it in a way which was respectful of how it came into my possession. That led me to google to see what Chris was doing now, only to learn he died in 2023. Trying to figure out what to do with my marbles is bound to be a very emotional experience.

Thank you, William. You are special, too! 💕 Art, it's definitely Brian's. Still in the mailer. I just wanted to be able to point to it in Brian's original thread announcing that particular run. 🙂

I will be slowly downsizing my collection. I hope to end with a very select group of treasures. Some marbles I will give away. My backyard neighbor girl has recently shown an interest, for example. It would be awesome to get her started with a few classics. Some I will send over to the wilds of eBay. Some I might send over to the even wilder wilds of Facebook. Some I would only want to part with to trustworthy buyers. For example, a Brian Graham oxblood made on a Miller machine. I would want that to go to someone who I know would appreciate it for what it is and not try to turn it into anything it isn't, if you know what I mean. That's what I was looking for today. I'm here on the forum to find a thread of his where my marble may have been pictured, because I wanted to find the actual marble today and I couldn't. Grrrr. I should be able to lay my hands on it just like that. I know I had it in my hands recently. And then I put it somewhere "safe". I am pretty sure that knowing myself I realized the "safe" place should also be readily visible. Yet, I can't see it. Grrrrrrrrr. P.s., I am pretty sure I found the thread but alas the images are gone. I'll find the marble "soon".

Here's a looker Ann posted. https://marbleconnection.com/topic/22250-variations-on-oxblood/?do=findComment&comment=198655