Steph

Lovely ... they really are delightful marbles. Yeah, still not the one I was thinking of. Pretty sharp division on the ones I remember. I sorta remember them as maybe Vitros, but I also remember not being sure. Of course, I was pretty new when I had them. I probably wouldn't have let them go if I hadn't been so new to marbles.

Sammy's Mountain Marbles

That is sheer awesomeness, Paul. And yours aren't too shabby either, Alan.

Sammy's Mountain Marbles -- THICK lutz -- thank you, sun, for helping me with the top mib. (Thank you, Edna, for the eggs. )

Doh! I forgot we were on metallic. *edits out my oxblood* I'll try to make it up tomorrow with some great lutz.

What do you mean, what if?

Bud's post about aventurine reminded me of them. Many of the vanes of the ones I had were sparkly. Like they had salt crystals in them. I called it aventurine, but that wouldn't technically have been the right name. But first step is to find someone who remembers the existence of marbles with that vane arrangement. I promise I didn't make them up.

Six vanes (I'm pretty sure). Three vanes in one color adjacent to each other. And three vanes in a second color adjacent to each other. I think it was six vanes. Could have been two and two. But it was definitely one color on one half of the marble and the other color on the other half of the marble. Not cross-throughs. I remember it as looking American-made.

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What would we call sparkly white vanes? I didn't know a word, so I just called 'em aventurine. Wish I could show you. Really really wish I could show you. But I sold the cat's eyes with the sparkly white vanes before I realized that I'd never find more like them.

Rich will be glad to see people are finding and using his work. I check his site often for reminders about Jabo and related information. We sometimes use the word "aventurine" as a catch-all for almost anything that's sparkly and that we don't have another name for.

This morning on MeTV we have the Blair Nurse Project episode of Diagnosis Murder. Six Van Dykes in that one. Three generations. It's good and spooky.

I started to say flame. But now I've decided that first view is four fingers and a thumb. A thumb with a pointy nail.

The special runs from Jabo and maybe later Dave McCullough runs are the only ones I know of.

Does every area have their famous outlandish person who makes really loud commercials and tells you how CRAAAZZZY they are to be selling such wonderful things at such low prices? In Oklahoma when I was younger we had Linda Soundtrak. Found her on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbP50p-beew I feel like her. I've sorted out my Jabos. I have my keepers. I'm all good with selling the rest ... or even giving some away ... and then I take a photo like this and suddenly a Linda Soundtrak impression goes off in my head and I'm like I can't believe I'm being so KEERAAAAZZY and selling marbles that pretty! LOL

Watch me whip, watch me nae nae. Okay, it's "The Whip". Last Dance. Subtle colors. There's some baby blue ...

Master seems a good guess then. Anyone remember aventurine in moss agate greens? Oh yes, FWIW, it's a "moss agate" with lower case letters even if it's a Master marble. Master used that term to describe their marbles. The official style name if it's a Master is "Meteor", but it is still a moss agate, little m, little a. And Akro used Moss Agate with the capital letters. LOL ... if you already knew that, just pat me on the head and tell me good girl.

How do birds decide what day to fly south? Yes, I'm five-years-old and no I don't know how to google.

A sweet Tri-Color Agate -- that's the company name -- which some collectors would call a "Special". Soooo, new question ... does it have another collector's name? Closest I can think of is Superman -- does orange qualify for Superman? Is there some other name I should be thinking of?

Marble mail! I'm going to make a solid vote for folded corkscrew. I tried to follow the blue ribbon around and got so turned around that I almost thought there were three blue ends ... which would nail the the double ingot guess. But that was wrong. There are only two. So thennnn ... I got out my Sharpie and followed the yellow ribbon instead of the blue, and it went all the way around, from end to end. It's one nice twisty path from seam to seam. Folded corkscrew wins the day. Don't worry, Bud, I'll clean your marble! A little alcohol will do it.

Saying yes to aventurine. No on mica. And then thinking Master is a good possibility. It's between Master and Akro. I'll stall by asking for headlong shots of both seams.

sweet colors

Or eggs or lemons or whatever you want to call them.