Steph

Ionknow either! But yes it's cool.

Festive! Nice choice for the background color ...

Oh yeah, that's fun! Magical!

.... now where did I put my Budweiser marble .....

We have achieved luster!

This reference could be the Japanese patches. (And maybe the transitionals.) I think of the Reg'lar Fellers puzzle boxes with the patches in them. I have seen both 1931 and 1938 announcements for Reg'lar Fellers marketing tie-ins on toys. So I use those to help anchor my best guesses on the mushroom marbles and such.

Yes! The red and yellow. I went to the source. Solved another mystery for Dave, too. lol. He remembered the shipment of marbles coming in but didn't know what guys on the floor had ultimately done with them. Now we know. Now to see if I can photograph them. Maybe the overcast day will work to my advantage.

Oooh. That's kind of a mess and still beautiful. LOVE the purple.

I just found out something neat about "my" lusters -- "my" in quotes because they actually belong to a friend and I'm selling them for her. I have some Chinese Jabos. Remember when some 1" Chinese marbles were mixed in with 1" Jabos? Well, these are even better than that. Five cases of 5/8" marbles were accidentally shipped from China to Jabo with an order of some other items. Well, Jabo didn't let the marbles go to waste. They put 'em in with the Classics and lustered them all up. So my friend and I have a mix of glossy Chinese marbles and glossy Classics. But I can't post the picture I took because the flash stripped the gloss right off and so I am gonna try something different tomorrow. Maybe find one hour of sunlight some time during the day ... if at all possible ... might have to wait until the next day ... more rain predicted tomorrow.

yes

Luster deferred. Back to Tribute to Friendship. Small ones. 9/16". Two have slender lutz ribbons. One has the teensiest, sparsest specks of lutz but it's there and I know it.

He'll do, eh? *jumping up and down and waving at Caroline*

Hi there, Caroline! No need to jog my memory but thank you for the eye candy. Think of you often. Great to see you. Congratulations on opening this new chapter of your life.

me too Next up in my sort is lusters from around 2004 .... but it's gonna take me awhile to figure out how to capture the gloss.

It's the big day!

On facebook I am using the Pirate English setting. It's fun. Also confusing. I can't always translate what they're suggesting that I do, so I may send a PM when I mean to post on the wall. But mostly it's fun. Simple pleasures.

Same here. I know how annoying I am!

You're welcome. I don't know. I know that in the recent past I have just used the word "dimple" for similar marks. Not aware of a technical term.

Oooh, a necklace. And the Kuwaiti bank note!

Here's a pic on a different background, which give a hint of how different these Last Dances can look depending on the lighting. Good lighting and "pop". Ordinary lighting and "meh". And this pic even had flash on it and still much is missed. They were quite a dark run and in ordinary you miss out on more.

Today's Jabos. Last Dances I do love this oxblood ....

Oh neat. This is a new one to me. Don't want to miss any details. I do love the things which are sort of like what we know but are a few degrees off from how we think of them. Such as "Rainbow Stripe" as a Peltier style name. Now a Berry Pink mention! (heh, just made a couple of notes while I was reading along)