Steph

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right of me ... I received these together. The Kokomo Run on the left in one baggie. The Joker Odyssey on the right in another baggie. The boulders wrapped separately and unlabeled. The smaller of the boulders has colors which could match the Kokomos. It also has a thread of lutz, which is showing faintly on the bottom side of the marble in the boulder close-up. So, did the Kokomo run include any which were over 7/8"? Or any with lutz? In the sunlight on the small blue Kokos, I see some sparkle which looks like it could be glinting gold. There's also green aventurine, so it's hard to sort the sparkle. :) But no distinct threads of gold and certainly no clumps. Just a faint sprinkling of what _might_ be tiny gold.

Wicked!

haha! exactly!

Cotton Eyed Joe and Boney Maroney

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?