Steph

This 'un had a little metal ball -- smaller than a BB. I think I still have it. I THINK this second one was mine, but maybe someone else will come by and remind me that it was theirs. I don't know if I would have kept it. The big chip/blowout/flake woulda bugged me. Alas, I sold my blue Champ metallics.

Like I said in another thread ... don't worry too much about tangents. If they result in discussions about marbles which might be confused for other makers, that can be educational also. It can lead to insights such as this.

Some surprising (to me) color combos

Maybe if we tried we could get NASA to post it as an Astronomy Picture of the Day

Yeah, browsing through old Cairo threads I can see some of why you're leaning how you're leaning ....

The one-incher is nutz!

Yes, that sounds good. .... including snacking on it over the weekend.

I'll jump aboard the "awesome Cairo" train on the last one. For the others I'll just watch and learn.

The last two look so similar structurally and yet they'd be decades apart. (right?) The one above them is ghostly.

crazy cool

Bright! Beautiful! Happy winter Saturday to me!

Cool to see a Heaton big guy. I must remember this moment. But it'll probably slip my mind again. Big marbles from smaller makers just can't seem to stick in my head.

You're not the only one. Here's the discussion from when I discovered it.

Kewl ... I remember one time about ten years ago that someone was selling marbles on ebay ... and they turned out to be Ford gumball machine gum.

My happy making schmear marble. Not as many colors as I remembered. But the edges seemed oxbloody, so I can try to fit it into the recent runs in two ways.

Tricky. It's Asia or Mexico. That base is fairly clear. Nearly crystal clear. Maybe a tinge of gray but no bottle green. A clear base either suggests "early" Asia or modern Mexico. "Early" Asia increases the likelihood of them being from Japan. Would be good to see the marbles from the top so I could see all the vanes and how crisp they are. I'm so much on the fence, that I probably need to get my cats out and see just how crystal clear the Mexican bases are compared to these (because I remember them as being very clear). And Ann has answered while I was dithering. *loading her answer*. Yes, I like her answer.

Something about those blends How did they get those schmears of color out of two injectors .... or whatever it was that usually got them two individual ribbons per side.

Do you have Baumann? That's where I read about it. In my memory I am vaguely picturing a simple transparent marble with bands on or near the surface. Simple bands ... not a lot of color ... but maybe there is something special about the number or arrangement of them.

I keep thinking about shocking everyone and showing up.

Never would have guessed. Such nice soft colors.

I missed out on those peewee flames. Those are crazy intricate for something so small.