Steph

Fun! Thanks for the link. I know I've read some Updike. Should look up The Dogwood Tree.

John, you could leave it anyway to provide contrast whatever it turns out to be. Once upon a time I started to collect links for things like "Akro versus Master" and "Ravenswood versus Alley". I kinda sorta vaguely remember enlisting Cheese on a related project. Not sure if I'm remembering the right topic (need to to look that up). But it wouldn't hurt to have a "we interrupt the regularly scheduled Alleys with a comparison to Ravenswood" photo.

If marbles could talk!

Thank you, James, for checking in with us. Good luck with everything. And oo la la at the ebay listings. So very pretty.

thank you!

That looks like an exotic plant.

Thank you for showing us they're out there. You've already had a good year and it's just February.

At that size, Jabo or Alley. That pattern is more like a larger (7/8" to 1") Jabo than what I remember from the 3/4" size, so I'd say Alley. But would like someone to come in and teach me about CAC's in that size.

Gotta go with Alley. And nice shades!

Great Mother of Pearl!

Hi intuit. Welcome. I'm sorry to have to tell you that these are modern marbles. I think they were made by Vacor. In Mexico. Within the last 20 years. This style type may still be in production. If they are not Mexican, then they are Asian. Modern in any case.

Are you hoping CAC? I won't dash that hope. Will root for you until one of the CAC guys gets here.

Hello, raginisharma. Welcome.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/washington-woman-finds-rare-purple-pearl-worth-600/story?id=37163589 Okay, so it's not really big enough to play Chinese Checkers with. Darn.

popped into my head tonight

Not familiar with the "Cherry Bomb" name. But I can dig it. Pretty.

Edna, a post you made in Bob's thread showed up here also. Or half of it did. So I deleted the one from here. That's all.

I had a beautiful little collection of highly pocket worn marbles. Maybe they were aquarium marbles. And I sold them. Funny I'm sad about that. Sad about parting with the mint Akros from the collection of an 8-year-old boy who babied the marbles his traveling uncle brought him and never played with 'em. Sad about parting with my warmly roughed up ones. Aaaaaarggh, why did I ever sell a marble. Oh yeah, I remember why, but still ..... aaaaargh.

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Coolness. Just found out that the "Unread Content" button shows new gallery entries as well as new posts. (Thanks to tallnbald76 :thup)