Steph

Those are the cat's meow!

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Ron (Swissmarble) posted these on Facebook and I begged him to let me post them here! So pretty!

I am not familiar with them. My quick glance at their auctions didn't alarm me. Their ID's don't look 100% perfect but I'd guess they'd get a passing grade for them. Welllll .... some of the "wet mint" ones are polished, but the seller says so in the description. So bid accordingly.

Most pontils are associated with handmade marbles. Some with "transitionals", which may be machine-made. One tricky thing is recognizing whether something actually is a pontil. Some machine-made marbles have cold-roll marks or damage which may be mistaken for pontils. The top marble is an Akro Popeye. That's a type of corkscrew from the 1930's. It's a popular marble. Yours is damaged. Of course that affects value. The bottom marble is a contemporary handmade marble. Do you see a signature on it? (Someone's initials?) The middle one is tricky. My first thought based on colors was Peltier, but the structure is wrong for the marble type I was thinking of. I'm starting to think Jabo for it. The kind made in 2008 or later. How much sparkle in the green chunks? They could be aventurine or mica.

Postcard perfect. I know you know how lucky you are! Thanks for sharing your city with us.

Yup, he's a convert and didn't even realize it until he said it out loud.

I'm starting to get a good feel for Alleys I think, so now I'm ready to start learning Ravenswoods. I do have some to take pix of.

Monkey wrench time! How about an accidentally single-seam Japanese marble? Or an accidentally single-seam Pelt Rainbo? What kind of marbles did it come with, John?

Thanks for the tip. Yes, that needs to be watched full screen.

farrago

I'll have to remember your broken cork example. It's even better at showing off the BC features than this one I usually fall back on.

Great broken cork example! Good job showing it off. And interesting drizzle on the the last marble. Very syrupy.

When you clean out a vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner.

The only thing better than blue-green might be purple edged with pink.

I agree unusual. Strange effect on the ribbon ends.

Wow @ the tech. What a project. What discoveries could be made while trying to emulate CGI. *mind blown*

I'd love to see one of those in hand. Your picture has plenty of sparkle though.

Where does your buddy live? Do you have a terrarium?

*waves at Chuck*

kewl

Found my metallics: Wish the photo were larger. Wish I still had the metallics!

Looking for photos of the metallics I used to have. Found this marble posted by Backacres, said to be dug at Champion. But I know that "dug at Champion" could mean Alley. So, should I move it to the Alley thread or is it good here?