Steph

No theme. No particular reason. Just marbles. Please join in. A Kevin Nail auger commissioned for me by a friend.

It _is_ beautiful. Some nice action inside. It's likely a West Virginia swirl. There were many marble making companies in West Virginia making swirls in the 1930's through 1950's. Can be hard to pin down a specific company out of all the possibilities. Someone might recognize it though. *fingers crossed*

P.s., folks will be curious about its size. Is it 5/8" across (that's standard) or 1" across (that would be big) or ???

I don't recognize it. How about starting a new thread in the ID section for that one?

The red/white/green ones are Vitro All-Reds. The red/green/blue/white ones are Marble King Tri-Color Rainbows. All likely from the 60's (or maybe late 50's). Not valuable. But good to have for a well-rounded vintage collection.

Had the high bid long enough to get my hopes up but I did not win. 15/16 inch.

Those are some nice marbles from the 1940's to 1960's. Maybe some from 1930's. I don't see pricey ones. It's a solidly vintage group though. That's a good sign. And someone might recognize more value in some of the swirls than I do. There's a red, green and white one near the top I'd like to see the other side of. (That's what I wrote in response to post #4 before I saw the notice for post #5.) In Post #5, at least two of those look like Vitro cat's eyes. Maybe all three. Cat's eyes are generally among the less valuable marbles, but you have a three color hybrid there and that raised the value of the cat eye. I'm not sure how much to. But treat that one nicely.

Check out the sizes of the "Acme"s listed in post #7 here: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/12733-acme-realers/?p=108127 _Looks like_ 9/16" up to 1". Some of the realers in the earlier posts look like a pretty bright orange. I can't find my patch box so I can't check what I have.

13 seconds before the auction ended and the euroswirl was still mine. Then boom! What a pretty marble.

Dayang. It didn't turn red out here. Maybe a little orange but not enough to see why it was called blood moon.

I have seen some roughly 1/2" marbles that I consider realers. Had them in my possession while trying to help ID someone's marbles. But I can't remember if I have any. I think all the ones I have might be 5/8".

Cave. With internet. That's for me.

When I look up Peltier Smilies I see something which was said to be a fantasy box from around the time of the Novas ... maybe? http://marbleconnection.com/topic/16969-peltier-smilies/

I thought the blue spotted handmade something was pretty cool ... and then I saw the euroswirl. OMG!

Thank you!

Jiminy Christmas. Where were you watching from? A lunar orbiter?

Got to see it. Without leaving home. That was very cool.

What he said!

From George's collection Marbles from Phil Cook, The Quaker Man

Here's the one I took a decent photo of and shared earlier. Rosenthal:

I've been wanting to start a thread with George's posters but have been putting it off because, well, you know me and picture taking. But here's one I had in digital form. So I'll use it to launch the thread and hopefully will be able to take okay photos of his other posters later. Peltier Comic Marbles:

Posted in another thread so adding here while I'm thinking of it