Steph

Give the grandson a little present from granddad. This one comes with a little history lesson -- it was made during World War II.

The humidity here often makes airdrying a challenge.

We'll make room.

Hmmmmm ... when I don't towel my face, I feel chapped in the spots where the water tends to drip from.

I sent out an SOS to him. Maybe he'll drop in on this thread.

Bumping with these bonzer pictures of a carved UV Mandala marble by Masataka Joei. I tried to find the link at the Black Market Marbles page, but I couldn't find it. Could only find the version I shared to my friend's page, so I'll start with a screenshot of that share to give background information.

George Sourlis published a series on box repair in the WVMCC newsletter.

Being so unusual, I'm moving it to the main forum for my eyes to see it.

Amira Willighagen, from the Netherlands, after her breakout performance on Holland's Got Talent.

Hi Billyray. Welcome. Yes to Vitro Conqueror. Yes, from the 1940's.

Thanks much!

Delicious

Wish it had some yellow or ox to go along with the rest of the lemonade look. Does anyone have examples of Akros with lemonade bases and just white for the second color? [Edit: well, yours does have smear of a third color in it ... do you think leftover from oxblood? or just some impurity?] These mossy marbles of Bill's were thought to be Akros ... last I heard:

I'm inclined to say Akro. Have seen Akros with the rams horn single seams.

By the way, hi!

looks foreign

I bet you already have Bob humming the theme to Big Bang. ... wait ... Bob may not have the DVD's so he might not be familiar with the episode naming convention ..... well, you have me humming it!

Adorable! And wonderful you keeping the traditions alive. Does she have any friends to pull into the games?

May I come over and sit on your balcony?

quite!

Has anyone mentioned measuring several marbles at once to minimize the effects of rounding errors? You could take ten or twenty or more marbles of the same type and get the total volume using water displacement. If you're just interested in the density of the glass then the diameters of the various marbles aren't needed. Yeah, watery mess, and all. But that's my contribution to this topic.

Why are you so sure it's new? Also, does it have seams?

That's quite lovely. I still favor using the water soluble polymer coating since the haze is so bothersome.