Steph

busy little stripes

Mibsters will be shooting for all the marbles at national championship

*raspberry* You don't think there was meant to be a distinction? I was excited to see the description. I was gonna come post this if no one else bumped the thread.

More Sunsets

Someone reminded me about this. Red Striped Carnelian box, courtesy of Jeff Lewis:

Neato. Interesting stuff, Maynard. How do you feel about benzenes?

We've seen the occasional early Sunset box before. But have we known what the name meant? If we didn't, now we might. National Line Rainbos vs. Sunsets -- two colors vs. three colors? I've seen three-color marbles in NLR boxes, but maybe once upon a time this was the intended distinction?

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That's another good question. Here are some variations on the real-word definition of cullet. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material. Waste glass for melting down to be reused. Broken or waste glass suitable for remelting. Perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc). http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cullet So when you see glass companies with piles of glass to be recycled into marbles, that's definitely cullet. But marble collectors sometimes have slightly different definitions, so we call the big chunks of glass found at marble factory sites "cullet" even if the chunks might never have been intended to be reused. And I have a lot of jars of out-of-round and broken Jabos which I have labelled as cullet. And now that you ask I'm not sure if I was correct to do so, but that's how I thought of them at the time.

Yah, sure looks yellow.

headscratcher

kewl beans. Tornado also white?

Thanks everyone for the pix! I still haven't figured out where I put the oxblood I was planning to compare with these. But it'll roll out from its hidey hole sometime. Ah, I think I might know where to look next.

I was surprised yesterday when you mentioned "first Oxblood". Wondered what you could possibly mean. I had a whole bunch of those once ... before I knew what I had ... and sold 'em! It was a bunch of oxbloods and the other non-oxbloods which would have come in the box with them. So basically I had someone's box of tri-color agates, but without the box, and sold 'em.

They look old to me. I don't know how to identify their cores.

I don't understand the meaning of "thin open seam either". I'll guess that he means the channel of clear glass between the two cores.

When I was 8 or 9, I rode up from Texas to Oklahoma in a 1930-ish Dodge. Can't remember the exact year anymore. That was an adventure. A very warm adventure. The top did not come down on the Dodge.

Good point. Some errors could add value. And on the most common marbles, finding one out of round could possible turn a marble which is worth a nickle into one which is worth $1 or more. A football shaped cateye might possibly be worth more than average. Some people collect egg-shaped marbles and other oddballs. I think mostly for fun, not value. However, you might be able to get money for them if you market them cleverly.

Gonna go with less.

Gotta go with Jabo on those. Using the Fenton Burmese cullet.

Love 'em! Neat that you actually got to visit with, Alan, Jess. I shared a few emails. That's all.

Good theory!

nice find fun tune

The top one has two tunnels.