Steph

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.

The white glass looked Japanese to me but the end looked ... like something else.

That's an intriguing word.

Are you sure the ribbons are random? It looks sorta pelty to me. I'd be turning it over trying to verify that the ribbons actually did have an order to them. Otherwise, I'd just go with "transparent swirl" and I wouldn't try much harder to ID it, though the size might incline me to think Alley.

Sure does look CAC. No comment on name.

Oh what a nice group.

itty bitty, huh? And brown?

Good idea. Keeperthread. One word. Easy to remember. Easy to search.

http://marbleconnection.com/topic/18850-glass-slides-with-marble-playing/

I kinda remember hoping Galen would comment on that one but I don't think he showed up for it. I was thinking/hoping CAC because of that base. And how the brown did not blend in at all.