Steph

One vote for Alley.

I started this thread in part to show straight edges on Pelts: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/9902-fun-with-peerless-patches

One reason I'm a little hesitant to commit on tinted bananas is that I have a small sized honey amber banana which has been attributed to Peltier. (The root beer float one is a bigger marble.) But there's always an exception to the rule, isn't there. Basically what Ann said is what you should go by. Someone might want the blue-based ones even if they're foreign. It could take a different kind of marketing than selling Pelts would.

p.s., the blue-tinted marbles in the bottom center of Picture 3 may be of interest to someone too. I just can't place them at the moment. Maybe a more detailed picture of vanes would help. The sharper the banana-like vanes are the more likely they are to be foreign.

In Picture 3 you have foreign cat's eyes and American-made Peltier bananas. Some of the banana-like ones could possible be foreign. But the plump ones in the crystal clear bases -- go with Pelt bananas. Pelt bananas are popular, and could be worth a little bit of money. Don't know if any would go for more than a dollar, but I think we get above the "few cents" range. I'd guess the ones with adventurine to be worth more than the ones without. The three-vane and six-vane foreign ones are generally worth pretty much nothing. Since even the newest marbles sell for a few cents apiece in stores you might find someone who would give you something for them but mostly they're not considered collectible. There are exceptions. I don't see the exceptions in your group though. [Edit: again, the boulders might be worth more to someone.] With your six-vane ones, notice that the six vanes are three pairs of vanes. Like red-red followed by white-white followed by blue-blue. When the vanes take different configurations that's when we get to collectibility. Here are two examples of other variations. These are called cross-throughs. Dark blue pair and light blue pair with a white cross-through: Three-way cross-through: There is also an American variety with cross-through vanes which is considered collectible. You can see some of those here:

Boulders (the ones which are close to an inch in size ... or bigger) could bring more than just a few cents even with the common varieties. Picture 2 has a few interesting marbles: The white-vaned boulder (2nd from the left on top) could possiby be a big Peltier banana with a nonconventional core. Or it could be a pretty Vitro. Might be worth something. On the left side of the middle row ... that could be worth something too -- if that base is transparent blue like it looks to me, a Vitro or a Cat's Eye collector might want to add that one to there collection. Tinted-based vitros are not that common, and in boulder size that's really nice. Also in the middle row ... third from the right ... that might be a Peltier rainbo.

Picture 1 shows mostly cat's eyes and mostly American made. A lot of Vitro cage style cat's eyes and some single color non-cage-style which may include some Marble Kings or may also be Vitros. The big blue clearie at the bottom left looks like it might have an iridescent coating, which would suggest that it is foreign. Is that the same marble as in Picture 4? These fall in the range of "commons", and so are generally worth only a few cents apiece. Some exceptions noted in next post.

Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4

I thought I could find a box pic with bases like that, but ribbons which were more red. Looked three times though and didn't come with what I thought I recalled.

Liking the big red and yellow rainbo.

wonderful

You know I love that pic! You're an artist.

Kool! Thanks.

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More good stuff. Thanks!

Vermilion

Neat. Thanks, guys, for keeping the thread going.

For the record, I don't see a whiff of unethicalness in meeting up with a friend to make sure you get to as many auctions as possible. Wonderful that you guys could hang out and have marble fun. If anyone wants to add thoughts on this, I'll break this discussion off into a thread about auction philosophies. For now, let's enjoy the marbles.

oh baby, what is that? Starry starry night.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I think I've seen someone show results from Payne-related digging.

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