Steph

In the cherry-ade lot, I wouldn't say carnelian because I'm not seeing the brown I would expect for those. So while I'm not sure when everyone else uses the name cherry-ade, I'll guess you've listed those okay.

while in the Master neighborhood (Dave's)

The old one is working right now. The new one worked while I had it switched on but I'm gonna keep it on reserve in case the old one freezes again. Devices which need batteries instead of cords just don't seem green but hubbers made it sound like cords were no longer an option ... at least not in the electronics section at our WalMart where he was doing the emergency mouse run. Bowling-ball mouse?

Doh! I didn't turn the new mouse on. Since when do you have to switch meeses on?

Could be decoration. I've bought many orbs over the last 30 years which weren't for any particular purpose, and definitely not toys. Miscellaneous items in curio shops.

Those are sharp. ... I'll let someone else address nomenclature

My mouse stopped working yesterday. After restarts sometimes it still wouldn't work and sometimes it would work for a couple of minutes. The computer had been slowing down for awhile so I did a quick save of My Documents and reformatted. .... for a little bit that looked like it might have solved the mouse problem. But nooooo .... so hubby brought me home a new mouse. Which the computer says is recognized. But which doesn't move the pointer. It's wireless, and we have our router and the phone nearby so I wonder if that's interfering with the signal. Meanwhile, back to the old mouse and hoping it will work. For the past several minutes it has, so maybe whatever was wrong yesterday has fixed itself. ??? ??? But if I disappear ... you know the drill ... no need to worry about me. It's just a mouse. Send me a friendly thought across the ether.

Bob's posts are like opening a coffee table book on the art of commercials.

The very earliest Sunbursts had clear bases -- the Tiger Eye styles. But I'm still confident Hansel's are Akro. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/6684-mostly-pix-master-made/

must not must not must not must not mention clear base on earliest sunbursts must not must not must not

I'm jealous oooh ox!

Thanks for playing! Those are nice ones. I have another perfect boring one. *hunting for the pictures* Not finding it but I'm finding other fun pictures I haven't seen in awhile. lol

One I just posted in the Jackson thread. Under blacklight:

Still don't have my dug ones photographed but I found these pics while I was looking for something else. It's a Jackson. And under blacklight:

So what is YOUR most interesting boring marble?

From our gallery: Best Small Chinas

Did my pictures not show up? Yikes, I just went to Photobucket and it looks like Photobucket might be broken. I can see my pix, but that may be because they're in my cache. Gosh, I hope this is a temporary situation. Losing Photobucket would be bad. [Edit: Now Photobucket says they're doing some maintenance.] I've replaced the picture. There is my strange gray and orange cat eye in all its glory.

While I was looking for my relatively boring sparklers, I ran across this marble again. It's hideous. But to me fascinating. A single-seam cat's eye. I don't have a good guess for who made it. That's not a Vitro arrangement. It's four thin long vanes. Mostly gray but with some orange. I showed off the orange side in the picture but in hand it's mainly gray. Who made a gray cat's eye? The base is very clear, which makes it seem unlikely to be Asian.

I don't know what Teaberry or Pepto taste like. Maybe I'll try Teaberry.

(Thanks for the lid. Handsome set.)

Some of my Salvador Dali sparklers are minimal in color. I just went through my dug Akro box to look at the colors up close and found one which didn't make the cut to get into this picture because it was so dull. I'm sure I have a couple of not-too-colorful round sparklers somewhere but I can't find them right now.

Just out of curiosity, what does that cover of that box look like?

I presumed it was about manufacturer. The qualification to be a Sparkler is Akro made it and called it a Sparkler. The qualification for being a Sunburst is Master made it ... and called at least some of them Sunbursts ... though I think the Sunburst name has been generalized to a larger variety of Master marbles than Master may have intended it for. Edit to add: And to me Hansel's marbles look like they were made by Akro. Except for the stone agates of course.

You often hear about ghost cores. I don't know about dark cores.

I immediately thought Sparklers. So I'll put in one vote for them.