Steph

hmmmm ... there must be someone ......

Is this one metallic?

lol

Maybe someone will yet be willing to take a swing at an estimate for that particular corkscrew. You have to keep condition in mind though. I think I see some tiny fractures. Are there any other condition issues?

There's a very wide range in cork prices. Did you check out Bob Block's book yet? Does it have updated prices? In his older edition he would give prices for basic corks in different categories (such as prizename and popeye, if I recall correctly). And then he'd give multipliers for when they had special features. Like it might be worth 2 times as much or 1.5 times as much with a certain feature. I once used the multipliers in his older edition -- used about three at once which I thought applied to the same marble -- and ended up with an estimated value of about $2500. I eventually sold the marble for $80 to someone I trusted to tell me straight what the value was. I wasn't sure about my grading at the time, and so I asked about that and about what he really thought the marble was worth. It was a wet mint marble (which I had been afraid to say in my description) and he said he would have paid $100 for it if he had a chance to view it in hand at a show. My point? Ummm ... not sure .... oh yeah ... there's really not a simple formula -- there's not even a standard corkscrew. The most common corkscrews probably sell for less than a dollar. Others sell for hundreds.

That was you! Cool. I didn't know your name. I have felt envy and admiration over that particular panel of Cairos. I am fond of Cairos.

Love these. Where do you find them?

Nice. Can you imagine planning and assembling those? Ann, are you sure you don't want one?

You gave it away! Did you peek or did you know?

Just reading Alan's old Vacor page and it sounds like Vacor may have used "Trébol" for their modern cat's eye's ... whatever it meant in 1944 ... if indeed the history found at the Vacor site was accurate about making Trébols in 1944. Still hoping to find out where the info about Vitro making cats in 1954 came about. Not yet hoping hard enough to write the book authors who gave that date. But thinking about it. That's probably what I should do, eh?

I suppose I should go to a Dollar Tree sometime. I always send my personal shopper for the groceries and he doesn't take many risks.

Quiz time. Guess which are Peltier and which are Carl Fishers. Answer here: http://www.carlfishermarbles.com/

I looked up ESPN ... hoping ... and I did see where Rolley Hole supposedly made it to the bigtime .... at least a mention.

so simple yet so beautiful

There's a reason I try to stick with the names Akro gave the marbles. But I don't know what name Akro gave the one like Lavincen showed above ... or the somewhat similar one Bill just posted with the blue and translucent green. (That's yummy, Bill!) Interesting to hear that some classify them as snakes. The cork ribbon really pops against those translucent bases.

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/6300451-74/county-national-division#axzz351hIpfvj Does it get any coverage in any of the news outlets you watch? Does ESPN mention it?

Whoa!

From Alan's Cairo Novelty page

Nice conversation piece

That old one is pretty cool. The others are nice but the old one is especially so.

I didn't see a name for the artist on that page, but perhaps it is Kohei Nawa. More marble animals here: http://www.designswan.com/archives/stunning-glass-art-sculptures-made-of-glass-beads.html

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