Steph

There's a different seller who currently has gobs of fake chinas listed. He was cited in recent Marble ID as something who "usually does pretty well with ID’s". His fake chinas were brought up on facebook yesterday and he seems very upset about the negative attention. I'm not naming names because since he has a pretty good rep, maybe he really doesn't know, and maybe he will educate himself, and maybe he'll take the criticism to heart about how the fakes are making his legit listings look a bit less appealing. If this other guy is brought up in a month or so and he still has them, I'll be on board with saying that he knows exactly what he is doing because he is most definitely on notice.

Yup, that would be a lot to pay for a fake just to have a chance to post the truth on the guy's feedback. He would be laughing all the way to the bank.

For the record, the star version came before the magic marker version. Back in the 1990's. Was one of the earliest Atlanta fakes. The star version was made with a kindergarten gold star attached to the mill ball, and the color applied around it. @hrjaneonce showed a lot she bought where one had the star still attached. Seller could believe it's real. A lot of people have been duped by them. Someone on facebook was recently swearing up and down that hers had to be real and she was so passionate that I believed she believed it. Even though she claimed she found them in the 1970's, which was 20 years too early. People's memories can be faulty. Maybe she found some clays in the 1970's and got confused about it being these. Who knows. A lot of people got duped and don't want to believe they were duped. So is this seller an intentional duper or a dupee? Who knows.

^^ I'm a woman of few words these days.

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I'll vote yes

Looking like oxblood to me.

I want it to be a slag with minimal action. I want that to be a sweet placement of that minimal action, illustrating the internal twisting of the handgathered marble. Is that too much to ask for?

I'm not seeing enough structure to think of it as a WV swirl. So I'm leaning Jabo. Champion would be my next choice if I had to go WV.

On left, yes to Akro Prize Name and Peltier Rainbo. On top right, Vitro or Akro. I'm leaning Vitro at the moment. On bottom right, don't even have a good guess.

What a treasure, Jeff. Those really deserve their own thread. Thanks for filling in some gaps.

Wow. Interesting. I see why both of those makers occurred to you. I do not know the answer.

This week I finished my cullet collection for the foreseeable future ... and my pretty new oxbloods wanted to be in the picture. Please no one tempt me with hunks of popeye or sparkler cullet. I couldn't handle it.

Interesting question ... how much should one expect to have to pay to get a Vitro confetti into one's collection if not gifted it? I don't know.

!!!!! ???? !!!!! You really ripped that bandaid off, didn't you. No time for suspense.

Already having second thoughts because I didn't think about opalescence. I just looked at it and it simply looked like Alley at first glance. I haven't examined many Alleys for opalescence though. I don't know if that makes a difference.

I feel pretty good about calling that Alley.

Not sure. I'll bump the thread though. Might be three different makers.

Hey, Reddit has a marble forum. That shouldn't surprise me. Obviously I don't know how reliable any of the posts are over there, but this one goes along with what I was thinking ... just plain yellow and green being kinda special .... So, assuming whoever made this picture knew what they were talking about, I think this is as close as I'm gonna get tonight to what I was looking for.

Alley Mountain Dew was one of the names floating around fuzzily in my head. Might need more transparent for that. But ballpark? looking for a name... - General Marble & Glass Chat - Marble Connection At least another term to help in the search engines ...

It's _like_ an Alley coral, but with yellow instead of coral. The corals have a place in our collective marble collector hearts, so they get more screentime and are easier to find in search engines. So ... for now ... this is the best I'm getting. But I'm still digging. https://marbleconnection.com/topic/30229-who’s-coral/?do=findComment&comment=261693

I'm still feeling Alley. I'm feeling like if I tagged one of our Alley gurus, they would say, "Of course, don't you remember, I posted one of those in the Alley picture thread five years ago." And I would blush because I tagged them instead of doing the legwork myself. So now off I go to look in the Alley picture thread so I don't get embarrassed.

My first thought was also CAC. If there's another side of the fence here the only thing I can think of is Alley. And if Alley I'd guess it was a special one.

Another of those complicated questions. Maybe you'd get the same amount of money for 5 or 10 or 20 or 60. With eBay it can be a matter of luck and how much time you want to put into it. I'll just throw out a figure of 15 to 20 because your groups with those numbers look attractive to me. Other people might find other numbers appealing. Maybe you'll want to do a variety of auctions at the same time to get people interested in combining wins. Maybe some will have more and some have less and you can figure out what is working out best for you.