Steph

That blue and orange just made me lose my breath when I opened the thumbnail!

I don't think ebay would be responsive to us no matter how many people contacted them. If a company with an active trademark to protect threatened them with legal action, they might care. But the last time I read their policies the kind of fraud I most object to didn't even seem to be against their rules. The things they most often consider rules violations seem to be things which stop them from getting money. If fraud raises the amount of money they can get -- like when someone forges an Akro box and convinces someone that it's real -- then they're happy to collect the bigger fee.

That is sharp!

Sorry for your loss. Our three boys are all 14 years old. Each moment is precious.

Thanks, Mike.

Hello. Agree with Pelt NLR. Date would be circa 1930. Looks like it could be a "burnt" something.

Is that from your area?

ZOMG!

nice pattern and colors!

That looks like a rat to me .....

That's a heckuva commute.

Lovely. If you don't keep looking, you won't find it. That bunch would sure tide me over until the next outing.

(from MarbleAlan's site)

I like how people are saying they requested the day off to go hunting.

The marble I just posted isn't a clambroth -- it's a gooseberry. (just in case that's the one you're gonna put lemon butter on)

Not necessarily marbles ... but could be .... Del Webber: https://www.facebook.com/delrocks He has a show at the Patricia Rovzar Gallery in Seattle opening Feb. 6.

You don't have any clambroths, do you? It may be a gimme what the photo would be, but I'd still like to see it. (:

In Collecting Antique Marbles, Paul Baumann gives tables of "relative rarity" with percentages for various colors and features, based on his observations of the marbles he had at his disposal. He tells the sample sizes he derives his figures from. I just tried to skim to remind myself of where the samples came from -- whether they were all his or were ones he had access to in other collections -- but I couldn't find that little bit of info. If you don't have this book in your collection, I recommend it.

lulz. cute.

If it was the auction I got with a search, which ended on the 24th, that looks like poly clay. One clue might be the price. I don't mean that sarcastically. I just remember when gutta perchas were selling for hundreds (or was that over a thousand?).

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