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    Super!
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    Love it!
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    Thank you for sharing your findings.
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    What an intricate sulphide. Congratulations. (p.s. and I like the Sureshot box too -- the auction description says Heaton Agates, but I personally would assume Alley until I heard otherwise from a select group of trusted individuals)
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    Some Perfectly Timed Pictures
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    LOL Mark! (Condolences to your wife. ) Bob, I've also had trouble trying to use special characters. Not sure why it doesn't work.
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    Very lovely.
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    Look at all those exquisite moss agates!
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    The date I wrote down for this ad was March 1892. I think from the Butler Brothers catalog. This might be getting close to yours in size. "Extra Large Spangles .... big as a hen's egg". (Spangle was the old name for onionskin.) If I'm reading it correctly, a dealer would have bought a dozen extra large marbles for 75 cents. So 6 or 7 cents per marble for the dealer. And then whatever the markup would be ....
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    Here is an 1896 ad from the Chicago Tribune. 25 glass marbles for 5 cents. I'm sure these would have been regular playing sized marbles and I don't know how the price would translate to very large marbles. Or how the price would compare to marbles sold 20 years earlier. But this a little something and I might still be able to come up with older and/or bigger.
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    I think it might only have been a few cents. The ad I'm looking at to make that guess was from a catalog for dealers from 1900 or so, so I'm fudging here, and I'll try to look for some better information. Or maybe Bob or someone has the information handy. As awesome as it is, it might have been as inexpensive as candy. Very cheap labor in Germany from what I understand. It was made by hand, not machine. There are modern videos available where people use what is probably a similar technique. And Paul Baumann's book, Collecting Antique Marbles, has some drawings and photographs showing the process -- at least in the 4th edition, which is the one I'm holding, and I bet in earlier editions.
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    Hello Mark. Great heirloom. For some reason, the earliest date I associate with that style of marble is 1856. Not sure quite why that date sticks out in my mind, but it might be when a certain tool was invented related to the manufacture of glass marbles. Or maybe the beginning of one of the famous marble making factories. It was made in Germany. I'm less sure about the name of the style. I think maybe 4-panel onionskin. One of these days I really need to learn those names. Someone else should be by shortly to set that part of the story straight.
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    How cute!
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    Interesting graphics on this colorful box from ebay auction of calvinandhobbsplace The Soldiers of the Queen, Infantry of the Line. England expects that every man will do his duty.
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    beautiful
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    Sure thing.
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    Not oxblood. Oxblood red is opaque and tends to be dark. The first three look like Jabos to me. The one on the right is Asian -- a style which is still being made. Would cost a few cents.
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    The marbles in this last group look like they could be mostly Jabo Classics. Which would have been made after 1991. Maybe some value to the right person. Not high dollar.
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    Yes, they need to make more yummy pink! (and thank you again, Edna ) ... p.s., I'm still puzzling over the mica
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    Well n2marbles prolly should have posted it himself! He is a member and all. Ebay plugs are perfectly legit. This is an auction which deserves attention. The good kind. $.02 -s
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    That awesome Master bag is for sale?! And the amazing scenic china. I just noticed that.
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    Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
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    My guess just from the colors would have been Pelt. But I don't recognize that pattern with those colors.
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