Steph

I flippin dreamt about this marble last night! And then we all got together and reexamined all our marbles for unnoticed guineas.

Brass and copper luster? How was that effect achieved? p.s., the pink is yummy

cute!

Put that pic as desktop background ... to see if Jimmy has seen the batter .....

I don't know Hot House values. But here's a link for the auction. http://www.ebay.com/itm/221203124089

lol ... I haven't started downloading yet. I only made notes. Like when they planned ahead which aisles to hit first on Supermarket Sweep.

Hmmmmmm .....

Check out the boxes and ephemera!

Mt. Fuji lenticular clouds

Well here's an old thread on it. I know there are more to add.

I have a big long list somewhere but I'd kinda like see what others have to add before I bust it out. I know I already need to add one more thing to that list. Just have to remember what it was! lol

Neat! Thanks for sharing!

Hello Chris. I think that these are all contemporaries -- that is, made relatively recently. But I've never seen one quite like that first one. I'm going to move this to the main forum so that more people who know contemporaries will see it.

a blue bullet mold ... interesting

I think about Alan often. Was just thinking about his archived marble company information last night.

No problem!

side note for future reference: apparently a Portuguese word for marbles is "berlindes".

I think there's more than one version. A couple of the text translations I am seeing make me think it was a nail tossing game. Possibly where you tried to stick the nail in the sand using different styles of throw. http://jogostradicionais.net/jogo-do-prego/ Translation, maybe: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjogostradicionais.net%2Fjogo-do-prego%2F&act=url The videos I'm seeing so far show people hammering large metal nails into wooden stumps.

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Very interesting. And pretty. Wonder if the seller is more disappointed at having no buyers than they would have been at the nails going for $10.

That would be so cool to have marbles you sprinkled yourself!

Do you think the 2nd auction has already been purchased by someone? It's possible that it is "no longer available" in part due to your message. Possibly the owner decided to take them off the market until they could reassess what they had. It would be nice if they responded to you to let you know.

It's the little kid laughing along with the grownups and then he suddenly realizes he doesn't know what they're all laughing at.