Steph

Thanks for sharing!

I thought I remembered someone credible -- was it Galen? -- saying that there was more recent evidence that the one on the right was actually legit. I'm prepared to be informed that I just imagined that! LOL. The memory is fuzzy.

Wish I had better pix of real Master boxes to compare details such as texture of the box, detail of the print, etc. And I wish I knew all the dimensions involved. That would be good too for future reference. Here is one box. Obviously different from the one in the auction. Different depiction of marbles on front, different layout of print, different location of colors, different MMM logo. Another box. Still different. American Machine-Made Marbles shows a couple of other Sunbeam boxes. Still different from auction pic of course. Grist's Big Book has yet another longer box. Still no match in the graphics. Of course. Was there actually a variation of the sunbeam design just like the one in the auction?

If it's new, any idea who the artist might be? The other boxes the seller has listed are fantasy boxes. There's "Vitro" box as the 2nd pic of a "Peltier" box auction. Does it look familiar? Well, those are some pretty marbles. I hope it brings more than the current (minimum) bid, or I'll seriously regret not having bid on it. ( :

Santa-Claus-y

http://www.amazon.de/Murmeln-Schusser-Klicker-Renee-Holler/dp/3880342938 Murmeln, Schusser, Klicker, by Renee Holler Sounds like it might be more about games than about particular marbles but ???

Those tutti frutti colors literally made my drool. Well, not drool. But salivate!

For no particular reason -- a moonstone ring someone posted on facebook. I like! Source: facebook page of CRYSTALS MINERALS GEMSTONES FOSSILS ROCKS To try to make it mildly relevant: I still wonder what it was that kids would have called "moonies" circa 1900. Would it have been a marble made of moonstone? Might it have been onyx? What else could have been a candidate? Which translucent stones did people make marbles out of? Or should I be thinking of something made of glass. Like mellonballs.

Awwwwwwwww

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Lots of glitter in spite of the lighting.

Sure looks Akro to me fwiw

This one is elegant!

Putting balloons on the shopping list now.

lol - yes - how fun!

Thanks for the bigger pix, Mindy.

Buh-ling!!!

Here is a Kevin Nail I love. Specially made for me. A gift from a friend. It's a very tight auger which you can see from the side. From other angles it looks like honey. Is it "fumed"? Oh gosh, I need to ask someone. That's something a person should know about their Kevin Nail marbles, huh?

Hi Lindsey. I moved this thread to the main forum to get more people to have a look at it. Here's another option you might pursue -- it's a forum which specializes in contemporary marbles. It has many members who make marbles. http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/

The shepherd's crook on this one makes me think of Cairo novelty. Ric? At least I'd say swirl not cork.

stellar!