Steph

How fun! Congrats. I need a marble fix!

Nice. A special honor to be commemorated on a marble.

That's a nice range of color.

So sharp!

http://inhabitat.com...from-moonlight/

Those yellow and green rainbos are interesting ... is that yellow color smeared over a white base or does it go deep?

Bump for a name ... ever hopeful!

I looked up pink moonie on ebay and saw this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Marbles-Akro-Agate-Pink-Moonie-013111-12-S1-/190716778204 I am reasonably sure (pretty close to certain) that it is a modern Marble King. Do you want one? I think I still have some. Edit to add: Look at the Marble King site: http://www.marblekingusa.com/Color_Catalog.php . The "opal pink" ones are called solids, but obviously they are translucent. And they have fire.

Here's what someone, possibly Berry Pink, had to say about the moonie in 1955: thread with the SI article that came from There are some confusing marbles in the row next to the moonie description. I'm just pointing out the basic idea that "moonie" had different meanings. I like how whoever wrote that included bloodies in the moonie category.

Not sure about pink moonies ?? Akro and CAC are the ones that I know of who sold marbles officially called moons/moonies. But kids were calling marbles moonies before Akro or CAC were ever started. And in 1942 the word "moonie" appears to have been applied in a more general sense to marbles with a translucent base -- some Pelt Rainbos were identified as moonies in a Life magazine article. Check out pp. 56, 57 here. On p. 56 there's a box describing the marbles shown on p. 57. If you can zoom in you'll see the descriptions. http://books.google....id=KFAEAAAAMBAJ

Seems like a name I should know. Seems like I say that every time someone posts that color combo. One of these days I'm going to remember!

Check out that box with the transitionals!

For the historical end of the discussion, I just ran across this box in the Morphy auction Jeroen posted, so I thought I'd include it here. Estimate 1930's on these. I think early 1930's but don't want to pin it down. I was getting a later impression - maybe 1940's - from your mib, but am unsure since you got an orange glow.

Thanks!

Hope these links stay stable. From time to time I want to go back to an old auction. I'll start with a link posted in another thread today. I'll try to gather others. As always, anyone else feel free to add. Edit: Now I have six, which were easy to find in Morphy's list of past auctions. These are ones which were specially for marbles. Some of the other toy auctions might have marbles in them so will look more later. December 12, 2009 February 2010 November 6, 2010 May 21, 2011 December 3, 2011 (Baumann collection) May 26, 2012 October 20, 2012 April 19 & 20, 2013 December 13 & 14, 2013 December 13 & 14, 2014 May 30 & 31, 2015 September 10-12, 2015 December 18-20, 2015 June 24-26, 2016

Same people. They changed one of their many ebay names to marbleconnection in honor of us continuing to point out their fraud.

Two concerns I have with photos are (a) when the oxblood goes under clear glass sometimes we see it as translucent -- optical illusion -- and (b ) sometimes the oxblood is accompanied by other shades of red and we see that those other shades aren't oxblood so we rule out the whole thing.

Wow, you captured so much color.

Navarre?

Moment of silence and time for perspective ....

Nice pic.

In case the BST threads fly under your radar, check out Winnie's cat's eye premiums: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/17461-advertising-marble-bags/

I was just watching a marble making video and trying to picture where the corkscrew mechanism would be ... and I started to wonder why some factory or some individual with their own machine doesn't try to make corks again.

So do folks think this is in the Akro family? Bob, does the base glass have an orange glow when held to the light? The base looks sorta like some later Akros which didn't have the glow and did sometimes have oxblood.