Steph

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!

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.