Steph

Have a great one Ant! Looks like you already got some birthday marbles!

Why the heck you bury this in Marble ID! [click click move forum click confirm thank you] That's a handful! Yummy.

Some of the 1" Jabo classics had practically identical motion to some of the Vitro Parrots. Hint hint. lol. Oxblood parrots would be da bomb!

do ya play for mibs?

sounds good to me.

Gotcha!

Thanks Ric. What do you mean by not the "best" example? Do you mean not typical? or?

Do you see one at Joemarbles? If it's there I'm being blind. (which has happened before)

Anyone have an Alley coral? The only pic I recall offhand of a possible Alley coral is hidden in a mesh bag. Not much to go on for any sort of generalization. Would love to see another. Thanks.

Bottomed out! lol OMG looks like it goes halfway up your door! We didn't get that much snow! Some, but not that much. But we did have a pet-related adventure in the front yard this morning. I went out to shovel and heard a loud frantic call from the thorny bushes up against our porch. I couldn't tell for sure if it was a cat or a large bird. But eventually we managed to extricate a kitten. A bushy tailed black kitten, maybe a few months old. Fed him, watered him, dethorned him, found him a home. What a rush. Our grown boy cats weren't happy about it but everyone is settled down now.

Pretty sure that page is Bill Kirk's brainchild. Don't wanna take credit for it. I posted a response to one of his pix just to show appreciation. Haven't contributed anything else . . . yet. But funny thing - I just met another marble collector through facebook. A friend of my husband's from his hometown. Just chatting and marbles came up. So I sent her that link. . . . and one to our recent stone marble thread here. She likes mineral spheres. :-)

I understand your reluctance to post the pix Sue, but I really appreciate them. Pretty big difference , , , "obvious" , , , now that you point it out! By the way, a question about this auction was posted at GA. I invoked your name as someone who could tell 'em more than I was able to. I guess I could just post a link over to here. But I've already posted forty eleven times in that thread so I'll leave it to you to comment if you choose.

oh wow that's brilliant!

I was intrigued by what looked as if it might be an authentic sort of wear. However, reliable sources say fake. Made by that same guy in Lauscha whom JVV mentioned in the recent fake china thread.

Don't forget Carole! Her marble donation inspired the contest. Thanks Carole! And congrats Gene!

Go Buckeyes! Uh, no offense. Just in a sporty mood.! lol

Congrats to Gene in the contest for all the marbles!

Did you find this site yet? I hope the link works. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=208395857271&ref=ts

What a game!

Two of my favorite people were named Eugene . . . so I happen to like the name. For WHATEVER that is worth!

Still a couple of numbers in the 40's not taken. And then there are the 60's, for anyone who doesn't want to yell Defense! (lol) Kickoff time is almost here! Here's the udated list of what's taken, for any of you last minute bidders: 15, 17, 19 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 68 70 94 (usual disclaimer: if I have recorded everything correctly)

Well there is Lucky Dog. They do logo marbles and chinese checkers sets. That's not "history" though. It's current, as far as I know.

http://marblemental.yuku.com/

LOL. Yeah, me too.