Steph

I WISH!

I was looking for a excuse to keep this thread going. Hoped these would do. P.s., any idea who all made stripedy ceramics would be welcome. The big one is a sweet glossy American Marble and Toy mib. The one on the right looks different. Not glossy for one thing, and the coloring look doesn't seem close.

Let's stall it on Aventurine for a moment. lol

I'm intrigued there are a couple which might look like Vits. I've noticed that in other Master packaging - mibs which in a standalone ID would likely be called Vit. I believed them to be Master but they sure made me do a double take. I went through about 500 Masters recently making notes on them. That was an adventure. The mibs had been pre-id-ed as Masters by people at shows and so forth. I was only making notes on particular style names within the Master line. On several I had to say something like, "If indeed this is Master, it seems the style name would be Sunburst." Because in a standalone ID with just that marble and no source given, I wouldn't want to have been the one ID-ing the maker.

I also posted a number of mibs in the ID section. I got some input and am grateful but not every question was answered. David, you've answered some of them already at Marble Mental. I purposely posted on different boards though to get as many opinions as I could. Sometimes different groups have different naming traditions and I wanted to get a good feel for that. In any case, more input would sure be welcome. Thanks. "lets all fight and argue." ???? Lots of people are trying to do more than fight. Acknowledging that wouldn't hurt.

There are lots of nice threads on the board. Lots of pix. Even a fair number of mibs waiting for ID. Do you really not see them?

Check this out! Out of this world! http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/2760

Looking at some of the early posts in this thread, I see some broken links and/or missing pictures. I don't know how well I will be able to straighten them all out. In the meantime, here is the specific photo I was looking for while reading those posts - a box of Master brand Uniques posted by Ron (Ron from Georgia).

Here's one which is sorta of interesting. I don't know whose picture this is. At first I thought the packaging was an error. I thought perhaps Cloudys were put in a Meteor box. However, Master advertised Meteors as translucent marbles. They said Meteors included "Green Moss Agates". The packaging is looking better and better. (click to enlarge)

Peace and prayers to Gail, Amy and Windy.

Neat one Jeff! Oh and everyone ! yup, this is one of those times where it's better not to name names! While I'm in the neighborhood hunting for ID's . . .

Happy marbling!

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your night out!

red in Explorer 7 yup, black in Firefox but I only use that for special things coz it seems slower navigating. Or at least it used to. Explorer has been slow lately. Maybe I'll give Firefox another try.

It's a relief to hear I'm not the only person seeing weird stuff on the internets lately. Sometimes I seem to get unlimited voting. Sometimes it doesn't seem to register. I got some other weird things at other sites too. Thought my computer might be on its way to meltdown.

I think that's the general topic in this pinned thread: "cooking", Restorers who "Cook" / Reheat. It hasn't been an easy question to get answered. You might have the best shot at it by posting it in the main forum so more people will see it. That was sort of the plan from the beginning for this forum. Questions could be asked in the main forum and then they could be moved here when they had run their course over there.

I'm having a similar problem with the new content button. I didn't notice it at first because it gave me a couple of new threads. Later I realized it didn't give me all the threads which had been responded to since my last log in.

Thanks BJ. you oughta see it in hand. lol

Thanks all! I shall have a few more Master questions over the next coupla days. I'll put them in the ID section. Please check it out.

KEWL

Thanks Steve. I was thinking of the Joker II run. But I'm pretty sure it's not a Jabo in any case. It came in a group of interesting older marbles. P.s., Thanks Mike. I think that's what happened in the Joker II run also. It "went black".

Heres a pic: The aventurine ribbon is backwards s-shaped, and keeps on one side of the marble. There is a sort of ribbon of clear glass which meets up with either end of the aventurine ribbon. Not any really obvious seams but I'm still seeing it closer to a patch and/or ribbon type of marble than to a swirl, say.

Who besides Pelt in the 1920's/1930's and Jabo in 2008 made marbles with in your face sparkling black aventurine? Thanks!

Nice new banner. I like the gallery pix across the top of the home page. Cool to see mibs first thing, and more people will be aware of the gallery now. Looks like there is an option to embed videos now. It didn't work for me when I tried it, but my computer might be blocking the image. I've had problems viewing videos on other sites also.