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I thought I was being facetious. Edit: Images in post #13: Linkees no workee? So..............................are they all onion skins......or what? Price Guide 5th ed.: "Joseph's Coat Swirls are swirls that have an outer layer of glass that is composed of variously colored similar-width complete strands, packed very closely together." Price Guide 4th ed., page 24: "Joseph's Coat Swirls are swirls that have a sub-surface layer of glass that is composed of different colored strands, placed very closely together." According to all of the pics and descriptions of onion skins, joseph's coats, banded opaques, and end of days in the 4th ed of the price guide, any of these 4 names can be applied to any marble fitting any of the descriptions for all of the above. "A banded opaque has an opaque to transparent base glass." pg.34 "The base glass of a Joseph's coat can either be clear or colored" under Joseph's Coat Swirls and End of Days pg 24 ONIONSKIN - an end of day marble where the flecks of glass are stretched such that the core resembles the skin of an onion." pg 174, Glossary "An end of day onionskin has a transparent base glass, usually clear. The marble can have either a colored core, or a transparent, clear core....Generally the base color is white or yellow..." pg 48 Bottom line: since we have no records of names of these marbles from their makers, anyone can name them anything they want. Re: post #1: I kind of think those 4 mibs resemble onionskins so I say they're onionskins. You all can call them whatever you want, but I'd still have to see a pic before I'd bid on anything looking like them.

Has anyone checked w/ Bert Cohen?

OK now I don't know anymore.... page 7: "END OF DAY - ONIONSKINS have an overall base color with streaks of one or more colors all over. For the most part, these colors run from pole to pole. Some of the colors look like an onionskin(sic), thus..." "END OF DAY JOSEPH'S COATS marbles are those with designs close to the surface and all around the marble. Usually containing multiple colors and at least one black..." Glad that's all cleared up!

Bottom left is an onionskin, others are Joseph's Coat's...according to Stanley (Antique Glass End of Day Marbles, Stanley Block) Pg 101: the defs being the same but with Joseph's Coats having "...at least one black or dark blue strand in the design."

Thanks! So a peacock, a bit under the weather.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...E:X:AAQ:US:1123 ...do I hear $30?

Thanks! I forgot that Steph had posted here, on my behalf (how rude of me!) & thanks Steph. Can't post w/o using an upload quota: Mks or Vitros? 2nd pic is of all in 1st pic rotated forward 180 degrees and 3rd pic are 90 degree pivots from 2nd pic

Blended Ruby Bee & Girl Scoutsthen this from the I.D's thread:

Those are square marbles from Japan! They were designed like that because they can be stacked for storage, requiring less room, a big consideration in the design of all things, Japanese .

Hi! Ears burnin'. That like these?