Nantucketdink

Ann-does yours have a thin line of aventurine twirling around it too?

It all depends...Do you collect JABOs or fantasy bags...or neither? What were you hoping they might be? It is definitely easier to study and appreciate marbles outside of bags.

A pair of tornadoes

lutz cats of course (even if they must be handmades )

Were there different photos up earlier? There is no red marble on the right. What size are these?

OK, it looks like AAM is down for the count and I need a new primary residence. Hi! My name is Josh Dinklage. I am a 45 year old male who grew up with the nickname "Dink." I live on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts and you can call me Nantucketdink. I live with my girlfriend/fiancé Tracy and our 6 year old daughter Dory...and our 2 year old yellow lab dog Fisher. I have only been collecting marbles for about 4 years, but I have been doing it intensely. I am a passionate JABO, Sammy's Mountain Marbles, and Dave's Appalachian Swirls collector. When I say passionate, what I really mean is that I am obsessed, addicted, highly motivated, and driven. My collecting goal is to try to get an example of every different marble made by these companies. I also collect Vacors with my daughter and have modest collections of Champions, Vitros, Ravenswoods, Cairos, Heatons, Jacksons, MKs, and other machine mades. I really like Dave McCullough's marbles more than anybody else's if that wasn't clear enough already. Marbles tell a story and I love discovering new and interesting adventures that I find in the marbles. I also love fishing and have recently rediscovered the fun of building stuff with Legos with my kid. I enjoy the hobby much more by sharing it with others and the internet is my best resource for this at the moment.

Could we see these please if they are similarly sized?

2006

Sorry about the eggs...they are newer fakes. I stumbled across them while looking for something else. Carry on.

Eggs

JABO RDR Birthday "Zebra"

JABO Tie Dye

Sorry I can't take a decent photo of these it is too hard for the camera I am using.

Ann We already have a couple in post 5 ...but I would be happy to try to show you some more of mine where you can actually see them lit up. There's only one machine made out there that looks like that marble with the blue aventurine too.

Here are a dozen 3/4" JABO March Madness marbles for comparison

I believe the 3/4" marble in question is from JABO March Madness in 2008.

Cool beans ...I mean beads

The glass marbles are almost all Vacors and JABOs as the others have said.

It is when I am talking

I use the term "Same Run" to refer to modern machine made marbles that were made during the known same session of marble making. The term "Same Run" has great use when referring to JABOs, Sammy's Mountain Marbles, and DAS. It is also used correctly with some modern runs of Vitros, Champions, Peltiers, and Mid Atlantics IMHO.

Did I hear a discussion of marbles and soap in this thread...

There are both a Vacor and a Classic JABO out there in those colors too that are routinely mistaken for the Akro in the same colors because people may not know that they exist. That being said, I can't tell which one this is from what I can see.

...so what you all are telling me is that all of the best, brightest, and most interesting "CACs" I have looked at over the past few years in books and on the internet are just modern handmades passed off as old marbles... How many exotics have been bought and sold? How many marbles are we talking about?

Here's a group shot with its relatives.

I wouldn't call that marble a clearie even though it is transparent. I agree that transparent one color clearies without swirl patterns showing are almost impossible to attribute. I wouldn't lump this marble in with those at all. That pink and the green as it is starting to come in is very memorable for me, but I sorted through over 10,000 marbles just from that one run. That run is actually referred to as the Summer tankwash that year and not Spring as I said earlier. There were a lot of footballs in that stage of the run that came in the multiple cases of marbles I got from it, more than normal. There is enough pink in that marble that if you hit it with a blacklight it would light up I think (that is if that pink was UV reactive to begin with which a lot of it was).