Nantucketdink

Those 5/8" aquarius marbles aren't contract run marbles and are post McCullough. I believe they sold for $75 per case a year ago directly to people on ebay. There are 2500 of them in a 25 pound box. Cases of similar JABO marbles in 2007 were sold for $20 per 25 pound box. None of this relates to the contract run JABO marble prices.

Are they sending them out with IOUs these days? Are you asking if a marble goon will show up at your front door in a few months if you don't pay the bill? Personally, I wouldn't want to find out anybody's skills around recouping their due funds. People do what they have to do to get money owed to them. You did ask about credit ability, right?

...and to answer the original question, I would think that the seller does not measure his marbles with calipers or circle templates. It is obvious from the sizes listed in his listings.

Gnome-Bob will read your posts eventually so please be respectful. Very few marble sellers accurately ID all the mibs they sell.

It's pretty scary when you actually figure out how much you have spent on your own marble collection. 25K sounds like a newbie collection to me.

You would imagine most people would notice the size difference off the bat.

I believe those are JABOs. Thanks for sharing.

Does anybody out there have an identical pair of machine made swirls? I mean the pattern is an exact match between 2 (or more) marbles? Exact means exact, not close or similar.

I think rare and hard to find are very different terms. When I hear "Rare" I am thinking about a marble that was produced in extremely limited quantities and/or very few are still known to exist. HTF is a very subjective term to me that means in my personal experience I have had great difficulty finding an example of a particular marble whether or not it is a rare speciman in reality. HTF means very few are available to buy to me. There could be thousands of HTF examples in strong hands under lock and key and they would still be HTF if very few were for sale.

My uncle Bill removed the lead shot from a shotgun shell and replaced them with a marble. He rigged the shell so it would shoot upward when slammed to the ground. He then proceeded to slam it to the floor on the first floor of my grandmother's house. She had a nice little skylight that went through the ceiling/floor of the second floor and out the tin roof of their house. I heard this story numerous times while growing up, but I doubt anybody else has ever used marbles to make a two story sky light in their mother's house.

2003 JABO classic. Were the swirl type classics actually sold at Walmart?

I would imagine that one ended up a lot smaller than originally planned.

They are 2004 JABOs

Joanne Argabrite and Jack Bogard, the JA and BO in JABO are still there producing marbles.

I use the term "cullet marble" to describe a marble that is going to be remelted into another marble. The piece of glass is already in the shape of a marble, but it is going to be remelted and used to make a hopefully better marble.

I believe the word "tankwash" is also being used by some people specifically in reference to Jabo marbles to define a specific amount of how much glass was put through the machine during a session of marble making. For example, a "run" of Jabo marbles would define a ton or more of glass used in a session of making marbles, a "tankwash" would define 201-1999 pounds of glass put through the machine during a session of making marbles, and a "test" would define 200 or less pounds of glass put through the machine during a specific marble making session. This terminology is not widespread yet, but quantifiable definitions of marble terms specific to Jabo marble making would be benefitial to future Jabo collectors. Quantifiable definitions of all applicable marble terms would be helpful to all collectors and sellers. People jump all over sellers for misusing terms like "rare," "vintage," and "antique" and yet the same people won't put a number to go with a definition.

Turn it a little bit more...I think I see the Riddler.

Thanks for the Bennett timelines (70s through at least 1992).

Thanks for sharing. That is a fantastic looking marble.

I don't know anything about the Harold Bennet marbles and would like to learn about them. Do you or anybody else have a timeline for when these comic marbles were made?

I think you have to decide for yourself if you have a problem collecting damaged marbles. Don't worry about what others think. Most people typically only display one side of a marble anyways and that marble may spend the the rest of your lifetime with the good side displayed. Buying damaged marbles is a great way to add beautiful marbles to a collection for cheap. It is your collection. Collect what you like and pay what it is worth to you. I hope you won the marble and nobody sniped it away from you because of your post here.

Happy Valentine's Day - marbles are so much more enjoyable when shared with a loved one. I hope you all have a marble lover in your life.