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...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).

It looks exactly like a JABO 2011 Spring Tankwash to me.

How is it possible we are just finding out about a 60 year old machine made marble company now? This is really cool news to me. How many other marble factories are still out there hiding in the world?

It's a Fall 2000 JABO and many examples of that particular marble display a similar partial cork like swirl.

JABO

The shooters in question are JABOs from the later 90s.

What are your thoughts about when the first Vacor swirls were made? I believe early Vacors are still one of the major mysteries in our hobby.

Can we see some photos of the marbles please.

How many 3/4" marbles are typically made in an hour? I have no clue. Did they tell you to expect a lot more than 5 boxes? There isn't anything written about that in the Ebay ads at all. When I read the Ebay listings it reads like a full share buy in person would only be getting the marbles made during one hour of the run and wouldn't get any from the rest of the run. Is that what you were expecting or did you have a different agreement than the Ebay listing? I read all of Dare's listings you linked to and he said in all of them that some of the Cancer colors would be used. It didn't say all of them would be used anywhere that I could find. It sucks things didn't go the way you expected them to go.

It sounds like people like flamey floaters (me too)

It looks just exactly like a nice Champion New Old Fashioned to me, but I don't know my CACs well enough. Are there CACs just like that too?

Triple Rainbows and a Fall 2011 peewee

This Rainbow silver oxblood type is another example of a style of JABO I like very much. It's JABO's version of an auger with oxblood horsehair. The pair of purple Odysseys are fantastic for their JABO style flames incorporated with unique JABO shades of colors. I am celebrating 3 years in the hobby today and am still as gaga for JABOs as I was 3 years ago upon discovering them.

I like this What A Tribute 1" JABO because of the way the colors blend and it incorporates a lutz swirl (and possibly a little bit of JABO oxblood). It does all of this within the classic JABO single fold structure and yet the very simple pattern of the fold is what makes it so cool. Stacked blended JABOs like this are one of the many reasons I really like JABOs.

There have already been 2 more D.A.S. runs since the crystal supermen (Test 4). Might be a new "it" you haven't had a chance to see yet.

Double Dork (Double D.A.S. corkscrew?)...Jorkscrews and Smorkscrews? ying yang ramshead chevron

I love the Mega marbles Fiestas too. The ones with thick bold ribbons are great marbles.

Here are a few of the marbles Dave made at JABO with superman type colors. Some with transparent glass and some without. 2003, a carnival glass one from 2003, What a Tribute, and Encore. There are some excellent Encores out there in the superman colors.

Here are some of the brighter marbles from the test that I think are fantastic. Do most of the Peltier ramshead/chevron pattern marbles have similar indentations?

There are some additional Vitro cats with a light tan base and I have seen a Vaseline glass cat before too. I don't know if Vaseline glass technically qualifies as a colored base, but I think it does.

Size?

Galen-I have always known you were the real deal. You are in it for the marbles. There are different marbles in my keepers box, but whatever price I paid for each one was worth it to me.