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Here is the best I could do without spending much time on it.

What is that green/black one in Plummerme's pic?

Yes, that's it. When I shine a maglite through it, I can see light but can't actually see through the marble, so I call it translucent, not transparent, although there is a BIT of transparency. The middle is ESSENTIALLY opaque, or maybe it's just too dense to show much light through it, but there is a little light that does show even there. I certainly wouldn't call this a transparent marble. Maybe later, I'll try to get backlit pictures of it.

The red is somewhat brownish around the edges, don't know if I'd call it burnt. And now I'm sorta confused about the upper left marble...I always thought it was a Superboy, but it has no blended yellow, just what you see in the photo...the other sides are pretty much the same way.

Well, if you saw the other side of two of them, you would see that the top left one is a Superboy, and the bottom right one is a Superman...but I meant about the top right one, it is SO much more attractive than any ordinary Spiderman on an opaque base. I still maintain that it deserves a special name, like Super Spiderman

If mine isn't a sub, what is it? It deserves a name! I think it beats any old sub in appearance.

There is very little transparent. It is translucent blue around most of the perimeter, with the center being pretty much opaque. The red is only on the surface, and the translucent blue causes the dark outlines around the red ribbons. There is no color sinking into the blue, as far as I can tell. Peltier made lots of transparent marbles with colors sinking into the transparent, so that would make submarines pretty common, right? And it's my understanding that they are quite unusual, like this Spiderman is. I bought it several years ago, and if you got the id for it on this board, that would mean some of those Pelt people who were posting here back then, must've given it to you.

OK Orbboy, where are you, I got that marble from you a few years ago and you said it was a submarine

What is the definition? I have one (upper right) and a couple others in the picture have some translucency, especially around the perimeter, but they look different from the other one. Bottom right one is completely opaque, for comparison.

Ok Rich, you asked for more participation... I must say that all the marbles you show here are exactly the type that I avoid. I don't like any of those color schemes, if they even have color schemes. I usually don't like pastels, or lots of white, prefer deep primary colors, and usually not too many colors in one marble. Don't like clear bases, prefer flames to swirls, don't usually like lutz. Must have a busy pattern all over. Ok, I'll go back where I came from now

Yeah, I caught everybody sleeping on those.

The marbles...or the fact that I finally bought some...?

These are my first two 1" experimental Jabos. They were made in mid-November. I know how to pick 'em, don't I! Got a bargain on both of them.

Did I embarrass you...I'm sorry. (hehheh)

I don't see how 2000-year-old marbles could be anything but just plain UGLY! I wouldn't have the slightest interest in them. And I'm sooooo sick right now that if anyone mentions M&Ms again, I think I'm going to have to lock myself in the bathroom for the rest of the night. The cat's sick too, and she's been lettin' it go all over the house. At least I still have enough willpower to get to the crapper...

If the above two photos were a listing on ebay, I'd pass it up. I don't see much of anything interesting in it. And it makes me think of M & Ms...and I'm SO deadly sick of anything sweet right now...

It's hard to imagine getting better deals at shows. It's not like there's any bidding, so naturally the sellers would ask the most that they think they can get.

...is when Marblealan is going to being selling more marbles like he always used to. I asked him if he's selling anywhere besides Ebay, and he said no, that he's working on "extricating myself from that horrible company." I'm just wondering how long it's going to take. I'm beginning to have some serious symptoms of marble-buying withdrawal.

I've come to the conclusion that Galen was right in calling CF's (or any clay marbles) "clay balls". Fortunately, I wasn't foolish enough to overspend on them. They are nice-looking marbles, but I'm not convinced that it takes any considerable talent to make them. And I don't know how anyone could be fooled into thinking a Carl Fisher marble is a CAC. Every CF marble I've owned (maybe twenty or so from when he began making them, to a couple years ago) has a shallow groove that runs the entire circumference of the marble. It's easy to see with magnification. I was one of the (nitwits) who encouraged him to put weights in his marbles because I thought he could sell them better if they weren't so light. I have one of the very first weighted marbles he ever made. He told me he quit making them because it was too hard to precisely center the weight in the marble so the marble wouldn't wobble drunkenly as it rolled. Could someone please post a picture of an exotic Peltier Citrus? I'd like to see what they look like. Hey, never mind about pics of those imaginary exotic citruses...

Did you ever get a refund? Here's a thread from late June of this year, about him. Seems there have been some ongoing problems with his listings. Link

This is the only John McCormick marble I have. Slightly under 21/32".

Hahaha (I mean the second pic) Link

I'm very picky. That's an understatement. And I hate to accumulate stuff. Also an understatement. Chances are that I wouldn't find even one keeper in a large lot of marbles, and I don't see any in all those pictures. Not trying to start anything, just explaining the way it is. This is the marble I bid on and didn't get. Wish it had more than two views. Jabo

I just put in a bid for almost $17 on a 7/8" new shooter Jabo...and got outbid.

I'm content to wait till I see some good ones that I like on ebay, then I'll bid on them. That's the only way I acquire marbles.