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Thanks for showing T Rex, from the ID discussion. This helps. I still like Akro for the other...but I can see the issue! You are always backing this site up with learning! John

I agree with Steph on the last one...Akro.

That one in #65 is a beauty too. Thanks for posting it! John

Thanks Steph! I really appreciate the enthusiastic attention that all the marbles on here get. It really is about giving them some light, isn't it? I think that no marble should sit in a dark drawer or jar to be appreciated by only one, or worse, by no one.

Grey is good! Great Alleys on these last few pages, and I've looked at that chalky a bunch...wow!

Great! Thanks Steph and Ric. Much appreciated!

Ric, surely some similarity here for sure. John

This one does all sorts of weird things with light. The blue is transparent, and the rest of the clear areas are colorless. The green is an illusion, under strong light it is blue and clear.

Working on this tonight. I know I've seen this...but can't run the manufacturer down now. Thanks in advance! 0.66"

Blue is the below in the the solid region.

Both...huge regions on the other side (sorry!) that are clear as a bell. This photo hints at the clear regions inside. My thinking is that the transparent part was more unusual aspect in this one, than the translucent. John

I've seen similar, but can't recall where they were placed. Alley I am assuming. That clear bubbly overlay of glass is interesting. But I'm still in school on these things. 0.62" Thanks! John

Pelt transparent Multi-colored Rainbo.

I agree. I have a number of examples of this one, but based on my findings, this type is scarce-ish, depending on your luck. Nice mib! A keeper. Should have a name if it doesn't. John

# 6, the bottom left drizzly one I have too, I think. I need to image that one and post too. Killer! #10 is out there! Geez! And the last is great too. Post matches if you have them. This kind of thread can be very helpful.

Normally you'd think this would be an impossible question. Heck, I have a number of mibs, like I'm sure many of us here do, I'd hold on to through some real hunger events, fits of destitution before letting it go...and, I think, that's correct and the way it should be. So, I've got a long queue of 'desert island' mibs, for sure, but I guess it's easy this time: The marble I'd sell last was my Father's. He had it in the early 1930's, and it's a terrific NLR Pelt Submarine shooter. After my Dad died, I found a box in the attic that had a small canvas case with burlap bags in it. And in those bags, were slightly over 400 mibs from the time when he was a kid. Many, no most, were in great to good condition and comparatively diverse with lots of different forms and manufacturers...he was a sick kid, so he tended to do things that other kids didn't do...many appeared to be cared for, almost like they were collected. It was this first collection that gave birth to my collecting of these things...first from wanting to find out what he had, and since turning into this mania, this bottomless passion I have for these wonders in glass. I've learned from all his marbles, and have of course, since moved on...but they remain central, and indeed separate, from the rest of my collection. And he gave me hobby, greater in some ways than all he ever did for me. My Dad is always with me now, in my marbles. One day I will share with you all what was in his collection...all of them pre-WWII mibs...never played with by me, or known to anyone, and truly unpolluted. It was so amazing to see this group so locked in time...some, as if they'd just walked out of the store or from the playground, and then were locked away for decades, untampered. I know these cases of substantiated unpolluted oldness are rare...but this is one of these cases. We don't know why he never let me play with them when I was young...but luckily, he waited for the adult and kid in me to discover them. And he had them all: Miller Swirls and Red Angels and and other Pelts I've not even seen other examples of ever, and lots of other Pelts (the collection is half or more Pelt), and early Vitros and Akros and Alleys and swirls from the early companies...such a great classroom it was. So there is lots to choose from sure, but this Submarine will easily be, the last mib to go. John

That's a Steph, super marble! Does it have an interesting history/story? John

First two might be newer...but I'm still a larva (kinda fat, but still a larva), the last might be an Akro cork...but not getting the right views on this. The last night be contemporary too! John

I've heard we get orange slags with CAC and Akro. I've not seen many orange ones. I suppose there isn't an easy way to secure a maker...or is there? This one is 0.66"

It's a smaller marble than a cake. Some collectors think these are Wedding Cakes too. I think they are contemporary, but shouldn't be called a cake. How about calling these "petit fours." Those, pretty, and I think, annoying little treats that the eye enjoys more than the appetite. I won't touch them. It's a perfectly descriptive term, if annoying. Maybe Raspberry Tort would work just as well!

Yep. I know what you mean. This one falls clearly into that 'this or that' category. Maybe these should be Makro or Aster!

Exotic Conqueror. I was working with this one and I thought I'd post.

Yes, I know what you mean. That one sure looks classically Master. Maybe.

Nice mail! Yep, sometimes I don't know when blended starts either!

Bingo! Hilarious. I do agree. The first would be with my Akro, and I think the second too, with that green and that yellow just not Master enough for me. Like Steph said, about 59% Akro!