Mr Meteorite

To me these look like black flames, it my favorite black and white swirl in my collection. Notice the green too, would this be considered a tri colored swirl? Or would the green just be contamination?

Last pics Notice the seemingly random red square, looks kinda outta place, also you can't miss the awesome A or V depending on you view.

More pix of this unique piece of art

Should this amazing piece of art (unintentionally) be considered a transitional marble? No matter what's it called, this is awesome eye can't, a definite one of a kind. It even has an obvious "A" for acorn lol What is it that would cause these defects, looks like 2 different defects but I got the feeling they are related. Anyway Lanka for looking, and I'm sure your eyes thank you too 😉 Notice the seemingly random red square, looks kinda outta place, also you can't miss the awesome A or V depending on you view

When I'm driving around from garage sale to garage sale I get nearly the same feeling as I do when I'm out hunting meteorites, knowing they are there if I look in the right place at the right time, as I'm meteorite hunting, for example: where persistence walking and searching for 12+hrs a day every day for 10 days paid off in the meteorite find of a lifetime. I believe that persistence I will show while hunting every garage sale and estate sale I can make it to Will net me some really nice additions to my collection(which is in need of...well.....marbles)😂😅

I passed on it, thanks everyone

Here are a few pics, I see nothing special, you see anything that should make me make an offer? The pic of 3 together are shooters.

Third one. Does anyone know what made these? And are they glass?

Second one

There are 3 others, very similar but the base is different and slightly smaller. One of them are is a peewee. This first one is the peewee When you say horse hair Oxblood, is it brushed on with horse hair?

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Lol it wasn't supposed to say impersonators lol I fat fingered that, my bad.

One of three

Here are pics of the "Kerchner Stone" and my son's holding it an hour or less after we found it, on April 25 2010. One pic is of a sliced and polished piece weighing 1.5 grams you can see the amazing matrix in these pics both fragmented as found and sliced and polished prepared for a collection.

Thanks Steph. Here are a few pics of the material that I discovered, it's called Mendotawrong but many spell it online as Mendota wrong. I've sold this material all over the world, on Google you can see images from a natural history museum in Germany, dealers photos from Morocco, I've sold it to collectors in Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Morocco, UK, and other countries that are not coming to me at the moment, also sold to at least 17 states. I do have some available if interested, but that's not why I'm posting this, I'm posting it to share my life passion, and show things that come from many many hours of hunting, walking fields, ditches, pastures, parks, yards, roads, basically anywhere I can walk and hunt for meteorites. I also recovered the main mass of the Mifflin meteorite and that particular stone is dubbed "the Kerchner stone" it's one of over 200 finds from the 2010 Mifflin fall. My find was the largest to be found, oddly enough I was parked right over top of the second largest stone, unfortunately I was not the one who found that one, that was Marvin Kilgore who found that one a few days before I found mine. If you Google it, and look at images, it show pics of it all around the world, and it all came from me, I found it a little outside of mendota. It sells for about a buck a gram, most meteorite collectors that I know have at least one piece of this in their collection. It was thought to be a meteorite for upwards of a year while it was being studied by a few institutions, mostly universities but one friend who works at jpl checked it out too. I was amazed when I got an email from Dr Carleton Moore from ASU, he is the guy who trained Neil and biz on what and how to do their job on the moon, they practiced in the desert in their space suits. He had his colleague Lawrence Garvie do the testing, he is featured on meteorite men every time they have a newly found meteorite tested.

Hello all, I'm a 39 year old father of 5 (22yrs, 21yrs, 16yrs, 14yrs, 1yr) two oldest boys youngest 3 are my girls. I'm a cnc machine operator. My passion is hunting collecting and dealing meteorites. If I could hunt meteorites 24hrs a day I would, my dream is to goto Antarctica and hunt meteorites. I am probably the newest collector here with the smallest and least valued collection,but that will change. I've been collecting for only a month and a half, I have been learning as much as possible, that's all I've been doing in my spare time, something to do with marbles: taking pictures, editing pictures, looking at pictures, examining each one of my marbles individually. I've become obsessed, this is what happened with meteorites, that's all I thought(think) about, I put together an amazing collection, I started a website and forum and had, at the time the most popular forum by far, with over 1500 members, hundreds very active, I made many good friends in the meteorite community. I love learning and teaching about meteorites, and learning and hopefully someday teaching about marbles. I'm a Huge Steelers fan and a big Cubs and Blackhawks fan too. This is a pic of me and my lil baby girl, Jazzy.

Thanks for the advice, everyone. Much appreciated

Thanks for starting this thread Steph, it answered my question, well for the most part. And yep you right, I have a good half dozen or so, only a couple are mint tho, I'll post some here when I get a min to snap and edit a few pics. Thanks again Steph.

Are these worth $20 and an hour drive each direction? If I see what I think I see it's very well worth it, I think I see a few that make it worth it...... I think What do you think? Every 2 pics are top/bottom of same view of the jar.

You can definitely see it in hand, it's not loaded, but it's there, pretty easy to notice in the sun light.

Yea, it was definitely we'll used, I ask about value just to have an idea, I don't plan on trying to sell most of my collection. Thanks, Joe K

Definitely way too many name to ever know them all off hand.

Yea, I'm not going by those prices I'd never expect anything close, I use this much more for ID purposes.