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Wish I had the room I would take it in a second, never seen anything like it Brad !!
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"Welcome to Marble Connection" "No pontils yours are all machine made, the first to look like maybe cat eyes "from this one view " The third looks Asian, maybe an Imperial. "Please" give measurements in fractions if you can. Some more views would be a great help in the I.D. process "Thank You"
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WOW !! 😲
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Roger that, Peltier Rainbo
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These "Meg" teeth are really something alright !! I can see why you like them, the other closeup pix are great.
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Akro or Vitro ? Mine all "fake" according to few forums
Chad G. replied to Mojo's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
There not "Fake" Mojo, just not easily identifiable because of rarely being seen here in the U.S. Some are identifiable yes, others closely resemble known manufacturers but just something a bit off. Personally I wouldn't toss anything. Myself, I will not give an I.D. on something that I have no idea on, just state what I know & what it resembles. I want to help as I'm sure "everyone" else does on any marble forum, some of the main driving forces behind all these marble forums is the sharing of knowledge and helping the new collector, things that help us all in the end. In a word "Everchanging" This hobby morphs continually as provenance & new knowledge is brought foreword. I would love to know more about a number of the marbles you have in question myself, and believe that given a little time their identification will become known. Hang in there, we're with you, the great majority is here to help & learn. A few words of encouragement for you as we all love this hobby, it has become a large and very enjoyable part of my life & the lives of many here -
it's supposed to be stacking not "Stack King"
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Good thing somebody was paying attention, keep us posted if you would William, on the status of this fish or reptile or whatever it turns out to be !!
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Some great stuff there William, looks like we have very similar interests. I seen the meg teeth long before the individual pics "very nice" I'll post some pics of my favorite vendor store as soon as I make a trip up there, many displays are very similar !!
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Yep !! On second look I agree Steph !! 99% of the Vacor old fashioned I've seen do have that orange peel type texture.
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Sounds like maybe a ya got good thing going for ya William. Making friends with the vendors and or owners is always a plus. I have made several good friends that way & our friendships have went far beyond the store or their spaces. Oh !! and the display deal you got is "fantastic" they're not cheap by any means & lighted on top of that. I just bought 2 wall mount locking ones that also needed assembly. I'll be posting some pics of them soon, in other words they're already full, something I've needed for a long time. "Good luck" on you ventures William, looking foreword to more pix !! "Ys" i have cousins in Redding & another small town in California called Redway just west of Redding near the coast, the big blue marble we live on is getting smaller all the time !!
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My Grandfather & thus my Mother were from Wisconsin. My great great Grandmother was 100% Chippewa Indian, also from the great lakes region. The Meg tooth sounds great & a pretty reasonable price to. It seems the closer you get to the source the more expensive things get. That tooth would be a couple hundred here at least, 7" is a big one alright. Glad you found a place to get what your interested in at decent prices. Over the years I've made friends with many shop and mall owners & even grew up with a few. Honesty really goes a long ways as long as it's mutual, it took a while but now I know when I'm getting skinned. Strange we have an Onalaska WA. about 45 minutes from here. Truly a small, small world we live in. Really enjoying the pix William, keep em comin I have a bunch of pix of my hobbies & so forth posted if you click on my avatar & the about me section there. I've posted several of the pix before & some I haven't. I'm the big one in all the pix, some are quite old some newer, you'll unfortunately see the age progression in me as you look at the pix. Good grief I feel old !! Also a great deal on the rose quartz, a guy here in town will make you what ever you want, mostly names, inscribed hearts, dice and other shapes. He uses several different gemstones, quartz, amethyst, carnelian, blood agate etc... I'll "try" & remember to get some pix of his work & post it here.
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Maybe "Akro Saturday ????
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"Yes" I think it' a horse or maybe a cow tooth, if it's smaller maybe goat or something of that nature, but most definitely a tooth. I really like this sharks tooth, I had a fossilized one on a necklace and had some jaws we cut out of a blue tip at one time, you oughta see all the spares they have, inumerable. I'm only 45 miles from the ocean here so I see a lot of this stuff, I even lived there in Astoria where they made the movies "Goonies" & "Kindergarten cop" during my first marriage after I got out of the Navy, of course well before the movies were ever made, I loved living there, I never get tired of seeing this kind of stuff. "Thanks for sharing the pix" Some great memories !!
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All "machine made " "no handmades" "no pontils" appears to be asmade cold roll crease. Air bubbles are common in clearies. I believe every manufacturer known made clearies & I know of no way to differentiate one manufacturer from another.
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Pics didn't show Mojo !!
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"Thank You"
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So is smaller than 3/8ths" & the other 19/32nds". Definitely not any form of Euro sparkler & the red one @ 9mm, 23/64-, is smaller than the .50" pee - wee mark ?? I have seen some bizarre pee - wee mibs & regret to say I have no idea of manufacturer on these 2.
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x 2 Agree with Ric, first pic Master brushed patch. I have a large Master brushed patch that's almost a twin to yours, (L) center. The first one, if it has filaments I'm not sure on, the seam in the 4th pic does look Akro, but I can barely see some of the filament structure in the white you are talking about ??
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A link with a few pics of some European sparklers from right here on MC to help ya out a bit, European sparklers are usually larger, near at or over one inch at times and usually have filaments like as Ric said. I can't pin yours down, do you have a size, maybe another clue as to the possible I.D. ?? LINK : https://marbleconnection.com/topic/15927-european-sparkler-marble/