Chad G.

"Welcome to M.C. William" ....................................Have fun" Chad G.

I think they have nails on sale at Coast to Coast, the lumber may have to wait, my buddy wet to buy 1 (one) 8 ft. sheet of plywood the other day $59.00 & it was a blow, full of knots. Fir has tripled if not quadrupled in price in the last few months & I live 4 miles from the largest log export dock in the world here in Longview Washington. You may be building your new mib shed out of old barn boards so...... ....and.........and...........and then.......

Thanks Ron you saved me taking pics of flats, Razzle Dazzle still a fav..... Heaton made some killers that's for sure, very happy I got at least a slice of the pie...... Thanks again all for the hard work, sharing & generosity, true marble Brothers & Sisters......

A Good friend made 2 signs for every manufacturer, Pelt, MK, Cairo, Alox, Akro, Alley etc...etc..., got something started now I need more.

A small curio I filled with Heaton. One shelf of misshapen double ingots', baseballs, hats, pancakes, barbells, pee - wee's, nearly every oddball shape you could name. The other just some outstanding examples and the third shelf I believe are all named. Anyway all from the last dig. Had to put em somewhere, might as well display em, the containers are all Akroware, I think a couple Houze a few salts & some Imperial end of days glass, found a use for those too. Better than collecting dust in a cupboard or on a shelf somewhere. I try to display everything I have, I emphasize the word try very emphatically. Please excuse the blur, this curio is mounted on my wall about 5 feet up, kinda hard to take pics with a 12" tripod at that height.................................. Chad G.

The two top seam pics look Akro but the end pic just below them looks MK ?? " I'm goin Akro "

Well Stephen, that's more than a few with exactly the same color scheme and opaque & transparent base, so definitely not one offs, they are a unique and beautiful pelt. for sure. "Thanks for the pic's Stephen !!

I'm, stuck as well Ron, A very dense slag, not much light or transparent red only on the other side a very small patch near the backwards 9, I thought Cerise for the longest time because of the visible feathering but now I believe Akro so either way it's with my slags and not with any particular bunch. Hand gathers are a hard nut to crack for me, only one I'm sure it's not is MFC because of the color.

Only one I have, & I had at least a few hundred already here besides the dug ones. Like I said even Ron was wondering why so many new marbles came out of this dig, by new I mean ones nobody had ever seen before, either production or from any of the prior digs. !!

Yes I've talked with him about them there was quite an extensive conversation about them on AAM and a few others, he said one in every three 5 gallon buckets average, if you look in between the two like that I have there is also a green transparent based one with the same orange over white he mentioned he'd never seen before, I lucked out on the two different shipments of dugs I got. Nearly 90% of all the named & some real oddballs that haven't turned up anywhere else, so they're not going anywhere soon. No more digging there , gone, zero, underground or pavement, that's it. I jumped on it and was lucky enough to be one of 3 or 4 that got some other than the diggers, I found quite a few Heaton in the mibs I already had, almost all in the wrong places, now all straightened out (I hope) Many new Heatons came out of this last dig not previously seen before, I'm grateful to the people who sold me some, otherwise I would have never even got close to one !! I saved them all but the ones that fell apart in my hands, which was very few, some quality glass I suspect.

Not anywhere else on the entire emoji menu, ah well guess the little feller aint hurtin nothin !!

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I know it looks like the marble is in motion or I moved but I guarantee ya the camera was on a tripod with a remote, no way any movement could occur unless we had an earthquake, But since I've seen it dozens of times one reason I grabbed it out of a couple hundred is the unique look it has. Kinda like a tie die shirt !! Wish they all could look this way but, such is life. I should have taken one more of the other side, but just that little bit of tail in the third pic was enough to get the proper I.D.

Gotta root for someone !! Enjoyed the race today as always. Thanks for all the hard work !!

How did this 😙 get into my emojis, not in the regular bunch but only on the used bar, I suppose it will disappear when I reboot but just wondering where it came from, here it is next to a regular sized one or three 😙 guess I'll call it half-pint until it disappears ??

Nice race, keep em rollin, by the way I vote bumblebee next race & then onto the finals in the end & ribcage as a second if bumblebee is knocked out ??

I had a long talk with my constituents and seen the little drizzle line in the last pic and landed on Akro handgather To dark for cerise & not CAC so only Akro left. There is a very small backwards 9 on the other side.

If you don't want em I'll take em off yer hands, even pay postage Bruce !! Hard to come by, especially the big un. That'd be peltiers definition of a muddy, I know, I know, I didn't name it, don't blame me !!

The more I look, the more I look, the more I turn the mib, the more I turn the mib, the more I second guess myself, the more confused I get, But in all actuality I believe Akro is all we're really left with ?? (maybe).....................................

A few surprises in there to, a transparent blue snowglobe, two transparent green av. marbles, three horsehair oxblood and one metalic hiding somewhere in the mix, all from the dig, I didn't add anything, in fact I probably should have cleaned them a bit better

One of my favorite slags, translucent not transparent, an odd coupling, reminds me a little of a cerise in structure, what's you opinion. I would show an identifier if it had any. Size is 13/16ths dead on,. Some minute amount if drizzle as can be seen in the third pic but other than that clean.

Hmmmmm................ Yes indeed !! Mibs it is !! Of course this being the lounge one never knows where we'll end up !! A few Heaton from the last dig, some named a few unnamed kind of a variety box. Iceberg, Honey biscuit, Heaton Sulphide, Robin eggs, Volcanoes, Voo doo, Black Cherry, Blackberry etc.........Many with a ying - yang pattern.

I fear the end result for each is always the same or rotates around the same objective $$$ and control, no matter the country of origin. Even supposed "control" over nature & weather, there is nothing "sacred" anymore, unfortunately !!!

Agree 100 % Ric, sciences objectives aren't always so savory, more $$$ driven than anything else. We are all probably better off not knowing the full extent of what they are actually doing.

That's was the intent, to give a little look at just how far science will go !! Answer !!There is no limit. Obviously almost every animal shown was man made, not by interbreeding, a few yes the rest made in a lab. So a bit of both, science & a little entertainment. Most would realize there is no way to breed a Bengal tiger and a tabby cat besides in a petri dish.