Chad G.

Good grief, I looked and finally relented and had him or rather her point him out. I do believe the same person who came up with where's Waldo also invented the fidget spinner. If you tend to look down all the time or are depressed these are the perfect shoes for you If you like everyone looking at you then this would be you next choice. I wonder, is there a name for people with an affinity for anything & everything Waldo ?? This is where a couple hours of Waldo finally brought me Reminds me of my old Olympic synchronized swim team days.

Love it when you can see the striations and flow in the glass( top R ) my new pix are coming I have to wait for them to fossilize first. " Thanks for the great pix " Better late than never !! seems I am getting quite well acquainted with this position.

Thanks Ron, great pix. I know I have quite a few Jackson a few Cairo & maybe some Davis. Davis probably only about 5 - 10 I'd really have to dig to find em. All piled together, I know that's no way to keep em but if I don't fiddle through them all the time they won't get beat on. "Thanks again" for the pix Ron.

Here's an Ebay sale from the other day, of a mint electric yellow CAC slag just like yours, maybe a little wetter, close in size as an example for you to look at. It's shown under UV. and backlit. This is an electric slag ( Or transparent swirl ) like yours, not a "striped transparent" striped transparent are rarer examples with white or another opaque color at or near the surface, in the rare cases where the opaque color enters the interior of the mib you have a CAC transparent submarine. I know it is a little confusing, I'll include some more pics. Many, many you see on Ebay are misnamed because the real striped transparents & submarines are rarely seen. Once seen you will not forget. CAC "STRIPED TRANSPARENT" : NO FILAMENTS OF COLOR INSIDE : (VHTF) These pictures courtesy of my friend Terry, I sold and traded the last of my CAC'S 3 or 4 months ago including most of the ones above except the single and double seam red slags. "CAC STRIPED TRANSPARENT SUBMARINE" : THIS IS A $ 1000.00 MARBLE, (VVHTF ) NOTE HOW THE OPAQUE COLORS GO IN & THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE MIB STRIPED TRANSPARENT SUBMARINE BACKLIT :

Maybe a few pics of each to get started, Thanks & appreciation given to joes marbles & mibbage for the pix DAVIS: 1947 - 1948 DAVIS : DAVIS : CAIRO : 1946 - 1950 CAIRO : CAIRO : JACKSON : 1945 - 1946 JACKSON : JACKSON :

Pelt. Rainbo, nice, clean mib !!

You know the ones on the bottom on either side of the lifesaver cork in the center aren't oxblood right ?? Oh!! by the way, nice milky ( second row from L ), limeade ox and especially like the egg yolk ( good coverage ) Wish I would have had a kick start like yours Tommy, "excellent mibs"

I have a bunch of un I.D. mibs of which I believe to be a are a mix of Cairo, Davis and Jackson with maybe a few Alox in the mix, just wanted to know if anyone collects any of them and how to really distinguish one from the other, not common all had a short run except Alox 1919 - 1989. Davis 47 - 48, Cairo 46 - 50, Jackson 45 - 46 all extremely short runs. They're never talked about so maybe a good subject, I'll take some pix later after some discussion and see about the I.D. 's Not highly desired but an important facet in marble history, somewhere along the line they fell into obscurity. My Jackson & especially Davis pic folders are very limited, provenance ( where, who, when, why ) also, reasons being why they were so short lived and or absorbed by another manufacturer ?? I have pic folders from each and every manufacturer in case I get lazy and need to present known examples, from Joes mibs & other reliable I.D. sites etc....

CAC electric yellow slag, "Poppin" only slags w/ defined cutlines like that, forget me and I.D. on the old hand gathers, they all look the same to me. As far as the turkey head, you can see a turkey head somewhere on almost any type swirl there is. However only CAC has the genuine turkey head type swirl on it, as well as you're moving along get a couple good examples of known & genuine CAC's in you sites and it will be a lot easier to I.D. them in the future. I hope this will help you a little on some of the easier I.D., I have to dig a little for some swirl pics. CAC Road & Tunnel Slag CAC Double Seam Slag CAC Striped Opaque ( S.O. ), "Not A Slag, Opaque light does not penetrate or or pass through CAC Snotty, Most Common Color Looks Like You Know What The Double Seam & the Larger 25/32nds R & T Side By Side

Good to see ya Bill !!

HAPPY ! HAPPY ! HAPPY ! SMORE CORKS BACKLIT NORMAL

I feel sorry for those poor souls, unknowingly and quite literally working themselves to death, but boy did they make some beautiful mibs or what !!

I have a bunch of oversize giants & .75's and a couple hundred commons but these are the most exotic I own right now, I have a few surprises on the way.

"Great pics Ric" I guess some of them actually laid down on their stomach on a 35 deg. inverted board to give them the capability to work longer instead of getting sore backs, don't know if it's true or not but supposedly that's where the term " Putting Your Nose to the Grindstone" came from

"Absolutely Bruce" some I have look machine made, people seen them & said they where to perfect, but they have a much different shine, that's what made me bust out the loupe and check for facets. These guys making them didn't have an extended life expectancy, the dust from the agates, and the stone went in their lungs but didn't come out. Contributing to I suppose a variety of lung problems they where unaware of at the time. There was no OSHA coming around making sure you had your mask on.

I have a few but not many rare or exotic ones any more, workin on it the split up in 09 & subsequent sale of a 23 yr collection kinda put a damper on the VVHTF mibs I once had in abundance, so 9 yrs. ago I decided to start all over again. Sorry for the collage effect, I am no good at resizing pics !! BLUE LAGOON 5/8ths" GOLDEN REBEL W/ AV. IN THE BLACK AND RED AND GREEN AV. IN THE YELLOW 43/64ths" TIGER COVERED IN BLUEAV. 11/16ths" BRONZE ZEBRA ALSO COVERED IN GREEN CHUNKY AV. 11/16ths" MILLER TIGER W/ AV. 11/16ths" , My Avatar Chocolate cow 5/8ths" much more brown in hand, these pics are a little older than the others. Miller Zebra 5/8ts" Bifurcated Dragon Bee NLR 21/32nds" Wiger 5/8ths" Miller Christmas Tree 21/32nds" Pink Base, so called NLR Chocolate Bee 5/8ths" Before anyone asks, yes the pink is quite correct, if anything it's a little pinker in hand. Peltier did use pink in their colors. I have another listed also I drew the names from a site in the early 2000"s. Chocolate Bee makes no sense to me either. Just letting you know I didn't just pull these names out of a hat. I know these are both rare colored mibs, how many have you seen?? I've seen 3 Bees and 2 juggernauts, and that's it NLR Orange Rebel W/ AV. 3/4ths +" NLR JUGGERNAT 5/8ths, GREY BAS GLASS W/ 4 RUSTY ORANGE COLORED RIBBONS, BEFORE ANYONE ASKS THIS ONE & THE PINK BASE ONE WHERE NAMED ON AN OBSCURE PELT I.D. SITE I USED TO GO TO IN THE EARLY 2000's

Guess I could have explained it better, that's what I meant by dull sheen on factory and visible ripples on hand made, some of my better hand ground I tell you I couldn't see the facets until I used the loupe, could be because I'm half blind ?? Thanks Ric for shortening it up.

Pelt on .65 #1, Pelt. Rainbo's on .64 #2 and .60 #3 for sure, Alley on .69 #4, my best guess

I wish I could see you in person and show you the difference between a hand ground and machine ground, I'll do my best to explain. The newer machine ground are only worth about 2 - 5 bucks apiece "tops" depending on what they are made of. The surface will have a perfect unwavering kind of dull looking sheen under mag. The old hand ground (You'll have to get a loupe to start ) 10 - 20 x, will have a slight wavering pattern around the entire mib, some of the guys that ground these got really good at it, a production oriented atmosphere and if your marbles weren't up to par or you didn't produce enough, down the road you went. Just because there are hits on it doesn't make it antique, you can't tell if it was hit yesterday or 100 yrs. ago, the only advice I can give you on these is to find a definite example of both and that will erase most of the questions for you. Most of the older ones didn't get much over 1" with the greatest value being in the died ones, Blue and especially green are usually twice as valuable as the common carnelian bullseyes you & I have. The biggest mib I posted is only about 3/4, the little white agate is a peewee, 1/2" right on the nose. If you have a good sense of touch you can feel the faceting on most hand ground but it's not going to happen overnight. Good luck Tommy, have fun. Chad

Agree, you can see where the veneer came completely off the Vitro in the last pic

2 colors counting the base is a prize name : three or more colors a special, many specials have their own collector names as do some prize names I.E. specials like the "life saver" you have. : both kinds of cork whether a "prize name" or "special" if given a collector name are generally worth more either for their rarity or distinct color combinations.

Best guess L to R, Akro lazy cork, ?? , Pelt MCS :

I agree with I'llhavethat1, German as well

Yes, correct a clambroth With permission of the {MSCA} Marble Collectors Society of America You have an excellent example there that should fetch top dollar, one of the rarer colors and a high number of evenly spaced surface strands, & at least from your pics looks to be in excellent mint condition. You'll have to wait on another to post for an accurate appraisal. I only have the cased type myself. DEFINITION : A recent cased auction from Ebay : A picture one of mine with some other handmades, this one is identical to the one in the auction, size is 19/32nds mint I believe the cased type is a little rarer but the black ones like yours are a softer glass & harder to find in mint condition so the value should be pretty close, maybe slightly less, maybe more at auction ??

Glad it brought a smile to your face Brother