Chad G.

Nice royal Bill !!!

Here are my favorites, about this many more prize name's and some odd's and end's layin around somewhere ? How did you get rid of all those light dot's when in macro Steph I only use 1 bulb ?? (2nd pic. )

Hey Bill ya snuck some in when I wasn't lookin,( I should say when I wasn't payin attention ) don't think I've ever seen em like the white one's w/ the wavy patche's before, I must be blind " obscure for sure "

I vote "Modern" CAC Guineas don't have any pontil's, they're machine made not hand made and show either a single seam or a double seam. 1 of 3 color's clear, cobalt or amber. If it truly has any real pontil it's not a CAC guinea. I can't really make out a clear seam anywhere in the pic's. CAC really not my forte though, just saying what I know about Guineas. Kelly Schmidt make's some contemporary Guineas that have seam's and no pontil's, very much authentic looking. Steph is the moderator, she'll give you a good opinion and a go to person.

There's the difference, I sold my house to my niece and moved into a 2 bedroom appt. what a difference. I had to say goodbye to @ least 1/2 of my stuff, I just left all my tool's, lawn care etc... w/ the house I sold my niece. guess I never needed that much anyway. That's thinkin ahead, Good build

I keep thinking space but it's not here, I'll post some pic's of my humble abode later, wish I had the room you do. "Uh" more Akro creepin into the wood work, it's kinda contagious isn't it. " very nice collection's " ( I'm also glad all that smoke is gone whew !! )

This about half Bruce, 99% went w/ my divorce in 09. Catchup is sure takin a long time, I only find 2 or 3 nice big coats a year now. The price of the 1" and over has gone beyond my mean's. I did get a small percentage of some nicer one's back in the year's since, probably about 1/4th of what I had as far as coat's go. The bigger hand mades I have more of. " Thanks for the compliment Bruce"

Way to go , not all marbles but all kool, love the shift knobs and the knives, especially the hand to hand in the first display case. I also have resorted to my wall which isn't a bad choice. That's where I should've gone in the first place. I forgot all about my shadow boxes, those houze lighter's and old shift knob's fit right in w/ those hand mades. " first rate schmoozer love it "

These are some of the best coats I ever owned, many w/ aventurine. Many @ near or over 1". Again these pic's taken by my friend Terry. It's long I know I had trouble restraining myself, these are my favorite type of hand made marbles bar none. Another nearly 2/3rds covered with AV. the most I have ever seen on a coat, size is .78" getting real hard to find the 1' not beat to smithereens.

Grey flaming dragon rainbow, not what I would consider a full fledged grey dragon due to the lack of a real ribbon structure but still a rare dark grey base w/ the fiery flaming colored ribbons.

This is my old Wiger ( so named by Marble Alan ) av. not being a requirement, this one display's none. I believe to be considered a Wiger the mib has to have equal amount's of red and orange. These pic's of my marble's where taken by a very close friend almost 10 years ago.

Not a cow ( brown base ), wasp ( red base ), wiger ( red and orange eq. mix ) or a tiger ( orange base ), very dark rust red base w/ av. ribbons ?? Just another Pelt obscurity.

Another obscurity, grey base, rust red ribboned so called juggernaut after the 70's comic book character. In hand the base look's like concrete.

Invite accepted, I will mail you Chuck. Regards, Chad G.

One of my old pic's. of a group w/ a little ox kicker in the green on white patch.

A few more from the old history box, the green having an actual rooster tail design, my favorite.

AHhh well worth the wait, most excellent pattern. Thanks for posting the pic's

Excellent Bruce, I believe allot of people who collect have the space problem you and I do. I like the repurposed mib box you made " great idea", the wall mount I'm going to make will most likely also be repurposed wood. "Alright" I see fishin lure's and reel's etc. in the first pic, my little brother had a very nice collection before he passed, a bunch of wooden plug's and still in the box lure's I would stumble across the occasional old reel and give it to him. "Nice post Bruce", I enjoyed it very much./, bring's back some very fond memories of my little Bro. Regards, Chad G.

Same here Bruce , look's like you sort your patche's the same way I do, the only ones I'm halfway sure of I.D.'s is Peltier, the one's I really like are also separated out from the rest " nice mib's "

Very nice array Al, the transparent green also appear to be one of the more elusive one's for you as well, I do see 4 or 5 in your boxes, way ahead of the big "0" I have, " good show "

I have several 7/8ths and 4or5 pretty close to 1", I may have 1 plain white and yellow rainbow that will hit over the 1" mark, gotta do some diggin. Thanks for the encouragement Chuck, love all your picture's.

I've been collecting quite a while, well over 20 yrs, 15 to 20 seriously, and still see new one's as I'm sure you do. lost an 18 yr. collection in 09. during a divorce. That put a damper on thing's for about 5 yrs. I collected some but not many. I love collecting Peltier because of the great diversity and obscure mib's that pop up and seem to be more prominent in Peltier. I still have a bunch of mib's to take pic's of, gettin lazy I guess. Thank you for the great pic's Chuck, most enjoyable

Yes the base is pink, not even a smidge of av. I looked many time's, I have now what I call a golden bee, golden not yellow base w/ ex. hvy. av. The one in the picture is from my old collection I had till I auctioned everything in 09, during a divorce. 99% of a collection that took almost 18 yrs. gone. But I still have the pic's. Just like the golden bee I have now, another variant, boy I had some obscure one's, Peltier wasn't really the bee's knee's then for everyone else but it was for me. People where going more after the hand mades. Thank you for the comment's Chuck, I'll take a look and try to post some more oddball's from my old pic's. This pic isn't worth a whistle, in hand the base glass look's like that of a golden reb. I'll take another pic with it next to a couple other bee's so you can see the difference, and use the new bulb's I have. I would really like to have a blue bee but the price has really sky rocketed. plus I haven't seen one in a while, do you happen to have one or a pic ??

Op post in pelt slag's, still isn't showin. probably the same pic since I see some green ying yang pelt slag's here, killer !! Man them miller's got me hurtin for certain.

One of my big mistake's, auctioning this uv onyx off in 09. Man I had some beautiful mib's 😭 It might take a bit longer but I'll get there, the one I have ordered isn't half the marble this one was.