marblemansion

NICE! That would have been awesome!

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Love his work - so cool - nice to see a newsreport about him.

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For comparisons you can always look over my Photos sections: http://picasaweb.google.com/marblemansion There is an entire section on Vacors and some great examples of real Peltier Superman and others for you to compare to. Bill

Oh - so these are not "real" buggers??? ROFL I thought maybe one of the workers sneezed.... By the way - I have about 40 auctions ending today - lots of them start for just 99 cents and with ten winning auctions - shipping is free.

Yep - thats what i figured.

Boy I dunno - I don't even understand how you can "dye" a stone marble - howdadodat?

I dunno - you are pro'lly right - maybe children hit a certain age where the value of the pattern takes on an appeal. My elder son would not give up some of his mibs that he really liked for anything - but my younger grandson could careless what they look like - he just likes the sounds and appeal of a rolling sphere.

and I still wanna know if bigjohn drinks his coffee from that thing....

Well wait a minute m!b$ - quite possibly some of the best examples were saved - and for that very reason - because they were so KEWL looking it would be the last marble to get into the fray - and hopefully strike a winning blow and go back in the pocket of the child admirer. So the bestest probably got beat up the leastest.

What is that - your coffee mug?

HAH HAR! Now thats de facts!

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I have noticed this too in selling - only mint gets the top dollar - which is how it should be - I mean why should a marble with a chip get the same value as a marble that is pristine??? And mint is ranged from 9.0 to 10.0 and I have almost NEVER seen a 10.0 marble - they almost always have some as made defect or other surface flaws. esp if you get out the 20x loop - I downgrade to 9.2 or so for tiny pinpricks and little hits if the glass is not missing and I do down grade for major as made anneals or pits because those detract from the surface beauty just as much as a regular chip does. Most of the marbles that are available to collect at a decent price are non-mint examples that have some flaws and where do you draw the line? IMO - that is where the pattern and beauty of the marble comes into play - a non-mint Superman for instance with a dull straight ribboned plain pattern will get less that a non-mint one with a wild bold swirling pattern. So the beauty of the marble does still come into play - at least as far as I have seen.

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Is this the same Pete I sent a bunch of marbles to for identification help??? Good to see you again.

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they are kinda HTF these days - I was looking for a 25mm to fill my collection and it took a while. the seller ended the auction - maybe he will re-list with proper acknowledgement to the maker....LOL

http://cgi.ebay.com/Unusual-Guinea-/120606498975?pt=Marbles WOW!