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Alan

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    Akro?

    As Chad noted - a Nova looks quite different.
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    Akro?

    Looks like newer glass. Maybe back the lens up so it comes into focus.
  3. What can you tell me about the marble at 11 o'clock?
  4. You didn't list it for Buy It Now price of $6.00. So you didn't offer it for $6. Stop trying to confuse the matter. You offered a Peltier Blue Bee - which is why Ebay emailed me to noting that a "Peltier Blue Bee" was offered. If you want to offer me a Peltier Blue Bee for $6. - let me know.
  5. You're making it worse. For no reason. You listed a $5 MK Bumblebee as a Peltier Blue Bee. The latter is a reasonably high value marble. You knew that because you were told that. You can have a fit over this and make yourself look worse - or learn from it, fix it and move on knowing more than when you started. Its up to you. People are watching.
  6. The seller's dilemma is that its on the seller to accurately describe the lot. Or to say that they simply don't know. But when a $5 marble is described as a $150-175 marble - then the sellers reputation suffers. Thats just how markets work. I understand the conflict that you mentioned, but again.... if you have 2 or 3 conflicting IDs, you have the choice whether to list it - or wait for a better ID. Choosing to list it described as the highest value of the 3 possibilities..... makes people wonder. Selling at shows simplifies the process a lot. Folks that have been in the hobby a long time have seen a lot. Not all of it good. There will always be heightened awareness of misidentified marbles being sold - especially when the error is significantly in the seller's financial favor.
  7. As others have noted - they are almost all modern marbles and game marbles, generally not collected. Some are quite new. The bags are fake bags with new marbles - often sold to the unsuspecting in "antique" stores.
  8. They are almost all modern marbles - most of them made recently in Mexico. I don't see any considered collectible.
  9. Its a coreless swirl. The presence of fine bubbles are sometimes referred to as a ghost core. It caused by the first marvering of the initial core being uneven and the second gather doesn't adhere well.
  10. All of those that I know of were dug on the Akro site from the French Drain. I would describe the base as an odd olive. There were other weird oxbloods that came out of the same drain, 90+ percent of them dug by one person - "W".
  11. Where are you referencing Lucite marbles from?
  12. The pattern may have some similarities - but they are two different types.
  13. A number of those came out of the Akro factory French Drain - along with a variety of odd oxbloods.
  14. I'm not a FB guy, but I hear there is a big debate going on re: oxblood cats.
  15. My comment is based on the glass, not anything else.
  16. For the "O.G." oldtimers - Bill Cokenhauer used to have IIRC three of them for sale. All very nice. At the same time he had a legit "Bird Cage" - which is the only one I had ever seen outside of a book. He had it 2-3 years while it waited for a buyer that could swing it. In those show days - Bill handled most of the big money odd pieces.
  17. I thought I had seen those before. They were rare during the handmades days. Generally big dollar. I think most people have no clue what they are these days.
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