Alan

Yes. I was ripped off by Mike Edmondson, contemporary glass artist from Independence, Iowa.

While that may turn out to be the case - it isn't always. I had a contemporary marble maker rip me off for $500 and Paypal acknowledged the transaction but said I was on my own. I was out $500 and Paypal was completely useless. Meanwhile - Mike Edmondson disappeared with my money.

Cat's Eye reject.

Mark Matthews Air Trap sulphides in Vaseline glass. He made a few (very few, I think) integer and alphabet sets.

I have some other letters stashed somewhere....

Note the marble in the upper left:

Guess what Josh gives out to kids on Halloween? Yep...

Disregard then. I thought it might be one of his pieces commissioned by Cirque de Soleil.

I just thought of something: Is that color yellow.... or orange?

It looks wrong on several levels.

No - the two I pulled are of his frit design:

I just pulled two of my Coupals. Both are signed "Fco2" in the same style.

None of my Coupals are numbered. He was making limited run geometric pieces ("cubes") a few years ago.

Coupal?

Very nice. Wish I had some of those.

I'll be there!

Smity: Since I see a lot of Ebay marbles described as "9.8 wet mint... with a few micro-nicks, light wear and two blowholes" - I suppose that "mint" doesn't mean anything anymore and some enterprising capitalists have invented the "Mint+" grade. Soon to come will be: > Super Mint > Extra Minty > Mint Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary I shake my head ruefully at the sliding grading standards. Alan

Its a Rebel. NOT a GR.

That crossed my mind as well.