Alan

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.

Normally yes - but it depends upon how it was necked down and cut and the pontil finished.

They are cane-cut marbles from what looks like two levels. That is just a function of his technique of necking-down and cutting the marble off the cane.

Sorry these are contaminated with oxblood.

FWIW - those are newer production - not 1950's patch and ribbon. 10-15 years ago there were reasonable quantities of them available at shows in the U.S. I have 20 or so rollin' around here somewhere.

The first and second photo make me wonder about the surface of the marble. The odd parsing of the statement "It does have a couple of tiny fleabites but I believe its incredibly WET original surface and size warrant some forgiveness in the grading of this outstanding marble." only confuses understanding of the condition. Personally - I wouldn't buy that marble without looking at it in hand.