The Nickel Guy

What a bunch of antique hand made marbles! Wow! I can't tell you much about Onionskins tho.

I believe it is a Jabo because of the usual "C" fold.

Those are beautiful Oxbloods. Did you get them in a sale in a old marble bag?

I'm so proud of myself. I am hurting my arm, patting myself on the back. The old polly was at our house and our new one probably 30 years and it was still doing good but I wanted it to last a lot longer so I sanded it down and gave it a new paintjob. Old Polly New Happy Polly

First one Master Marble Sunburst Second I would take my best guess and say it's a Ravenswood Swirl ( I like that one ) kinda resembles a Strawberry Shortcake but I don't think it has another white color necessary. All these images look a bit dark. I bet these are brighter in hand. Third Vacor Sea Turtle I do think The White base with red and black might be a Peltier Rebel but I am probably wrong. Too umdefined and weak in colors. Last Pic, maybe a Master Marble Brushed Patch. Wonder how I did?

I went and bought a pound of Moon Marble Mega Marble "Firefly" 5/8th marbles. There were 91 wet mint marbles in the bag. I can't believe it. Most of my translucent Vacors have been somewhat rough in the net bags but this was refreshing. Not a pin prick in the whole shipment. Yes, I bought some other stuff too. I was expecting something more bright, more yellowish from the pictures but they came looking a bit darker. I think these are something brand new or a reissue of an older type to reintroduce in the Mega Marble line. Very happy with these and the best thing is, I had this shooter that I had been trying to identify maybe a month ago. Turns out, it completes a handpicked set of 24 of the best and a dandy 1 inch shooter for a bag of "Fireflys" They do look a bit lighter than these images and the shoter has the same swirls and colors except it appears darker than the players because it is thicker and the lighting makes it look much darker.

The one on the right I am pretty sure is Master Marble. The one on the left, I dunno for sure. They are both very cool!

I don't know what your nice marble is but I'm going to take a shot at Akro Agate Popeye. I am probably wrong as usual.

Nice stuff! Is that a Pelt Superman in that Mason Jar lid in the first picture?

That video was great Stephen. It's as though I was there . . . wait . . . I WAS THERE! I think the vdeo captured it as it was, a ton of fun. Hope there's another next year. Those venders were so nice and I think I talked with just about everyone. Best place in Jersey that day to be.

I think it's awesome, but what I really think is there are more ! Go get em.

I think the blue hue is from your light source. My best guess is that you have an Orangutan.

I know what it is but will watch for awhile and hopefully it will be amusing.

I wow-ed those marbles VA! Did you stumble across those marbles browsing booths or tables or do you have a marble guy regular selling there at the flea market. We have a couple flea markets sorta nearby. Makes me wanna check one out.

I think in hand the colors look identical. The one closest in the image may not be exactly the same but I think they look much more alike in person. It might be different to some degree. They all seem to have their own pattern.

If I were a tree I would be a Giant Sequoia and live a couple thousand years and be the biggest and tallest of all.

That is one beautiful cat.

All I see is an audio player bar and it sounds like Sesame Street Elmo and his favorite scientist?

I don't know but it sure is neat looking.

I'll just take a gut instinct feeling it's a Master Marble but 50/50 I'm wrong. Someone will help out soon and WELCOME to the forums.

Nice! I gave up somewhat on figuring out the basic one color on white swirls. I just sort them by the look they have. I am pretty good at pigion holing swirls of the same color shades. I'll learn it later. I watched this Stephen Bahr and Jack Hahn video here and saw our red white and blues a couple times in there. I read someplace too that Champion made RW&B in 1976 for the Bicentenial. I dunno.

Thank you good people! I'll have to look at some Champion stuff and see. Oh, I believe ya, but I don't have any Champion marbles except these ID-ed at least as best I know. Maybe I have others of different kind Champions.

These four 5/8th ish marbles are probably as old as me at least, and they are eye catching pretty but I have no idea who made them. Obviously from the same batch of glass combination. Among my favorites in a recent purchase as far as eye appeal goes, value, I really don't care but would like to know who made them and if they have a name, I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

So I won 8 lots on hibid at the end of last month. They finally arrived yesterday. Here are the auction pictures. Over 400 marbles and no damage was mentioned but for the Akro shooter. There were probably 100 that were chipped, fractured or had multiple pin pricks or were heavily played with. Terrible. Other lots were listed as having damage so I thought these should be a lot better. Of course some will get by the seller sometimes but my last experience with this seller was awesome. Oh well, I still think I got my moneys worth and there were a few goodies but nothing to jump up and down about. I am not going to complain to the seller. I just won't go back. Here are the survivors that are acceptable to me that have made it to thier final resting place with thier own kind. There are some I need to ID yet but most are safe and snug at home with thier kin. and these are not in the picture but are all Peltier Cats. I don't think they all qualify to be Bananas, but there are some in this lot of 50 I made up. ( Not the same as the Pelts in the top left corner ). Thanks for looking, it's always good to have more marbles to add to the collection.

Swirls are my favorites too when they look like that. Nice one. I have no sure idea who made it but it looks like some Ravenswood I have seen.