The Nickel Guy

It's excess colorant in this case. No sparkle, and thanks for that info.

Oh I'll get one someday, maybe several, I am going to post all my MK tomorrow for Marble King Monday elsewhere here in MK Monday!! But for now, back to our regularly scheduled program. Thanks!

Thank you kindly Chad! I shall read that on AAM. I am kinda glad they are MK even if they are newer. about 10 of mine do glow in the white areas under blacklight, I should take a real good image of what I perceive may be aventurine specks. Not that they are all that exciting and it's probably just crud in the glass.

These are not like the single color "Patch and Ribbon" pattern but the colors look very much Marble King. These mostly have same color patches on each pole. Just two, and a few have two different colors. Almost all are 1 inch, but I think there are 4 here that are 7/8 th inch. That yellow one in the corner is a regular size player marble. Also, Looking at them, is it possible I might have some aventurine floating around on the green ones? I don't want to call them Marble King without being sure. I got them a ways back and they were advertised as such. Thank you! Another angle

Well, 81 very nice Marble Kings showed up today in the included bag. They and the bag were very greasy but they got the Dawn soap and rinse treatment and the bag is also clean. Not a bad marble in the lot. Three gaming marbles were in there. I have a few odd ones that were included and they are MK. I always like those Bumblebees. I have yet to get me a Girl Scout. ( and I am taking about green and yellow ribbon Marble Kings! ) I have no idea when those bags were used, this exact bag anyway. I'd like to know how many it originally held and if the marbles inside resembled those I got today inside it. The auctioneer may have discarded or cherry picked this bag. There seems to room for 25 or more I guess? I like Marble Kings a lot because those Vitro All Reds, and Cats Eyes were the marbles I played with 60 years ago. Thanks for looking and reading my post.

Thanks for posting those pictures of the mentioned net bags Al. Those tree frogs are waaaay different huh? Akro, I think I got mixed up with the iridized Hurricane idea and was thinking about Pan American and Unicorn or something. It's all good. Swirls will do stuff like that to ya.

Nice marbles there Stone and VA! I have some Marble Kings coming next week. I hope they are nice and if so, I'll join the conversation with a couple pictures.

Hurricanes are iridized or "shiny" but I think they are basically the same marble. older Hurricanes are much different than any we'll most likely find in today's assorted bags. Thanks for your comments folks.

That is the question. Actually, I think they are one and the same. There next to the factory tag is a group of original marbles to it (24 + 1) that came out of that Tree Frog net bag. Out of many assorted bags I have accumulated enough to make 9 sets in all, each with a 1 inch shooter. Now there is a marketed named marble that is available in bulk too and perhaps comes in Mega Marbles net bags as sets. I don't know? They go by the name "Tie Dye". So I just sorted them up, making the more busy and deeper colored ones the Tie Dye and this is the tag I photoshopped to bag them up. Here's a closer look at the busiest darkest set of those seen in the top right corner of the first picture. For the "Tree Frog" here's one of the three across the middle to compare. I simply pulled thinner to nil black and brown swirls and grouped them up. My tag version I made up. So I decided I had 6 "Tie Dye" sets and 3 "Tree Frog" sets. Does it really matter? Two top left sets could have gone either way. I just happen to lean the way of how many tags I had printed up and "Tie Dye" won. Peltier, Ravenswood, Akro, Marble King . . well, most all other companies have established names for certain marbles in our circles. They almost are all out of business too so there won't be any new nicknames but Vacor, they change the marble or change the names and tags a lot. It is pretty tough to keep up with so I just try to have fun with things like this and not go too crazy.

Hey, I appreciate every post you put up and your thoughts behind them. Mega Marbles sometimes changed the names more than twice or called a completely different marble a same name as what used to be something else. Heck, sometimes I dream up my own name and lables for the hybrids or wacky strange ones. It's all good. If we were only kids again playing marbles at the playground we sometimes made up our own names for our favorites. I never remembered calling my green patch and ribbon marble kings by name. I might have called them "green eyes" huh?

Spumoni have a yellow opaque base with blue and red swirls. I have a lot of those too but not half as many as these orange base mibs. These Supernova orange ones are also sometimes known as Intrepid Girl too. Here's link for Supernova from Beakers World. https://beakersworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Supernova-MM-Net-Bag-front-scaled.jpg

Some are dark, some are bright, some are heavily iridized, some less so, some not at all. Some are larger, some are small. but they are all most likely in acceptable condition and I am fussy. There are 395 in this picture. I have been going through my collection and doing this with all my Mega Marbles. I have them all alphabetically cataloged and arranged in showcases and tubs. I started with A and I am going to start with the letter T hopefully today after this job. Almost done. I am very OCD. lol Supernova is the most populated variety in my collection out of probably 12,000 Vacors. I am sure I am not alone, these were probably one of the more produced types found in assorted net bags in recent years. I don't rank them in my top 10 favorites, but the best 24 and best shooter out of this project will be quite a super net bag when I am done. Thank you for looking.

Haven't posted any marble pictures lately but I was sorting tonight and gave this a whirl. Out of many assorted net bags, I chose these. Probably one of my top 10 favorite kind they make. FIESTA I do believe that the recent ATOM issue is maybe the same. Maybe those have a tad thinner swirls but I bought two of those. Thanks for looking!

It appears that there is a bit of black in the swirling there in your image of what you think is a Mummy and I have no problem with it. I can easily see in your photo the purpl-ish color. I do think if you sort the Orangutan from the Mummy outdoors it is much easier to tell the difference between the purple and orange base glass in natural light. While going through a bout 160 Roosters last night ( Another Nightmare ) I have a whole net bag (24 + 1 ) that has predominately powder blue instead of white swirls on all of them. I have some with Orange/Yellow blended in with the white, I have alternating White and Yellow swirls and some are a deep dark red base and some are a much brighter vibrant red. I suppose I could go crazy figuring out which are Fire or Fire Blaze and which are Roosters too. So I made up my own tag and call the real fancy ones Super Roosters. This is Vacor, it is sometimes like a box of Cracker Jack with a surprise in every net bag.

I think it's a Japanese marble. From the seams, it resembles one I questioned a little ways back. Of course, I am often wrong.

Thank you so much Al for responding with such a thought out post. I have Mega Marble net bags of Eclipse but my latest generation Michelangelo arrived in a bulk 2 lb package. I can see some slight difference in perhaps the duration of the making, a little wider ribbons of red, maybe a slight shade difference but to me, they are the same. The patterns are the same. Just rolled out at different times I bet. The Mummys, well . . . they just went into the Orangutan bin and net bag. If they are Mummys, I can always fix that down the road.

I am wondering if these are just the same marble. There have been at least 4 generations of "Michelangelo" and I do believe that I have a picture here of the most recent under the type that is now being net bagged and sold as "Eclipse". I just think they are the same just different names. Whadda ya know? and Thank you! ( Pictures make these look different shades but in hand they are the same. ) I am also thinking that some new version of "Mummy" is pretty much the same marble as the last "Orangutan"? To me there is little difference except maybe a slightly different base transparent glass. Orangutan appears (maybe) to be a bit orange, and Mummy somewhat purple. Duh, drives me nutz.

Yes, I watched it last night. Stephen, it's time to get a bigger case. LOL They are awesome Atmospheres. I am a MK fan too. I can afford the Marble Kings but I sure was tempted to chase one of those bags of three from the guy you got yours from. I bet they are all gone by now. Always looking forward to another vid. Thanks.

Cleaned it up this morning, got out some BINGO dabbers and took some more images. I know, it's a reproduction, but it's a nice one. The actual image is about 16 x 11 inches. This was under the frame mat on the litho.

"Knuckles Down" $3.99 at the Thrift Store this morning. It's lighter than the background yellow probably shows. I will be spiffing it up in the next couple days and hanging it in the cave. Pretty large frame at maybe 18 x 13 ? I haven't measured it. I thought it was funny that I had wanted one of these and stop in the place a few times a week looking for marbles. It seems to be printed on a board of some type. Still has rich colors but that mat has to get upgraded.

Watched this last night. That collection is way over the top! I met Ray at the NJ marble show. He's a neat guy. Stephen was over-amped on this video. LOL I collected Akro glassware decades ago. I might still have 10 pieces. Those tab ashtrays were epic. I especially was amazed at that identical twin pair. That gang Stephen has on his videos are some special and interesting people. I will get to another show someday. Keep up the great work Stephen.

I don't see a window? I thought it was a requirement for them? Not sure. Very nice.

That particular Orange and Red combination is distinct in my opinion and seen so often in Peltier. It strikes me as being almost exclusive to Pelts. But hey, just a thought.

Very nice, I don't have many if any at all.