The Nickel Guy

Group one 5/8 Purple tinted Gray base with White and sky blue swirls. Not iridescent. Group 2 5/8th Transparent base with single white patch, somewhat shiny with light iridescence. Group 3 We are not Bengal Tigers at 5/8th but have that same orange base. The top right might be a bit distorted tiger but red, green and blue is not found on Bengal Tigers. GOING WITH CLOWNFISH HERE Group 4 5/8th Black opaque base with a white brushed patch on one side and a purple/tan/white blended brush opposite side. Going with "Orca" here. Group 5 Mixed bunch Top row of three purple tinted gray opaque base. Left is 5/8 two right are 9/16th if that. They have the same colors in use but I am not convinced they are the same mibs. The two on the right look almost identical. I just can't find any this color combo. This one I am pretty sure is a "Streamer" Bottom three, left white swirl is a little larger than 5/8th. Not iridescent. But it came out of a asst bag of Mega Fun marbles. I am going with "Rainbow" on this one. Has a patch on either side. In with a yellow one now that had me stumped. Center is 5/8 and very iridescent but I find it is not a Jelly fish in color. It might be a weak Polar Bear lacking black highlights in the swirl. Right is 5/8, Colors look very familiar, but this one lacks a typical pattern to identify. The backside has a rather large area of thin purple.

I think I posted these before but in a group. I have about 20 or so, some other stuff could qualify as paperweights too. No Baccarat or Clichy but still very neat to display. They don't mingle with the marbles.

Beautiful collection Mojo. Thanks for posting.

Real Bees? Yikes

Wow wow and wow here. Akro is what got me hooked.

Welcome to this forum. I see numerous Mega Marbles from Mexico in there. The confetti covered frit on black and a clear one with frit. All those yellow based ones with the wavy stripes. Orange transparent with white stripes and the blue and yellow ones. Common cats eyes and common clearies.

Thank you. I don't know if I'll remember to post tomorrow for Akro Friday so I get in here a few hours early. I took these pictures after making that Blue Green gif. I have other Akros but I'm only showing my corkscrews and snakes here. There's about 5 lazy corks and a mutant boulder and another cool one that looks like a leaf appears on the beginning or end, but they both turn from pole to pole. These are now resting in the glass covered tray as seen in pic 1. I think they look better scattered rather than sorted by like kind,

I made this animated gif tonight of the only one I have. It is quite different than yours. It is green on blue though.

Last pic, bottom right green looks like a peltier to me.

MCS is a multi colored swirl I am guessing. I have pretty many swirls but nothing like that. Very nice.

No it's a cat, just a top pole view of how wavy the veins are.

Thanks for that info. Since that picture was taken, I have found a few more nice ones. I am due to take a new group picture. I'll try to get better pictures of my blue/green one.

Looks like caramel.

I watched again and found another video where he went to the same place and found a "Cookies and Cream" which had colors like the three above. Just thought I'd update. Thanks . The small one probably is a Jabo. I will get more exact sizes later. ( edit: I did and corrected post 1 ) I'm off to the pool.

As a kid, I would have been thrilled to get one of these 60 plus years ago. Today, even though they have no real monetary value they still bring back my earliest marble memories. and . . . I still like them. 3/4 to 1 inchers. I think a couple are better than others here but here they are. I have a hundred or two common small ones too.

I was watching Rocks Cousteau. I am a fan of his dump digging videos. He was specifically working a Marble King dump site and getting awesome cullet glass, lots of Rainbows and Cats Eyes and then he pulled a marble that he said was an "error" and maybe had a double ingot but it looked to have this color glass and looked similar in design. EDITED SIZES: So I remembered I had these three, pulled them and took a picture series. One is a little larger than 3/4. Another is probably just shy of 3/4 and the smallest is 5/8. I could measure them but maybe that is close enough for purposes here for now. These three marbles could be from three different companies for all I know, but they look very similar to me. Rocks was not getting any other marbles, only MK in this watery spot. I tried to find that video again but he has so many, it is kind of lost for now. Here's my best pictures. Thank you!

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I like that, someday I hope to find one. I don't know whether it is a copperhead or not but from what I recall, maybe? Someone will validate. Neat!

So, I got all my little Lego wannabee pc's and assembled this twice. The first looked really neat but did not do well with marbles on it for pictures. These are just my least wanted mibs I had in a box and used them. So I took it all apart and put a lot of the black on the inside and kept the top all gray. I remembered that most of my best images come from a gray background. These were just a few marbles I had laying around loose.

call the shop tomorrow and they'll hold it for ya.

Most dealers will even give you a discount if you ask. I bet the box alone is worth that much. Nice find.

Verdict is in. Asian. Thank all. It is now my favorite Asian marble. LOL

I show the second picture to refer to the type of marble that my first picture could easily be mistaken for, I do not think my first image shows an asian or marble that was packaged by imperial. I think that marble I took images of and made a collage of sorts of different views of it is not exactly a newer marble, I think it is maybe Vitro. I can see some resemblance in this image from Joes Marbles site. https://marbleconnection.com/joemarbles/1Marble Picture Pages/21Vitro/Vitro 008/1 Vitro Large Pages/The Vitro Agate Company 8-38.html

This marble has a translucent area which you can probably see and has three other patches on an opaque white base. If it were not for that translucent area it could have easily been junk boxed for one of those Imperial marbles of which I have a bunch of. I would like to know what it is. I do know, for a somewhat not so exciting marble, I sure do like it a lot. Thank you!

Thanks! I feel like I enrolled in either occupational therapy or pre-school. I am keeping the gray base plate that arrived today even though I don't have a single next size up Lego block yet. (shown below with the bag of 200 smaller black blocks) I'll be keeping an eye out for them locally or maybe buy them down the road some time. A yard sale or Craigslist? These two size items are not compatible in any way but I thought they were. The description said they were but what they meant was this knock off brand was compatible with "Lego" brand pieces. A large or small marble will stay put on either size though when centered within any 4 pegs.