The Nickel Guy

I suppose they are about 3/4 inches. Certainly look like family. Other side is blank and transparent dark green.

Thanks Akroorka, and you other guys. I just got done looking at a whole lotta Vacors here and there. Hundreds of net bags and nothing came close. A lot of the Vacors look oily, sometimes even rainbow oily, like gas floating on water. This is shiny but not like that. I do like it no matter what it is.

Wonder who made this one? It's a typical player size at about 5/8th. Only one like it that I have. Left is with a flash, right side without.

You know, I just did a search for Fiber Optic Marble and found that they make these. Saw one that looked just like mine and was described as such and another like mine of course as rare mineral. Even the ones that look more natural can be man made. The ones with the grain and tight cracks. I saw one broken and inside it looked like there was some kind of metal disc. Well, I have had a big learning day! Thanks LATE EDIT - Not that I don't like it as much as I did at first. It still is an impressive sphere. Still a keeper for me.

How did you know how big my stocking was?

I just measured those two small ones. The 5 color is .54 Just over, the other is .49 though. Still nice lil fellers. I got another small one, in the batch too just a smidge larger than those. And a Red and White that is UVR I have several red and white but only this one glows.

Oh boy! I've got a good one.

Thanks! I think it's the one pee wee of the two I posted up there. Here I turned it and the yellow seems to be the same stripe. This is one cool marble. One of the best in the bunch for sure. I think it is Akro and I bet it's quite scarce. Here it lay in my hand same position. Then the next collage shows it turned. Hard to show the screw but it goes from top to bottom.

Thank you kindly!

Went back to my online auction source. There were 5 lots, I won three. You never know what they will look like but they go cheap. Here are the ones I won. Last night I cleaned them up and sorted them. Got some neat marbles, some brought a tear to my eye as they were damaged but did it have to be those ones that were messed up? Over all I did real good for the money. This is the same auctioneer who has a lot of my antiques consigned. I go down there and pick up my no sales. It's a 90 mile round trip I guess. Yesterday was ugly snow, for and rain. I'll post my sorted images later today. OK so that didn't take long. Here is how they sit right now before they get mixed in with their own kind in my collection. A cool pair of corkscrews. Just about 1/2 inch or smaller. I think this score yielded 17 corks in all. A few unusual ones for sure. Down there at 7 o'clock I see a Peltier feathered slag on brown transparent glass in great shape. Cats eyes were filler marbles but I like them. Shooters and boulders and the overflow. I made another post about these guys and Vacor ID today. There are 5 with hits here in the corner. There were others in worse shape that are in the junk box. That sunburst shooter I think is a Master Marble and it is sad that it has a hit. It is almost OK but it sure was pretty.

I would say this is about 1.6 inches or about 40 mm in diameter. It is so pretty, I don't want to scratch it with my calipers. Very simple Tiger Eye I believe. Kind of reddish brown rather than the tan brown. Just awesome but tough to photograph. Was in my latest score and I thought it was just a big glass red marble in the pictures. The equator is more defined than my picture shows and seems to follow you if you hold it in front of your eyes and move your head from side to side.

I think these are older 5/8th Vacor Serpents and this one inch I think is most likely a Vacor Centipede, but it is a bit lacking in the dark color though. Now these 12 are about 5/8th and appear to be Vacor or could be anything else. Anyone know the name if they are Vacor? 6 in one image with more closely matching swirls color, 6 in another. The base color is identical on all 12. (Late Edit: I have long since discovered these are Mega Marbles/Vacor "Volcano") and finally, I don't think these are Vacor at all. Maybe those three on the far right? Might even have something good in this bunch. Looks to be similar but 4 different marble types in all to me. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I agree, great and thoughtful response Alan. Thanks!

I don't see how they couldn't be. Look like clones almost, and nice ones too.

Today my recent marble trader gave me this big blue bennington boulder. It is 1.5 inches in diameter. He didn't want any money. I told him it was a really nice present and glad he didn't want money. I like it a lot more this way. So it is my biggest one so far. There is a pattern of circles there near the right bottom. Like it lay on a baking screen of some kind. Maybe in the making. I never saw that before on other bennington's or clays but it must have been baked on when it was once a softer glazed hunk of clay. See it? One picture with flash and the other without. Anyways, I like it.

I agree, Ella could have been traveling and sent the card from New Albany. Thanks for your post Steph.

The stuff dreams are made of

I bought this postcard for a couple bucks I suppose maybe 25 or 30 years ago in an antique store and I put it in this art deco frame I already had that once held a picture of a famous actor named Robert Taylor. The frame has a hinged backdoor and I thought I'll take a peek and see who and where did this get mailed and when. So the back reads. From Ellen Owen to Miss Bertha Buttles in Ricketts PA. Ricketts PA is a ghost town. There is a State Park nearby named Ricketts Glen near where that town once existed between Williamsport and Wilkes Barre. This was delivered around April 1, 1907. I'd hate to be a post office employee trying to figure out this chicken scratch. I can't make out the town New whatever PA it is from. I am glad it made it's way to me. I have it right in with my framed cats eyes marbles now.

I would think a lot of the white based Peltier rainbos are most recent to as late as 2002. Those ones that have the lines like on the baseball. Like these https://marbleconnection.com/joemarbles/1Marble Picture Pages/17Peltier/Peltier 006/The Peltier Glass Company 6.html

Perhaps I have two Vitro Elite Trilites from Vienna WV The dark greenish blue color is not common in Stephen Bahr's YT Vitro video or the website I posted just above at Joes website among the Aquamarines but I think these are twins, made at the same time. A Trilite can have 3 or more colors and now I know white is a color so I see 4 colors pretty much in three fairly equal sized defined patch sections. To quote Joes Marbles There are many other attractive Tri-lite sub-groups that are not named. That is OK. Many of us love these marbles and we may even have our personal names for them; but, we are also perfectly happy just calling them Tri-lites or Elites. They were not separated at birth and I think they should always stay together. I am going to call them my Vitro Trilite Elite Twins Thank you all for the opinions, attention and info given to this pair.

Found Vitro Elite https://marbleconnection.com/joemarbles/3Marble Articles/Chuck Brandstetter/0002 Older Vitro Marbles (Tri-Lites).html

All right, if it's not too late, COUNT me IN. I'll try to pick some pretty marbles I like. US mailing addy only please. ( Alright, I just packed up my mailing, just need an address ) Ho Ho Ho

I was lost at wispy. Just when does wispy begin and white end, lol. Just kidding.

Two of three colors appear to match this Vitro "Yellow Jacket" marble I found on Marble Alan's pages. But not the same pattern and no yellow of course. Looking at mine again, does white count as a color? If so, I might have 4 colors anyway. Ughhh.

Merry Christmas to all but I have to pass. I'm sure I have the marbles but I don't know enough about them. I would really not want to disappoint anyone with a lot of 5 marbles that wouldn't be exciting on one hand and on the other, I don't want to give away the farm. So maybe next year. Maybe I'll know more to be fair. I hope you guys and gals follow up and post pictures of what Santa brings you in the exchange. Anonymously of course, but it would be nice if first timers could have an idea of how things work out for everyone. LATE EDIT: I decided to join in after all. See below