The Nickel Guy

This is a recent rerun from the "Score" thread but it is one of my smallest but favorite marbles. A smidge over 1/2 inch. Just a skosh. Akro Agate 5 color Corkscrew.

Was going through my slags last night and I was able to spot these thanks to you guys and my better edjumacashin. Well, maybe the green one isn't but I am pretty sure the red and two blue are. They're close to 3/4 inches I guess.

All I can say is this is no small matter. LOL It's good when you can spot a single Jabo in the mix by experience.

Oh just another thought. Look at the lack of fancy in most of these Jabo pee wees. https://marblemary.com/?s=pee+wee I think that there is a good example of what some of the larger 5/8th production no name player marbles would look like. There are some neat ones mixed in but to me many look very common. I have a couple few hundred Jabo 5/8th marbles, some are quite fancy, others are run of the mill common marbles. So relax, I don't think we could figure them all out in a thousand years.

I kinda fell down the rabbit hole of trying to identify every Jabo or at least pigeonhole them into "runs" which I don't think applies. I am going to guess that some of our marbles look like they could be Jabos and very well could be but they may have been out of the furnace same day and look a lot like the next one but they don't always get named. Most all the 5/8th size I've encountered that are somewhat "Plain Janes" are just that. Production marbles made by Jabo, and packaged and sold in retail packages as playing marbles. There are the more fancy ones, made with more effort and care, gold lutz and aventurine added and nice threads of different colors, some glow under UV light. These are sold in small lots or boxes and may or may not have names and specific dates for the "Run". Sometimes they are 5/8th but quite often larger at most often 3/4 inches. So, I have learned to relax a bit on worrying about what run they are but if you have them identified or buy them as such, hang onto that identification. I am a fan of this seller, she's nice and her website alone is quite a display of the wide variety of marbles in this category. Link https://marblemary.com/product-category/jabo-marbles/ I don't know if I even gave accurate info here but this is about where I'm at with this stuff. Oh, one more thing. I like almost all of them. Not a big fan of speckled decorated marbles though. The confetti stuff doesn't do much for me nor does metallic lawn chair type swirls.

Lucky I took a picture before these awesome mibs from Akroorka got dispersed into their designated safe places. Superb lot! Luv 'em! Alley Agate Coral Swirl Vitro Agate Exotic Conqueror General consensus is that is an MF Christianson Brick Veiligglas Wirepull shooter Freaky Akro Agate Corkscrew boulder/shooter and a side dish 1929 D Buffalo Nickel I gotta pose here and show my best side.

It looks like 11/16 th but the good news is I think I found a couple 9 and tails MF Christianson while I was revisiting that tray. I think I'll take some pictures of them tomorrow. I am meeting my YMCA pool marble source tomorrow. I have my fingers crossed. Might be a good score.

Oh, I'm sorry I'll go measure it in a bit. Got put away but I think I can spot it easy enough.

When you say "post" Fire, I assume you mean "mail" and not put pictures up of what you got in the exchange right? Some people do say post in place of mailing.

Holy smokes. I watched this on TV this morning. I bet there was 5 to 8 thousand bucks there that I think cost Adam $1060.00. I was a bit jealous I guess. Picked up a lifetime of collecting in one morning of awesome marbles. Many were already identified and bagged. I can't believe that all he gave Stephen was a "slow cork"! I think he could have said "keep it" or "it's yours" a few more times.

Poor thing

But it glows crazy. It has been played with but still acceptable. Just makes it I guess, but not junk. I was very surprised to see it light up under the UV. Any ideas? I'm guessing Vitro Agate. Thank you!

Very nice of all of you to take the time to ponder and post. Thank you! This marble almost got junk piled but now thanks to ya'll I;ve come to like it a lot more.

Merry Christmas Art !

Right back at ya. Doggie is giving us a side glance and a smile.

We ( Akroorka and I ) had a most pleasant and successful marble exchange. We had some great communication too. I hope everyone has as much fun as I did. Thank you!

I reduced the images in size anyway. Orange has never been my best color to photograph. Second picture still looks lousy. I'm gonna fix that. Best I could do fixing. Is the first a Jabo?

I am convinced you are correct with Alley Coral Swirl. Thank you!

Looks like they were making these Jabos at the time.

I've been here active for I guess a little over half a year and I have been treated so well. Lots of polite and patient people and it should get mentioned. Thanks everyone and if you celebrate Christmas, may it be a wonderful one this year for you and yours. If you celebrate or observe something else, I wish you just the same.

Isn't this a little beauty? A generous gift from a good friend. I thought it just might be Christianson Agate Co but perhaps it is West Virginia Swirl. It is .59 inches in diameter. Thank you.

That was my first guess too but I have a secret ballot for Akro here too. Thank you very much for the reply CharlieT.

Think you know who made it? Added Edit - This is .71 inches in diameter. I'd appreciate your answer. Thank you!

Thanks Alan. Good theory. It is in mangled mint condition anyway.

I think it could be double ingot. Obviously a Jabo?