The Nickel Guy

Diagnosis: Mega Obsession Disorder My collection continues to grow. I am assembling my own sets, reusing net bags and making up my own tags. I am at about a dozen short of 3000 Mega Marbles. All sorted alphabetically and on a spreadsheet. Top case has either 24 plus a shooter or needs a shooter. On the floor are generally sorted, less than 24 count lots and shooters. Some might not care for these Mexican marbles but I assure you, there are some truly beautiful ones to be had, even some common modern issues can be very nice. I have found numerous odd hybrids and off the wall color combos that I have seen nowhere else yet. Where I can't find a label, I have made up my own. If only I could find a trading partner.

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Well, I hope you keep coming back. This might be about people just as much as it might be about marbles around here. I like ya!

Thank you so much for the clarification! My three are just the same cobalt with white patches in the 5/8th range. No muddy area inside the white on mine either which looks like another one of the requirements. When mine grows up it wants to be just like Fire's.

Ohhhhh Has to be large huh. I think mine are 5/8th inch. Look very much like that but size matters i this case. Thank you kindly VaMarbles.

In my recent purchase of a few hundred Vitros, three had deep cobalt blue transparent base glass with a white patch. Maybe that is just what it is. However, I wonder what the criteria is for a Blue Devil. I am thinking there is some tan or brown in the mix of the white. Like it is a little muddy that makes it one? Please post one if it rolls by. Thanks

Looks like a lotta fun. I'm in PA too! Glad you are here.

My Marble King and Vitto collection now. A Happy Marble Kingdom. A vacation in Vitro Land Oh well . . . back to the Mega Marbles.

and the Vitro

I had it full a couple times sorting today. I left some oddballs on it for this picture. I made it through my new "Score" of Marble Kings this afternoon. They are in great condition. Now for the Vitros!

Finished up this morning. There are more like 160 holders on the bleachers. Drilled every one by hand. lol Today . . . what a coincidence! I am getting a package with about 800 marbles. Pictures will follow. (It will fit in my aquarium too.) Maybeeeeeeee?

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I think it's a jabo. I like it.

I'm gonna guess that that "black one" is a orange patch on a transparent dark blue or dark green?

Looks like a Heaton Sweet Pa tater to me.

I slept well last night! Thank you! I found this graded card . . . since I posted LOL I collect old non sports cards. It is a 1933 Chicle R102 no 35 It's an odd series which I found quite a few of. It's not mine. You can see the holes to use the string. Shows a picture of the back on eBay. link

Welcome!

I did the wow. Thought of Ignatz throwing bricks. lol Those are amazing specimens.

I bid on 55 marble lots and only won 3 but I am glad. I was lacking these Marble King Rainbows in my collection and they may be quite common but they have a certain nostalgic value for me. These were the kind in my bag, the Vitro's too and the rest that I played with were cats eyes. I can't wait til I get my shipping bill and pay for them. I think I did OK and many of the lots I passed on went quite high. This hobby is very alive and well. Total marbles on the way soon comes to just over 800! woo hoo!

Very nice! Going through them is always a lot of fun. You did well.

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Those marks shown in the top right are not in the marble. It is a reflection of some kind. It appears to some degree on all 6 pictures.

At one time I had two old miniature team nodders. One was the Dodgers and the other I think was the Angels. They were like the big versions in every way except they were probably half the size. Sold them on eBay and they fetched a great price. Now I just have these SAMs Bobble Heads. Ripken, Ryan (set of 4 teams) and my Mickey Mantle. I have another Ripken here by somebody else too. I have a political one I am quite fond of but stay out of politics here.

OK, I imagine it would have appeared like this rotating top over bottom real fast huh? Thank you, off my bucket list LOL

Oh, I need the backside of the card to make it work. I don't have that, but I get it. Oh my, what wasted time I spent on that incomplete puzzle. Thank you. But I might make a rider by hand, lol and post.