The Nickel Guy

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.

Nice ones. I give you a trophey for the marbles and a thumbs up for the awesome deal.

You have amazing photography skills. If I could be half as good at that I would be quite happy with accomplishing that. I had an idea that with you great images, you could do searches on Google using the upload image function for ID (and do ask here as you have too). That way you will find some like yours below and most all of them are already ID'ed for you. However, some people misidentify what they pictured for either deception, or they just don't know what they have. Go with the general consensus. I TRIED to leave a link here where I used your top marble image but it did not work for the post but it worked for me doing it. They are Cat's Eye type. there are many different kinds of them so it narrows things down. Just an idea. Once you figure out the type, then study a bit about that type. It takes time and effort to learn about marbles but it is fun and worth your time. Link FAILED

It looks like there is a bit of translucent along the white to me in a couple places. nice ones for sure.

I do not think it is Vacor

Looking Jabo to me but that's just a best guess.

I would be thinking Marble King Rainbow with a strange mix of some of that brown and white blended in the patch.

In todays assorted net bag. A poisoned "Poison Dart Frog" ? 10/8/25 LATE EDIT : After getting the lone mib here pictured, I started to get these by the dozen in Hobby Lobby asst net bags after this making this post. I understand these were initially sent to Canada for sale there and identified as "King Penguin". I suppose Vacor is distributing some inventory in the asst bags in the US now.

I have a question hiding here on pg. 14 at the top I guess. Are the current Michelangelo the same marble as the current Eclipse? I can't seem to differentiate one from the other. If there is a difference, what would it be and Thank you!

She will love that present. Nice!