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Another orange. Orange might be my favorite

This is one of my favorites, an orange cork on a smoky mossy bubbly base. I think there is a separate reddish ribbon laying over the top of a sunken light orange snake. It's most apparent in the third photo where the top red deviates from the orange.

A very light blue corkscrew on a very light amber base.

A salmon corkscrew on a deep black base. Hard to see in photos but there is a dark gray stripe running along side the lighter pink.

Yellow Onyx. Large bubbles.

A red and dark blue corkscrew on a mossy base...... Moss agate family?

Not sure where else to put this guy. A cork that messed up? Makes me think of a Hammerhead shark

A light blue Snake on an amber bubbly base

A purple cork in an opalescent base....... Ace I'd like to say.

Great thread! Moss Agate corkscrews Although I'm not too certain about the blue at the bottom center, it has whispy white.... not sure.

Agreed. And if I win the lotto, I'm taking the marble world by STORM

Watching that one too

Onyx with a thin black outline

Moss Agate corkscrew group

That's a really nice first "hook" find. A sulphide for two bucks in whatever condition . It would be nice to have a collection that one of my parents had as a kid, sentimental value is so much more. I metal detect as well, my first good find was my very first day. I found an 1889 Morgan silver dollar on the beach. Seriously hooked. And nothing even remotely close since but still very fun and a good excuse to get out in the sun and sand.

Cool greens Steph, love that battled marble Here is an example that I look at from time to time of a polished Akro Limeade. It came to me identified as a polished marble, and I like to reference it. You can see where the whispy white doesn't "flow", it's definitely broken up.

Wow, beautiful Love them both! (and it's not sir )

Love that aventurine and jeeperman, is that really an aventurine spiral ?

I seriously understand this cheese. I actually hadn't really been a collector until about 12 years ago. Before eBay, I collected Hot Wheels, and had so much fun doing it. When I joined eBay, I thought I realized the potential and pretty much grabbed everything at estate sales and tried to make money at it. All of a sudden I was an antique watch collector, a milk glass collector, a vinyl record collector (mostly the 45's), a walking cane collector, a cast iron bank collector, an antique clock parts collector.......... Until my dining room turned into a storage unit. And at that point I realized - what a mess. ........ Stop. I was enjoying the search and then the research and selling. Until I came across marbles. I found the usual pinkish based swirl marbles and was trying to id them. While I was researching them, I came across an eBay auction , a blind auction, of a "tube of vintage marbles" with a Buy It Now price of $5. When I received the tube of marbles, I was so excited to try and identify them, at that point, I had scoured my local book stores for marble identification books and read every page. I decided on about 10 of the recently acquired marbles from the "tube" that they were Peltier NLRs. I took several photos of them and put them in a Marble ID forum, for which I SO NERVOUS Turns out, I was right! I was so excited that I had correctly identified them, but I was still in the buy and sell mode. I sold them. There is nothing I regret more in my marble history than that. I received a great profit from them because I asked Marble Alan to sell them for me, which he did wonderfully. When I brought them to him, I said I thought one had a tiny thin line of oxblood running through it, which it did. He sold that one marble separately. Once they were sold though, I looked back at the crazy estate sale I had purchased initially and spent so much time on and hadn't been able to identify...... and fell in love. I started searching out marbles like crazy, I started going every Saturday morning to garage sales, asking if they had any marbles they would like to sell, and I'll tell you, parents have no issues selling their kid's marbles lol. I bought so many current/recent marbles, but it was okay. I wanted everything marble. I became hooked. I'll tell you all at this early point in my collector life, I came across a photo series of one of our collectors here, and became seriously inspired. I collect now, and for pretty much the last 11 years, Akro Agate. Love them and the variety that is. It never ends. (By the way, my Hot Wheels collection ended when my house was burglarized and they took three large tubs of my very hard to find Hot Wheels. That ended Hot Wheels for me.) Glad to be here. Love this community.

hahaha! That's awesome Steph Dubble Bubble were my favorite when I was a kid, I would look for them first in my Halloween candy. These and Bazooka, but I only liked those for the mini comics inside each individual wrapped piece, the gum was always way too hard.

This is a fun conversation I am having leftovers from last night, made enough for four families, so I guess Chuck and I will be eating this through out the weekend lol. I guess you could call it a goulash type dish, browned lean hamburger and a mild ground sausage in taco seasonings simmered with beef broth instead of water, drained and rinsed black beans, spicy chili beans, diced tomatoes and peppers, corn, and rigatoni. Turned out pretty good.

That purple and orange snake

Green slag with oxblood. Beat up , but the only one I have like it.

That is an amazing collection of metallic, I've never seen so many in one place I only have a few to add. My one inch with metallic, Master. Then the group shot- the largest in the top right is 19/32" , the smallest on bottom right is 7/16" a tiny little thing.

Green bubbly base mmmmmmm