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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

That last is one crazy marble Ann love it Akro Onyx, one Auger

1" Akro cork

That is absolutely gorgeous, it literally looks like honey and makes me want a cup of hot tea

Wow, I really like that Orange and Green jeeperman, sweet! I just received this one in the mail today, this made my year. A purple Ace 17/32"

It was so much fun, and I just realized, no where in my first post did I mention what it was the Daytona 500. Always a good time

you are relentless! I promise, if I ever were to feel that need, you are first on the list! Those are some pretty nice Akros there bumblebee!

I'm really in love with that top right Akro in your photo

Yet too precious to become trash. I love this bumblebee <3 This one has annealing fractures, but looks like it was also in the ring a few times. It would definitely be one of my favorites. Green, blue and yellow on wispy white. 5/8"

Well technically, we were watching this yesterday Chuck and I, and my girlfriend and her mom, at the race, it was perfect weather!

Sweet blue eyelashes !

YAH! Thank you both! I LOVE the base glass on this one.

Thanks guys, my first metallic marble!

I'm hoping Akro ..... always lol

Ditto what JDing said. Here are some new ones I've received in the last week, not too certain about the top right one so I'll post it in the ID section

I have to know John...... No light spots or reflections, how did you do it? longer exposure?

This one made me swear! That is an insane marble, very nice Galen.