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I too believe you found one.

I apologize if I called you any names or insulted you in any way for promoting the pamphlet even if it was in my opinion terrible, full of assumptions and bad information. I really don't remember doing anything like that but if I did I really am sorry for my behavior. And if it really makes you feel good please go right on insulting me.

Not me, Mike He is much more cleverer than I am. Read my post again Ann. I know a free shot at Galen is tough for you to ignore but my insinuation was far from what you interpreted from a simple statement. We all know you hate to agree with me about anything but sometime you may just need to think a little more before you take the shots. And just in case you did not know it does bother me when you constantly have to bring to light how painful it is when you do agree with me. I do not ever remember one time that I have been degrading disrespectful or plain nasty about any thing you have ever posted. Its is to bad I can not get the same in return.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hallmarks&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bJI3UoDOH8GsiAKusIGAAg&sqi=2&ved=0CH4QsAQ&biw=1536&bih=757&dpr=1 put your cursor over pics and websites come up. Some may be helpful

I wouldn't use the term Horse shoe for just any folded marble. Just the Vitro Cage types. Heck, that would make millions of Jabos horse shoes and butt crack is just so much better(LOL)

Gatesons version of that reptile eye

I never would have thought of the cosmic Rainbows as Horse-shoe cats. Just don't see it. Horse Shoe cats are folded caged cat eyes, are they not???

Better get your rooms reserved right away!!!! They are filling up quickly.

Sometimes I wish my stirring was as clever as yours. But I am afraid it would fly over too many heads.

Beautiful, my favorite type of Handmade

You make my smile so big it hurts a little!!!!!!!

I have my tickets.

Are we sure they only had a one directional selling clause in the contract or are we assuming Gropper was using other marbles . And Bob, I have a 1931 catalog that has Gropper Pelts and CAC CACs packages. I have no positive evidence as to when Gropper was selling CACs. I do know many CACc were sold after manufacturing ended.

ground and polished or torched. Looks more likely torched? is that a fake pontil mark?

I know a guy that has a bunch of old marbles whose surfaces are so sweet and minty they appear to have been placed in a sock and hidden away in a drawer from the day they were first bought. That same guy also has polished a bunch of marbles with a three head machine and with hand polishing pads. That same guy also has a few torched vintage marbles a few recently made from vintage cane and all sorts of others. He knows the difference better than most. Even some torch workers that think they are witty scientartists. And since you keep pushing I see no art to what you do in resurfacing a marble Rich. Skill yes Artistic qualities ,none. Now making a marble from scratch that has great eye appeal and really has a message, now thats ART. That guy with the marbles may even have some Artistic abilities.

And Gropper picked up CAC marbles after the split with Peltier I believe.

1931 is the year of the split from Gropper If My memory is correct. The 1931 triple fold brochure with types was the first year without the Gropper logo. I believe I read Gropper Helped get the marble making gouing moving an office into the Pelt plant and helping fund the purchase of some machinery needed for rounding marbles.

Apparently someone blind in one eye bad vision in the other and lost their glasses. Collectible is the condition of that marble IMO. Doesn't even deserve a number IMO.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-Vintage-Alox-Marbles-Unopend-Mesh-Bag-Marbles-Black-Americana-Toy-NOS-/290959775030?pt=Marbles&hash=item43be8dd536

You can pluck a duck but can you restore it?

Now thats funny!!!!!!!!!!!

When you have yourself convinced you do not collect Contemporary Marbles but this is hanging on the wall.

I was looking at the middle pic at a looping line a little below center running left to right across the marble. Looked like small roundish fractures extending downward off the color(white?) line

I could Agree with Scott that the bubbles are from a torch originally, but still from torch work. Thanks for the invite Rich but I have been lucky enough to make marbles with a torch and been with folks while they made them from a glory hole(which also involved a "torch") I have also been in several large glass studios, Chihuly, Orient and Flume and Benicias' Neurot quite often. My too quick observation and lack of title absorption made me think vintage instead of seeing a modern made marble, I stand corrected.

Looks more like the globs that some times form along some of the color strings in European machine made swirls. They also can get weird fractures on the globs that appear as mica or aventurine?