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Here is some beautiful accidental aventurine.

That is a beauty!

Merry Christmas to all!!

Rich, It is believed by most in the collecting community that aventurine was not used on purpose in machine made marbles. Besides no need it is also too expensive and they used their own glass in making their marbles. They would not have taken the time or trouble to make aventurine glass to make marbles purposefully sparkly IMO Modern collectors think they are neat so assume it was done on purpose. This just was not the case, Even Oxblood turned out to be too troublesome and expensive to bother using. Handmades are a different story. There were many sparkly glasses used

I do not believe anyone made machine made marbles with pieces of oven brick in them intentionally. As stated earlier it is fairly common and I would have a hard time placing any real value on the marbles.

some oxbloods made from scratch by Brian Graham and a very old Oxblood pull

I see nothing but a German marble in Winnies post.

Lloyd, those are spectacular!

Spectacular!!!!!!!

Bob Block started calling any onionskin that the colors did not stretch from pontil to pontil EODs. They are not in any way whatsoever. I used to have a major antique paperweight collection and there were several End of Day weights in it. They were clear glass filled with small broken pieces of colored canes latticinio canes milliflores and lots of other small broken pieces of glass. In onionskins when the colors were blotches instead of full lines I guess it reminded folks of broken pieces so they started getting the EOD handle. It is actually not used much with marbles any more. (Thank goodness)

Must be a real neat swirl David. I have many many swirls with a few flame tips. They are still just swirls. My earlier post was meant to be funny

Another case of some folks taking things way to serious. I can imagine a million things worse than someone having an auction on ebay with a ridiculously high reserve. And so what if folks bid and do not win. Good grief David, you really need to get out and smell some roses. Or do you just need a hug?,

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I really doubt that that post will lead to confusion. Man, I hope folks do not take those kind of posts that serious. These boards are supposed to be fun. Folks tend to run from too serious.

eggzackery! The threads all meet at the pontil on the last 2 marbles. They sure don't come close on Mikes.

Does not really look much at all like the first one IMO

Very neat oddity Mike.

obviously he bought clear based Sulphides. I would also need many more pics of the 8 odd marbles. And I have already sent him a message asking him what mint means to him, No damage or damage

Vacuum packed works great for large ammounts. Packed in such a way that there is no movement will usually be fine. You can download from photobucket.

With the new megapixel cameras you can actually get far enough back to use the camera flash(with macro) and get a great pic with plenty of focal depth. Just crop the marble out of the pic and it should look great.

they have been finished in such a way that they are perfectly smooth. There appears to be hand work done. They are 23/32 and have neat mottled coloring. Here is another pic.

I have found that almost anything can take the lines off some unglazed lined chinas. It is almost like they used watercolors for the paint. some are fairly hardy and can take soapy water. First, do a very small area first with a q-tip would be my suggestion

Bakelite marbles for game. I had a pic of one game that used them but can not locate it.

I have bakelite marbles that came in a Game.

Crazy bidding IMO. I have thousands of all vintage marbles I would sell in a minute for 10 cents a piece. And I would throw in hundreds of Jabos for free.