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The artery blocking comment by Duffy brought back this memory. I once had a 6'4" 165 lb room mate in college. He would go to a near by farm and get freshh milk from the Farmer. Bring it back to the apartment and churn out the butter. Then sit down at the table with a bowl of it and eat it like ice cream!!!!!! He would also get those 5 lb boxes of bacon ends and trims cook them up and dip french bread in the grease and cover it with the little crispies. Last I heard he was still alive??? Probably why I don't even butter my bread(LOL)

Looks CAC to me butneed much cleare pics because it does look like that could be a semi transparent base glass bleeding over the yellow and it is hard to tell how solid the colors are??

Mon, your just bummed you sold yours (LOL)

I used to be a privy digger, Always aged the holes by the age of the house and when plumbing was first installed. But we still found lots of stuff that was not from the time period from when the house was built to when the indoor plumbing was installed. That was some fun treasure hunting as folks usually left in the hole anything that dropped in accidentally. Coins and rings were not terribly uncommon. Marbles also showed on many occasions. Even found a neat complete China doll. As for marble groups I think a lot of times a semi-decent assumption can be made as to age. And like Ann I believe there are many handgathered marbles from Germany as I make the assumption that they followed similar processes that we did in the stages of marble making as they went from handmades to machine mades. I believe there are some 20s German adds that mention glass onyx types.

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Too freakin hot today 88 It is still over 80 and its almost 6:00. YIKES!!!!

Hope your birthday dinner involved more than bacon infused Veveeta!!!! I am thinking of preparing a bacon infused mac and cheees tomorrow

I am already over it Hansel (LOL)

I understood differently in the talks I had with him. And I wish I had pictures but I am pretty sure he sold more than a few on Ebay listed as from his personal collection. Maybe I am wrong. I already went way further into this than I wanted to. Craig can do it if he wants. Is anything posted here gonna change anyones mind?? Here are some pretty CACs. Mon, those were badass.

I saw it going through the papers on Mikes kitchen table. It is factual, choose to believe it or not. No reason to make the story up Hansel. I believe I even brought it to Mikes atttention but made no real big deal of it.. It was close to some papers he had from his trip to Japan to check on the cat eye manufactures. There were some awsome and accurate drawings he made on Hotel stationary of some of the equipment he saw at the Japanese plant.. Very neat stuff. It was simple, one line and with some other notations to himself if I remember correctly. If it made it to Chads he can probably locate it. Also just slightly surprised and insulted with the insinuation????

Marblealan actually had many beautiful marbles from that find in his personal collection and valued them greatly. He sold most off as he became ill.

Accidental find by a back hoe digging in the ground near the old CAC site. I was not there so I only have the stories I have heard people tell me.

My thoughts were darn close! Nice job!

It was among all the Peltier paperwork that came out of the safe. Much of the paperwork was in Sellers hand or carbon copies.

Wow, that is going back a ways, Can't believe you're still holding on to that. Another dead horse awakens(LOL) Pics be can real tough to judge marbles from. And I am sometimes wrong. I also may exaggerate now and again and get my time periods off by years. Getting older sure is fun

Darnit, that horse is getting awfully tenderized(LOL) Mon, just to clarify, I have been to many many shows in the last 10+ years. I have talked to many many CAC collectors at those shows on the phone and face to face . Not once did any of them ever utter the word Exotic when talking about or decribing CACs. That is a fact. I also never said they were fake. That is a fact. I did say that their surface under a 40x illuminated microscope has the identical manufacturing patterns and surface markings as vintage CAC slags etc. So if they are new they were made on CAC equipment with CAC glass in the exact same way as all the other CAC Striped opaques transparents etc that everyone excepts as vintage. Long story short, some guys dug them up, they got some smart folks to help them get the most for them so the crappier ones went out first the super killers went out last. Brian E got a lot of the great ones. Les got many of the first ones which were the simpler single color types that no one mentions any more. There were only a few folks involved and it was smart marketing so they could keep prices up. If the best would have been released first the crappier ones would not have sold for any where near what they were getting. They have all been released and it is now just movement between collectors. I don't type well enough to get deeper but anyone that really cares can give me a call. Or give Brian a call. And when I say "they" I am talking about the striped transparents submarines striped opaques cyclones and some cobras that were in the find that a few folks called Exotics to help make Ebay sales. I was not trying to say there is not a group of marbles from a certain find. Just that CAC collectors really do not use the term "EXOTIC" which is why IMO they do not respond to the term as it is way to broad and at this time it is hard to say whether a marble is from that find or not.

You said Bacon!! All pork products are GOOD!! Put the bacon bits in the cheese sauce!!! Now we're talkin

Very cool for sure!!!! What is the center light from?

Tinka onyx look very familiar.

Steph and Hansel, That is exactly what I thought to myself when I read it, wish I remembered more.

Sorry Mon, guess I should have put "now" in there for you. Been hashed over too many times, even I get tired of beating a dead horse. You either think they are real or don't. Some of us are lucky enough to have spent time with the guys that found them, believe it or not.

We had some patent pics posted at one time??

Dan why do you say they are not transitional. They are definitely hand gathered and machine rounded IMO. Bob, the best and only evidence I have ever seen on a Canadian manufacturer is a note Sellers Peltier wrote to himself that says, Check on the Canadian manufacturer. I would really be happy to see actual evidence of a Canadian manufacturer, but at this point in time we have no evidence other than they are almost all found in Canada and thats not much.

Guess I now need some of those. Anyone have any for sale?

Yes Andrea, The Circus marbles were German in origin, And Steph I do not think it is any thing other than there really is no such thing as an "EXOTIC" other than a very pretty CAC striped transparent, striped opaque submarine cyclone or even a swirl???? It is an even broader term than layered sand (which is another term hardly ever uttered by most serious CAC collecters. There is just no way to give a description as to what constitutes an "EXOTIC" other than "a word used to help sell CACs by a few folks on ebay"