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CLICK ON THE ANIMATED GIF PICTURE BELOW TO SEE ALL MY EBAY OFFERINGS....MORE TO FOLLOW.....ALL AUCTIONS WILL BE ENDING ON SUNDAY EVENING (29-JAN-2012)

Here is an old English Victorian Doorstop I'm selling on the bay. CLICK ON THE PIC BELOW to go directly to the auction. You can also CLICK HERE to see an archive of it posted on this board about 4 years back. The auction is scheduled to end (TONIGHT) Sunday Mar 16th at 9:03pmPST

Here is my definite score of the year!….a 15/16” Red Vitro Wedding cake!…..caught you guys sleepin……hehehehe…..Here is the link to the auction picture that helped me decide it was a vitro wedding cake. The seller had them listed as Alleys (with one large one). There are still deals to be had on eBAy

Okay ....those are some awesome examples.....give me a few and I'll post what ive got.... I have been on a serious quest for collecting WVS now for the past 4 years....and at the time, I knew that most of the beautiful WVS swirls and flames were "sleepers"....A couple of years ago, it was my understanding that with reference to marbles, the term "calligraphy" referred to a group or designation of Alley Agates (maybe some other WVS's too) flame/swirl marbles that have choppy, thin, long or short swirls that resemble the writing style......thus the name "calligraphy swirl" the name stuck with me ever since Even though not all all Alley flames fit this category, it is my opinion that certain swirls will definitely take on "calligraphy style" accents about them. Below are some extreme examples that I would classify as Calligraphy Swirl/flames (i still have a few more like the one steph pictured above from lmtfi) Here are some other fantastic Alley Flames that I feel don’t fit the bill........can you see the difference?

got thru to live chat yesterday at this time and filed a claim as well..... I believe after I sent this via live chat with their fraud department and they substantiated it, his auctions were no longer permitted: Hi, I am a marble collector who collects HIGH END MARBLES….I bought a marble from a seller who at the time being has the name mikesXXXXXXXXXXXXmarbles The marble I purchased from him is a High end Ravenswood Swirl……here is the completed eBAy transaction# XXXXXXXXXXXXX The problem is that this item and others that this person has sold and have listed right now are in the possession of other collectors. I have tried and so have others, to make contact with the seller and none of us have been contacted back. He has already STOLEN hundreds of dollars by fraudulently listing items that don’t belong to him. The items are High end marbles……. What course of action can I and others take to get our money back?…….He only got $25.00 from me on my auction but got hundreds of dollars on several other auctions…..If you check protocol, I am sure you will find that there have already been complaints pouring in about this seller….. so can’t there be something done about allowing this individual to continue ripping off buyers? I am not someone being vindictive, as I have a list of other eBAyers who have been ripped off by this guy too. Here are some other fraudulent auctions that have already closed that have been CONFIRMED merchandise in other peoples collections:

Oh Geezzze.....add me to the list of "nose wide open" drooling fools....I may have been taken also ....have a look at a posting I just made at LOM

Thank you all for the condolences and kind words....for those who wish to attend, there has been an update (in red) to the original message showing the change for the funeral service

CHARLES W. PORTER SR. AUGUST 1 1933~~~~~~~~~~~APRIL 2 2010 My father finally lost his battle with Alzheimer and Parkinson’s disease at 9:24am on April 2 2010. He was hospitalized the day before with bouts of throwing up and complaints of chest pains where he made it through the night but never recovered. The good news is that he doesn’t have to suffer anymore and has moved on to a better place. My father got me started with marble collecting about 11 years ago just prior to my retirement from active service military duty (USAF). He had already been a serious collector since before 1985 when he retired from the Los Angeles Wilshire Blvd. VA Hospital as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist. He soon opened an establishment dedicated to marbles and glass called, “Chucks Antiques Marbles and Memorabilia” located in Pasadena, California. The store flourished and was successful for many years with the aide of my mother who diligently contributed and assisted my father in the store’s success. The store is still there but never really opened back up for business after my mothers’ death in 2005. Viewing of the body, which will be held on Sunday the 11th and both the internment and funeral services will be held on Monday the 12th of April 2010 at Rose Hills Memorial in Whittier, California. Cards and floral donations can be sent to 3660 Monterosa Drive, Altadena, California 91001

CHARLES W. PORTER SR. AUGUST 1 1933~~~~~~~~~~~APRIL 2 2010 My father finally lost his battle with Alzheimer and Parkinson’s disease at 9:24am on April 2 2010. He was hospitalized the day before with bouts of throwing up and complaints of chest pains where he made it through the night but never recovered. The good news is that he doesn’t have to suffer anymore and has moved on to a better place. My father got me started with marble collecting about 11 years ago just prior to my retirement from active service military duty (USAF). He had already been a serious collector since before 1985 when he retired from the Los Angeles Wilshire Blvd. VA Hospital as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist. He soon opened an establishment dedicated to marbles and glass called, “Chucks Antiques Marbles and Memorabilia” located in Pasadena, California. The store flourished and was successful for many years with the aide of my mother who diligently contributed and assisted my father in the store’s success. The store is still there but never really opened back up for business after my mothers’ death in 2005. Viewing of the body, which will be held on Sunday the 11th and both the internment and funeral services will be held on Monday the 12th of April 2010 at Rose Hills Memorial in Whittier, California. Cards and floral donations can be sent to 3660 Monterosa Drive, Altadena, California 91001 Update........ Funeral services are now being held at Woods Valentine Mortuary/Chapel located at 1455 North Fair Oaks Blvd Pasadena 91103 and the internment will be at Rose Hills Cemetary, 3888 Workman Mill Rd. Whittier 90601

Does anyone know how much glass was used for a particular run?....The reason I'm asking is because Large chunks of cullet....(some cases 45 pounds) have been sold on eBay on a regular basis (do a search for "cullet" under marbles). Some of these chunks of cullet already have the glass mixed and in some cases the flame pattern already in the glass....I really don't know the whole process by which the marbles were made, but you could figure that if some of the flames were done intentionally, perhaps the glass was placed in the vat in layers to give the flame effect reminiscent of the large pieces of cullet found. Here are some pics of cullet being sold on eBay right now. The first one being the 45lbs specimen......I understand that tanks as well as the nozzles were cleaned to put different colors in between runs and that glass was discarded, but look at the layers of glass in that chunk.....why would they waste that much glass..... I have a theory that perhaps the glass was layered like this on purpose before it reached the nozzles to make flames and other intricate designs.......Anyone care to elaborate?? PS- This seller is from Arkansas and appears to have a lot of Large Cullet pieces that favor Glass used by WVS companies

Howcome no one has mentioned the patterns seen on cullet......I have seen large chunks of cullet that have the flame pattern already in the glass....Some of them look like they could have purposely "layered" glass in the vat (or gob feeder) before injecting the glass.....Could some of the more "intricate" ones have been made this way?

Here are two blue and yellow supposed Akro patches, the one on the right looks as if it started to spin but stopped (didnt quite make a complete revolution). And the one on the left appears to have not spun at all but is definitely Akro....whether this was done intentionally or by accident remains a mystery.....

I remember when I bought that marble, it was advertised as a Peltier Pearlized Single Banded Rainbo..... I paid $17.00 for it and thought I had the find of the century!....lol. When the marble came in, It took a while and the help from this board to realize that it was aventurine....Lizzy (ponkochan) pointed out to me that it was a Vitro whitie and stated that most of the green ones are loaded with aventurine...The pics on the auction were totally out of focus and fooled me into thinking it was pearlized.

Here are the pics that show the shear mark of the marble a little better The spinning pic was a rush job but you can still get a feel for the marble

Dont go anywhere folks....Ive got some pics comming...The vaseline marble does have what looks like the crease shear mark on Rogers link. however, it is smooth on one side and a little rough on the other.....just as soon as I finish the pics, I will post for your viewing pleasure (30min.)

Brad, I cant answer your question right now as the marble is packed away.....but as I remember, there were no groves whatsoever in the mib.....I have to go and pick up my daughter I'll be back in about an hour or so....and I'll pull the marble out for a thorough inspection .....and also some close-up pics

I heard or read something about reverse handgathereds...........it said something about back in the day perhaps it was politically incorrect to be "left handed" ....therfore that could be one of the factors that very few "reverse twists" were made.....anyone heard or read anything of the sort?

Very nice marble Brad.......lets just do a trade....even money for the purple one.....lol

Hey Brad, do yo have a detailed view of you avatar marble?...way cool!......does it look anything like this?

Thanks Brad

Did MFC make vaseline Nine and tails or would this be an Akro?.....glows wildly

Hand gathered.......nice nine and tail.......MFC? or German?

The problem has been solved.......it was the difference between using the two different skin selector types available in the "drop down boxes at the bottom left of the page (IPB 2.2.0 Default and Large Type Skin).... Using the Large Type Skin is what is causing the page error, so I switched back to using the IPB 2.2.0 and wala!, no more errors..... -Chuck Jr.

I am receiving page errors whenever I try to post. I am unable to post any threads with pics. this started happening to me last night and has continued thru today. Does this have anything to do with the message in "my controls" that says, "You have used 1.98mb of global upload space"....? perhaps I have reached my limit of global upload space?.....can one of the moderators please look into my situation? -Chuck Jr.

I had to do that previous post........ I thought it was funny, but seriously here is my go-along….from Holland….marble is slightly larger than 7/8ths and the dish measures 2 inches. The back of the dish says: Delft Blue Hand Painted (the “ed” part of the word “painted” didn’t quite fire in the kiln and is a little obscure), above that is a wreath which looks like olive branches encircling a small letter “e” with a three pointed crown on top. On the bottom are the numbers 855. It was pointed out to me that perhaps this was a boiling stone, to be put in a pot of water to help the water boil faster......in any case, its an interesting peice.....