bumblebee Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Only slightly out of round. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clay-marble-vintage-marble-/360422381482 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast_dave Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Lol....good grief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatmacscott Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Looks like an olive from an overly dry martini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 "This is in great condition. These pictures do not show its true beauty." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 looks like the raisonette my ex-wife found in the crack of her rear end one day,, ,j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Take a look at this one. Could it be one of these? I'd like to place them side and by side and compare. This one is a Vitro Agate. It's one of the first and only run of marbles that Vitro did using borosilicate glass. Vitro was contracted to do this run for industrial purpose marbles. This was dug by a friend of mine at the old Vitro plant and employess verified and told him what it was. They were never run again because the boro gutted the tank and it couldn't be used again. The company contracting the boro marbles was notified and no more were made. I was given this one last fall by a dear friend. He only found about 20 of them and he shared this one with me. The marble in the auction reminded me of this one. Could it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 By the way, mine is out of round also and i don't see the "V" on the one in the auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Am I the only one who sees a resemblance to the clay marble, dried plum? Mine is in better shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 It needs a story involving pyramids and ancient Egypt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mintster Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Yes! Something like... I found this in my great great grandfathers basement who was an archeologist in Egypt during the 1800's! SOLD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 By the way, mine is out of round also and i don't see the "V" on the one in the auction. You're giving a lot of credit to whatever that little lump in the auction is. That's very nice of you. The auction looks like a playground rock to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mintster Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 ROFL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Thanks for the side by side. i tried to do that and couldn't. The surface on mine is smooth, but the texture of the browns looks about the same. Also, using my imagination I think I can see some semblance of a "V" on the lump. mine is not quite round either, but it doesn't have the misshape of the dried plum. I still wonder if it might be a poorer example of the first machine made boro marbles. I imagine most of the good ones ended up in paint cans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 yep a rasonette,, lol,,j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 We did call those marbles when we had goats:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 It could be petrified goat poop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Rat dropping marble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Mighty big rat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ratzilla! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Naw! Ratzilla would have layed a more majestic marble than that! Hope I'm not deviating too quickly, but if you wouldn't mind I'd like to ask mintster what his avatar marble is. It's a real stand-out! ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nantucketdink Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 I neither kept this nor took a photo, but we found an Easter Egg (hardboiled egg) that had remained hidden for 20 years in my parents house. Inside the intact shell was an about 3/4" marble. I swear to god it looked exactly like a marble and was as hard as glass. There was no odor to the petrified egg at all. I didn't keep it because i wasn't collecting marbles at that point in my life, but this would have been the perfect place to post the photo. It was brown, slightly translucent, wet mint, and round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrappleseed Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 I think it just needs to be "buffed" out a little.......undernieth it's rough exterior is an "ULTRA RARE" Double lutz triple cyclone zombie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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