Steph Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Hopefully this can be mostly a photo thread and not so much a debate thread. Wherever they might have come from, would love to see some examples of exotics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 So a priest, a minister, and a rabbi are in a bar..... (Oh gosh. I'm so sorry. I couldn't help it!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Why I oughta !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Here are some CACs. I do not know what an exotic is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Don't know my technical terms, but 'exotic' wouldn't be a bad word for these. Outrageous! ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Marbles Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Here is an old net photo I had Labeled Exotics...but I must admit, I do not know what qualifies for the "Exotic" Name. These I would call CAC stripped transparents & CAC stripped opauges. Was "An Exotic" a MarbleAllan given name?? (Sorry photo was removed by request.} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinemades Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 First time I heard the description "Exotics" was one of the last Danny Turner Running Rabbit auction for couple of unusual "Guineas". After Marblealan bought RR auctions he used the term freely for any high end Christensen ST/SO marble. At one point there was a controversy regarding these marbles as being fake but I think that argument lost it's momentum after the availability of these rare marbles diminished. At one point Marblealan was selling tons of them triggering suspicion among collectors if these are really rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I remember reading some heated debates over the term and the rarity. The marbles given this name went for many hundreds of dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Couple of great older threads on this make for excellent reading (along with viewing): http://marbleconnection.com/topic/15989-examples-of-exotics/ (12 pages - check out those Shamrock "exotics"!)http://marbleconnection.com/topic/11875-cac-striped-opaqueschristensen-exotics/ (10 pages) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 (Sorry photo was removed by request.} ooo...a removed photo sounds very mysterious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Gosh darn it. David Chamberlain had vanished from my memory until I clicked that link!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 Well. Reading both those old threads was fun. I've forgotten how much I'd forgotten. So where were we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg11 Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 yeah they just took all those beautiful exotics and dumped them in the ground one afternoon while cleaning up the factory, maybe a digruntled employee ... this is one of those things we will never know, like the great pyramids.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibstified Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 I just call'em SO, STs, Subs, Cobras, cyclones, etc. Never latched on to the "exotic" term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Alleynut Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 sorry about the blurry photos, here's a couple,DB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Alleynut Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 a few more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaMarble Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 sorry about the blurry photos, here's a couple,DB. Hey - I've seen that box before! Looks great in hand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 I'm guessing http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHRISTENSEN-AGATE-STRIPED-TRANSPARENT-ONLY-9-16-SUPER-RARE-/141577364489and several others sold recently by this seller are "exotics", no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 You probably will not get too many serious CAC collecters calling any of their CAC marbles Exotics. It was a term brought in to existence for some folks to sell good looking CACs and really has no bearing on any particular type IMO. I don't use it, way too broad a term to describe any CAC marble IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Galen: Was it those "circus marbles" that were decided to be actually German-made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 I'm guessing http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHRISTENSEN-AGATE-STRIPED-TRANSPARENT-ONLY-9-16-SUPER-RARE-/141577364489and several others sold recently by this seller are "exotics", no? Face it. We have to be initiated into at least the 24th level before we're allowed to know these things. We're not there yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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