Cairo Glow Worm

[mibby wonka]

On 2/15/2023 at 5:34 PM, Fire1981 said:

I was just curious if it truly is $50 marble. I guess if it sells for that or more then I guess that's what it's worth🔥

Anything over 5/8" is htf for Cairo. They didn't make larger marbles in this kind. Glow worms at 11/16" are vhtf

[cheese]

Marbles from Cairo (Care-oh) over 5/8" are quite common. 

The glow worm has been a named Cairo for many years. Even listed as one at the West Virginia Marble Collector's Club website. It's not a HTF marble if you dug Cairo. Might be HTF if you're just trying to find one in the wild, but Cairos of any kind aren't all that common in the wild.

[cheese]

I just happened to be going through some marble stuff and picked up up a small box of dug Cairos just now. I opened it and picked out 16 glow worms all 11/16" to 13/16" right off the bat. Who knows how many more there are. Not HTF. At least not in my collection. The one that went over $50 on ebay was not 11/16" though.

[mibby wonka]

They had only one machine that made these in 5/8" so a larger size would have likely been an error. Gw in a larger size regularly go for over 50 on auction.

 

If you have those in that size that's a good find 

On 12/3/2023 at 3:46 PM, cheese said:

I just happened to be going through some marble stuff and picked up up a small box of dug Cairos just now. I opened it and picked out 16 glow worms all 11/16" to 13/16" right off the bat. Who knows how many more there are. Not HTF. At least not in my collection. The one that went over $50 on ebay was not 11/16" though.