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5 minutes ago, Carowill said:

I thought they were extremely rare.  Surprised to see a huge grouping.

Did some research.  That photo came from a find in Europe over 15 years ago.  German handmade marbles around 1” in size.

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4 hours ago, Carowill said:

Did some research.  That photo came from a find in Europe over 15 years ago.  German handmade marbles around 1” in size.

Yes, strikes are handmade also, I guess they're still not sure exactly who made them. Never even seen one besides in pictures.

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4 hours ago, schmoozer said:

Any sales records?

I never had any strikes or seen any sold. Ron said they were $12-$1500.oo each in mint condition  a while back and he wouldn't pay that much. I really have no idea how much they were or are, a discussion we had on AAM before he passed.

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I was lucky enough to have seen 2  Strikes in hand out of Bo Stiff’s collection in 2004. One red/black and a blue one. I was pretty naive at the time. He paid $900 for the blue one and $1000 for the red/black one. It was NUTZ🔥

RAR

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13 hours ago, Carowill said:

Can't be too many of these around!  Impressive!!

Only one I've ever seen !!  Got another pelt one off for tomorrow, i wanted to post it tonight, my trigger finger is itchin up a storm

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On 11/10/2025 at 3:37 AM, Carowill said:

Did some research.  That photo came from a find in Europe over 15 years ago.  German handmade marbles around 1” in size.

Amazing find and pic. I believe there are only 36 of these known to exist (source, oldraremarbles.com maintained by Jeff & Tammy Baker) and that bowl has some color combinations I hadn’t seen before. Note the size of these rarities is actually always 1-5/8” and the pontils are odd, a slightly raised round & flat cutoff. The base glass is also moonie-like, so that the ‘strikes’ float beautifully in the white ether. Very odd for Germans to be sure, which led to rampant speculation that they were of Asian or other origin. And yes, I’m a (former) owner of one - but I’ve never owned a Blue Galaxy, you pick your poisons lol. 

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