Steph Posted February 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Mesh bag: (click to enlarge) (source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 I might already have posted this somewhere. Not sure. Anyway, it strikes me as a nice lot for study. It was on ebay. I believe it came from a Master box. One of those with the holes you can see the mibs through. I think it said Master Marble, as opposed to Master Glass. (I'll try to get it uploaded.) (click to enlarge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 What do collectors call the style in the preceding post? Patch? Sunburst? Later Sunburst? something else? Nothing other than "Master"? (p.s. I asked in another thread. Answer is sunbursts.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Here's one which is sorta of interesting. I don't know whose picture this is. At first I thought the packaging was an error. I thought perhaps Cloudys were put in a Meteor box. However, Master advertised Meteors as translucent marbles. They said Meteors included "Green Moss Agates". The packaging is looking better and better. (click to enlarge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Looking at some of the early posts in this thread, I see some broken links and/or missing pictures. I don't know how well I will be able to straighten them all out. In the meantime, here is the specific photo I was looking for while reading those posts - a box of Master brand Uniques posted by Ron (Ron from Georgia). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Not seeing a Tiger Eye here yet in this thread, and so, here is one! I really think that MM gets a bum rap! Sure, a bunch of the patches are like a pest species of bug in some jars...but there are loads and loads of interesting MM out there...you just gotta look for them. John (Edit: cleaned up a bit of language). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 I think this is a Tiger Eye with horsehair. Does this sound right? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Never heard of horsehair in a tiger eye description? ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Never heard of horsehair in a tiger eye description? ?? I hadn't either. But isn't this what this is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Horsehair is associated with very thin oxblood (or oxblood-like) lines. I have never heard it refer to anything else. Check here: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/18998-help-with-iding-this-swirl/?p=163784 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Great Masters, Ric. That post alone proves the proposition that Master is under-rated. I'm crazy about those HTF Masters, and don't care if the market doesn't care. Heck, more for us! If you can get past the common stuff, and be patient for the exotic, there is tremendous greatness in those early Masters. Those are stellar, and so too are those pix. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 You can tell they were going for machine made onion skins. Their best ones are sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 You can tell they were going for machine made onion skins. Their best ones are sweet. Another outstanding example! A really, really terrific Master! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 This one makes the grade, I would think. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 And this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 And. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 And I take this one to be too. (caveat...if I am wrong I'm wrong....Masters can be tough!) john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 And one more: A Master style that are some of my favorites forms. Simple, with a single, mostly internal opaque patch, on a transparent base. I have found only a handful of these, some quite rough. I also have this is blue (only one) and vaseline (two) and white (one example). (Edit: Spruced up the language). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Another. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 wowzer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 The marble in post #41 is especially nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 The marble in post #41 is especially nice. Thanks much Ric! Those seem scarce in my experience. Cheers! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Ric, your post, #36 has this interesting seedy (unmelted), tea based Master on the last photo that is super unusual. I really dig the anomalous forms. I am posting the variant of the same darn thing on a powder blue base. I also have a smaller example, blue with seeds but without the patch (not photographed yet). I think this, and your mib, are very very scarce in my experience. This series of three are near shooters at 0.74"! What size is yours in #36? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 This, a good example of how more interesting Masters can riff on the same class of colors, as in this polychrome red wonder. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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