Marvelous Mibs Marbles Collectors Zone

wvglass · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 108 Location: West Virginia

I've been playing with photographing marbles . . . and art I've not quite perfected yet. Give me time. But I thought I'd share some dug stuff this morning . . . I have a bunch more of dug stuff, a lot of it arguably oxblood. I'll try to get some photos up of some neat ones. But for now, here are these couple of posts.

Here are a few of those hand gathered Akros that Lizzy posted about earlier:

The top row, one on right is a purple. Colors didn't come out well.

This next one is one I found last week. It's rather interesting. I don't know if the ohotos do it justice or not. There's a neat line of red in it (Ox?--probably not).

Finally, here's my birdy grading them. He really loves marbles too! Very Happy

wvglass · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 108 Location: West Virginia

Here are the three most killer marbles I've dug in the last year. The blue ox has a chip on it, though I didn't get it in the photo. I also dug a couple eggyolks, but gave them away.

And here are four really cool swirl marbles (?) that were dug.

wvglass · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 108 Location: West Virginia

This isn't a marble, but it is something I found digging. It's not anything really, I don't think, but the colors and texture of kill me!

Notice the purple at the bottom . . . nice . . . Cool

tankgrrl29 · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

i'm a little behind in this thread...just catching up. lot's of cool marbles here!

william, i really like the action in this one you posted:

Ponkochan · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:07 am Post subject:

More dug Akros that could be mistaken for Vitro.

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wvglass · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 108 Location: West Virginia

Yup, I've seen 'em like that. Do we have a dug maarble discussion thread? This would work, I suppose. I think a discussion of dug marbles would be grand! There are some beauties out there--rare ones too. I have a few of them. But it seems that, in a lot of cases, if it isn't a "named" Akro people don't want it. Anyway . . .

roany poany · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:10 am Post subject:

Ponkochan · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject:

Here is a 'dug' hand-gathered Akro. (not an Akro Cornelian/Brick) It looks almost opaque, but there are areas of translucency in it. I took some pics of it next to some transparent red slags.

These pictures were taken under various lighting conditions.

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Ponkochan · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

Here's one that might be mistaken for Vitro. Wink

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roany poany · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject:

Lizzy, luv that handgathered
that last one would fool a lot of born-from-the-womb-gurus doleing out marble IDs

here's a dug double ingot Akro I got from marbles*galore (an AKRO digger who sold on ebay) about 7 years ago

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