MARBLEHOLICS.COM LIVE AUCTION #40
January 22, 2003 AT 5PM PACIFIC/8PM EASTERN

 

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Lot 1
Contemporary Handmade-Ray Laubs

This is a gorgeous and unusual new pattern from Ray.  This huge marble shows a wonderful marsh mallow ribbon core with an odd Guinea type pattern on the white.  Kool new pattern and signed "Laubs02"

Size 1 3/4"   Mint+ 9.8
Value $40-80 Open at 20  SOLD $20

  Lot 2
Vitro Agate Company-Catseye

A wonderful group of 5 Vitro hybrid, cage style catseyes.  Some great colors and designs.

Size  13/16" to 7/8" Nearmint+ 8.9 to Mint 9.5
Value $5-10 Open at 2  NO SALE

  Lot 3
Akro Agate Company-Double Ingot

An awesome Akro double Ingot with white in a transparent red base.  marble shows tails traveling all over this marble to give it the hand gathered look.  Great example.

Size 7/8" Nearmint+ 8.7
Value $15-30 Open at 7  NO SALE

  Lot 4
Contemporary Handmade-Davis Glass

A wonderful Citrus Blizzard from Steve with mica in the yellow bands.  Fun marble signed "Steve Davis"

Size 1 1/2"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $40-80  Open at 20  NO SALE

  Lot 5
Handmade-German Non Glass

A wonderful Jasper (Lined Crockery) with blue and green on a white porcelain surface.

Size 13/16" Mint 9.4
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $15

  Lot 6
Peltier Glass Company-Swirl

A great looking Multi-color swirl with powder blue, yellow and white on a transparent green base.  Awesome pattern.

Size 21/32" Nearmint+ 8.7
Value $10-20  Open at 5  NO SALE

 Lot 7
Contemporary Handmade-Phil McGlothlin

A kool looking lavender slag pattern from MAC with lutz.  Great pattern and pretty coloring.  Singed "Mac"

Size 7/8" Mint+ 9.9
Value $15-30   Open at 7  SOLD $7

Lot 8
Christensen Agate Company-Swirl

An awesome and tiny CA swirl with yellow on a black base.  Marble shows a great pattern and also a few as made blow holes.  Tiny marble at 1/64 of an inch over 1/2"

Size33/64"  Mint- 9.0
Value $25-50 Open at 12  SOLD $12

  Lot 9
Champion Agate-Furnace

An awesome and hard to find Furnace marble in deep transparent red glass.  Awesome pattern and great coloring.  Very difficult to find in red base glass and not one fracture to be found.

Size 5/8"   Mint- 9.1
Value $40-80  Open at 20  SOLD $52

  Lot 10
Akro Agate Company-Corkscrew

A hard to find color combo for corkscrews.  Gorgeous black cork on a teal blue base.  Stunning color contrast in a marble showing some overall small ticks and pinpricks.

Size for 5/8" Nearmint 8.4
Value $30-60 Open at 15  SOLD $27

  Lot 11
Handmade-German Swirl

A gorgeous single ribbon core swirl with the ribbon being made up of transparent blue outlined in white.  Marble shows yellow outer strands.  Views much better than grade with a few small moons.

Size 7/8" Nearmint- 8.3
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $22

  Lot 12
Contemporary Handmade-George Pavliscak

One of my favorites from this artist.  A wonderful "Monster Eye" from George with an awesome pattern.  Signed "Gmp2"

Size 7/8"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $40-80  Open at 20  SOLD $20

  Lot 13
Peltier Glass Company-NLR

An awesome pattern on this Peltier Wasp with a broken corkscrew pattern and loads of aventurine.  Deep red coloring and tons of aventurine really set this marble off despite the overall surface wear.  Marble shows a less than wet surface covered in pinpricks and tiny ticks.

Size 21/32"  Good+ 7.9
Value $20-40  Open at 10  SOLD $10

  Lot 14
Contemporary Handmade-Fritz Lauenstein

An amazing air entrapment from Fritz.  Gorgeous ribbon swirl entrapment with the center changing colors at different angles and different light.  Simply a stunning marble signed "Fritz02"

Size 1 1/2"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $60-120  Open at 30  SOLD $53

  Lot 15
Christensen Agate Company-Striped Transparent

Deep, deep red transparent base on this gorgeous striped transparent.  Small pinpricks and overall ticks give this marble an orange peel effect, but is still an awesome marble.

Size 11/16"  Good+ 7.9
Value $25-50  Open at 12  SOLD $12

  Lot 16
Marble King, Inc.-Hybrid

A wonderful and sought after blended Dragonfly from MK.  Non-blended versions of this marble have been sold for up to $1200 and I personally think the blends are much prettier than the P&R version.  Wonderful marble.

Size 9/16"  Mint- 9.0
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $33

  Lot 17
Contemporary Handmade-Eddie Seese

A monster lutz ribbon core swirl from Eddie with a nice lutz core and bright colorful outer bands.  Signed "FES02"

Size 1 15/16"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $60-120 Open at 30  NO SALE

  Lot 18
Akro Agate Company-Corkscrew

This is a wonderful cork with stunning colors.  marble shows red, orange, underlying white and green.  Possibly more.  A gorgeous marble that views better than the grade.

Size 5/8"  Nearmint- 8.3
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $15

  Lot 19
Handmade-English Swirl

A gorgeous English solid core swirl with bright colors and a great pattern.  Shows a very bright blue and yellow core with red and white alternating sub-surface bands.  Another that views better than the grade.

Size 7/8"  Nearmint- 8.3
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $37

  Lot 20
Peltier Glass Company-Rainbo

WOW!!!  These babies are tiny.  A wonderful pair of two tiny, tiny Peltier Rainbos.  Talk about a peewee.....

Size 3/8"  Mint- 9.0 to 9.9
Value $20-40 Open at 10  SOLD $12

  Lot 21
Contemporary Handmade-Jody Fine

And awesome ribbon swirl from Jody.  Unusual pattern and also in a HUGE size for this artist.  Marble is unsigned.

Size 1 11/16"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $40-80  Open at 20  NO SALE

  Lot 22
Misc.-Catseye

Very unusual white cross though catseye.  Vanes get bled out in some areas and have very unusual shapes.  Other colors cross through as well, but in a style that does not look to have been on purpose.

Size 9/16"  Mint 9.5
Value $10-20  Open at 3  SOLD $3

  Lot 23
Akro Agate Company-Corkscrew

A stunning corkscrew with yellow, brown and red on an awesome orange base.  marble at first glance looked to have a fine thread of oxblood in it, but I don't think it is oxblood.  A stunning marble no matter what the colors.

Size 19/32"  Nearmint+ 8.9
Value $30-60 Open at 15  SOLD $25

  Lot 24
Marble Related-Postcard

This is a wonderful, wonderful piece.  A post card of two boys playing marbles.  There is a short note down the left side and on the back is the original postmark of June 6, 1907.  Item was mailed from Rushville, Nebraska and still shows the 1 cent Franklin stamp.  A wonderful piece of history.

Size "  Nearmint
Value $40-80  Open at 20  SOLD $60

  Lot 25
Contemporary Handmade-David Salazar

A gorgeous multi-layer swirl from David with an awesome internal swirl pattern and great, great coloring.  Awesome marble is signed "DPSalazar02"

Size 1 11/16"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $50-100 Open at 25  NO SALE

BREAK TIME= FIVE MINUTE BREAK 

  Lot 26
MFC-Slag

At first glance, I thought this was a transitional.  Then I got to looking and it is actually an MFC slag with so much white that it simply fills up the transparent, electric red base.  Awesome "9" and tail and a stunning pattern.

Size 9/16"  Nearmint+ 8.9
Value $20-40 Open at 10  SOLD $23

  Lot 27
Contemporary Handmade-Fritz Lauenstein

A wonderful multi color swirl with bright colors and a simply awesome pattern.  This gorgeous marble is signed "Fritz02"

Size 1 9/16"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $50-100  Open at 25  SOLD $25

  Lot 28
Peltier Glass Company-NLR

A wonderful broken corkscrew pattern on this Superboy marble.  marble shows wonderful bands, creating a corkscrew, of red and yellow blending to orange to create this wonderful marble.

Size 5/8"  Nearmint 8.4
Value $25-50 Open at 12  SOLD $14

  Lot 29
Champion Agate-Furnace

A gorgeous Furnace with wonderful coloring and pattern, not to mention another great find with no fractures.

Size 5/8"  Mint+ 9.7
Value $30-60 Open at 15  SOLD $17

  Lot 30
Contemporary Handmade-Bob Powers

A gorgeous dicroic Patriot from Docbead.  Beautiful marble shows dicroic white and red on a stunning transparent blue base.  Very nice and is signed "BP00"

Size 1"  Mint+ 9.8
Value $40-80  Open at 20  SOLD $20

  Lot 31
Akro Agate Company-Oxblood

An awesome blue oxblood corkscrew shooter.  Nice feathering at the poles and a great pattern on this wonderful corkscrew in a great size.

Size 3/4"  Nearmint 8.6
Value $80-160 Open at 40  SOLD $60

  Lot 32
Handmade-German Swirl

This gorgeous solid core swirl shows one tiny tick on an otherwise flawless item.  Wonderful colors and a fun size.

Size 9/16"  Nearmint++++++ 8.9
Value $20-40  Open at 10  SOLD $15

  Lot 33
Akro Agate Company-Corkscrew

A monster of a corkscrew in this large and very nice Ace shooter.  Translucent white base with a wonderful green corkscrew.

Size 1"  Mint- 9.0
Value $20-40  Open at 10  SOLD $30

  Lot 34
Contemporary Handmade-Davis Glass

One of my favorite marble from Davis Glass.  There now famous Peacock swirl.  Marble shows the traditional Peacock pattern in red, white and green.  Wonderful piece signed "Steve Davis"

Size 1 1/2"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $50-100  Open at 25  SOLD $25

  Lot 35
Misc.-Slags

An awesome set of four slags from different companies.  Very nice patterns.

Size 3/4" to 13/16"  Nearmint+ 8.9 to 9.5
Value $20-40 Open at 10   SOLD $18

  Lot 36
Akro Agate Company-Corkscrew

We auctioned the brother to this marble a couple of weeks ago.  A stunning three color cork with red, orangish yellow and off white in a double twist pattern.  Simply a gorgeous, gorgeous corkscrew.

Size 11/16"  Mint- 9.3
Value $40-80 Open at 20  SOLD $33

  Lot 37
Contemporary Handmade-Phil McGlothlin

A wild little swirl from MAC with great coloring, a small amounts of lutz and a very busy pattern.  Marble is signed "Mac"

Size 3/4"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $15-30  Open at 7  SOLD $7

  Lot 38
Handmade-English Swirl

A gorgeous English coreless swirl with bright colors and in great shape.  Top pontil is larger than usual, but displays awesome.

Size 11/16"  Mint- 9.2
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $15

  Lot 39
Contemporary Handmade-Ray Laubs

A wonderful set of Ray's tiny airplane sulphides.  Hard to believe a sulphide could be made in this size.  And believe it or not, he does them even smaller.  There are four available.  You are bidding on one.

Size 9/16" to 11/16"  Mint+ 9.8
Value $20-40ea  Open at 10ea  SOLD $45 ALL

  Lot 40
Peltier Glass Company-Rainbo

A stunning clear Rainbo from Peltier Glass.  Marble shows red, white and blue ribbons in a crystal clear, bubble filled base.  Very hard to come by marble.

Size 9/16"  Mint 9.5
Value $30-60  Open at 15  SOLD $36

Lot 41
Christensen Agate Company-Striped Opaque

This is a stunning striped opaque with salmon, orange and grey on a green base.  Awesome pattern includes a wonderful small turkey head swirl and incredible eye appeal.  A stunning marble with one tiny, tiny tick.

Size 9/16" Nearmint++++++ 8.9
Value $60-120 Open at 30  SOLD $50

Lot 42
Contemporary Handmade-George Pavliscak

A peewee tornado swirl from George.  Amazing detail in this tiny marble with great coloring.  Gorgeous marble is signed "GP2"

Size 1/2"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $15-30  Open at 7  SOLD $9

Lot 43
MF Christensen-Brick

one of the busiest Bricks I have ever seen.  This marble is simply stunning.  This is the type of marble that gets new comers to the hobby hooked.  Shows plenty of black as well as white in the pattern with a huge "9" that is almost impossible to picture.  Incredible example.

Size 21/32"  Nearmint+++++++++++++ 8.9
Value $70-140  Open at 35  SOLD $60

Lot 44
Contemporary Handmade-Eddie Seese

A very busy tri-level ribbon core with lutz from Eddie.  Awesome pattern and coloring as well as nice lutz bands.  Great piece signed "FES02"

Size 1 15/32"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $40-80  Open at 20   NO SALE

Lot 45
Handmade-German Swirl

A set of four great pieces of German handmade cane pieces.  Largest is 2" to 3" and shows an onionskin pattern as well as a larger piece of yellow lattice cane, small divided core piece and a white lattice piece.  Very fun items.

Size  "  DUG
Value $????? Open at 1  SOLD $25

Lot 46
Akro Agate company-Corkscrew

A wonderful corkscrew in a very rare size.  marbles were all intended to be shooters.  Hard to find in this size.  A wonderful Indian Blanket corkscrew with a split pattern.  Shows two corks of yellow and one of them splits the black down the center.

Size 5/8"  Nearmint+ 8.7
Value $30-60 Open at 15  NO SALE

Lot 47
Contemporary Handmade-Jody Fine

It is very unusual to find any marbles from Jody with dicroic glass or aventurine.  This is a wonderful dicroic solid core that is not an easy marble to get from this artist.  Wonderful coloring and pattern.  Marble is unsigned.

Size 7/8"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $40-80 Open at 20  SOLD $20

Lot 48
Christensen Agate Company-Swirl

A stunning bright red, almost oxblood red swirl on a green base.  Shows a tiny turkey head swirl and awesome appeal.

Size 11/16" Mint 9.4
Value $40-80    Open at 20  SOLD $25

Lot 49
Contemporary Handmade-David Salazar

One of David's gorgeous pastel Vortex style marbles.  Wonderful colors and patterns on this unusual, yet stunning marble signed "DPS02"

Size 1 11/16"  Mint+ 9.9
Value $60-120  Open at 30  SOLD $30

Lot 50
Akro Agate Company-Popeye

My favorite of all times.  A stunning red, white and cobalt blue Popeye.  Deep clear with loads of wispy white.  Simply the cream of the crop for the two color Popeye.

Size 19/32"  Mint- 9.1
Value $90-180  Open at 45  SOLD $110

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