This marble is FANTASTIC in hand. For all your purple lovers out there, you'll want to jump on this one. The base is this gorgeous transparent purple glass that really is beautiful in natural lighting or when backlit especially. Then that wonderful goldstone is laid on there in what Drew called his spider design, and WOW, does it glitter like the sun! I've only seen goldstone (also called 'lutz') in marbles from two other artists, Matthews and Wald, which was this high of quality and with such magical sparkle like this. It's light years better in hand than the pictures show! It is signed with the year '2002 EXP', meaning it is a one-of-a-kind experimental marble from 2002. A very special marble!