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"Yoshi's Honor" Size: 1.92" Price: SOLD

This is one of THE MOST RARE Gong marbles you will ever come across. This crazy jewel was made back in December 2009 (singed 12.09) after Yoshinori Kondo burst on to the scene. Like so many artists and collectors at the time, Mike was intrigued by the layered dot stacking that Yoshi pulled off, and so he took a stab at it with a small group of marbles. I call it Mike's 'Yoshi Phase', heh heh. What Mike achieved actually looks quite different than what Yoshi does, but it still has the multiple layers of dot stacking with clear glass in between, giving us an AWESOME effect in the marble. Mike used super fun colors in this one, and the design also incorporates a nulti-vortex type effect as well. VERY hard to capture well in 2D images, as it is awesome to explore in hand! The backside also features some dichro tucked underneath the color - that's what sort of looks like fuzz in the pictures, but is more sparkly in hand. Hard one to let go of, as this one is SO fun and SOOOO special.

The camera really brought out the blues in those bluish-purple dots, but in hand, they look more purple and not as bright as these pictures show.
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