Cac Pastels

[BuckEye]

Hi,

I know there is a picture of these some where on here, and I have looked at it, but it is hard to tell if they have cut marks like striped opaques do, or are they transluscent? Can someone shed some light on this for me pretty please. I think i have a few, but am unsure of their exact characteristics. Also any very close up shots of the box and or each color separately would be amazingly helpful!

thanks so much in advance fellow marble wizards

Craig

[Steph]

Hi Craig.

Here's mine which I posted once for ID. It's opaque with transparent rivulets. It has a single seam. It went from being not a CAC to being a good candidate. I've matched the blue with known CACs in hand so I feel pretty good about it.

More views:

(click on link for larger version)

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/CAC/PaleBlueSingleSeam_B.jpg

I think the LOM page which featured Ken's box is gone. The old link doesn't work.

What I THINK I remember reading about his is that the box contained three types: some handgathered, some single seam, some two seam.

[Kokoken]

Hi Craig.

Here's mine which I posted once for ID. It's opaque with transparent rivulets. It has a single seam. It went from being not a CAC to being a good candidate. I've matched the blue with known CACs in hand so I feel pretty good about it.

I think the LOM page which featured Ken's box is gone. The old link doesn't work.

What I THINK I remember reading about his is that the box contained three types: some handgathered, some single seam, some two seam.

My box is at the bank but here's a pic of my extras. They are opaque. The shades of each color vary all over the place. Some have all kinds of character others have no personality at all

[BuckEye]

thanks guys!

I have one exactly the same as modularforms with two seams, I will try and post it later today. thanks Ken, that is very helpful as well! How rare are these things?

Craig

[bigjohn691500]

Heres the candidates i have, they all came in together, except the purples, they just looked cool,,,bj

[Al Oregon]

Here's the picture of Pete's CA Pastels box from years ago - best picture I have.

[Steph]

Hey! I finally figured out how to use the Wayback Machine at Archive.org!

Check it out!

Pete's pastel page

edit:

That was further back than I knew. Here's the version I remember, the one which mentions the different types - single seam, double seam or handgather:

later version

[Kokoken]

Above is Pete's picture before he sold the box to me.

[VTAndrea]

I'll ask the question others probably have too: how on earth do you tell a CAC pastel from ordinary solid-colored marbles? I know some game marbles have seams, so.....???? Is it by color?

[Al Oregon]

Had not heard of the Wayback Machine - now to figure out how to use it.

[BuckEye]

Here is mine with turkey, seams and tunnels. It has "spots" of a semi transluscent blue base

I think this qualifies, any thoughts?

Craig

[Steph]

I like. :-)

Looks like your ribbons might be blue like mine, and maybe faded a bit the same way mine did in the photos. Mine photographed as close to clear but they're blue and a little darker than the rest of the mib. Just a little detail, but still interesting to me

[BuckEye]

Steph, I think ours might be a form of blue on blue striped opaque which is rare, BUT .....they really resemble the ones Kokoken had in his leftover box (which were stunning) so I am considering mine a pastel

cc

[Steph]

Me too.

Another of Pete's pix (of Ken's mibs), (coz it's got such nice detail)

[I'llhavethat1]

A lot of those look tough to keep away from from some "game marbles" if it weren't for original packaging.

[Steph]

Indeed.

For the record, Pete made an interesting update to how the pastels came to be known as that:

Oh, and there was no name on the box. "Pastel Opaques" came from Bob. I think he used it to refer to them in a descriptive way; "You've got to see Pete's box of pastel opaques..." that's what they were - Opaques, but decidedly pastel in color, as compared to what one typically runs into. I guess the name stuck.

I'd assumed it was a company name. I don't think I was alone. Always neat to discover the origin of a name. (And thanks to Pete for setting the record straight before the details were lost in oblivion!)

[BuckEye]

Thanks for all the info everyone

c