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Is that one of the Pixie Dusts?

Melissa, please educate me on your "Snow Globe". The only Snow Globes I know about are Masters. Can I see a few more views of yours?

It's not a Kokomo, and they didn't make any conqueror-like marbles.

Keep moving forward, TJ - you'll get there. And I must say, I am really looking forward to the result of your efforts!

Couple a dandies there!

I'll go with Alley.

Well, TJ, I'd sure like to see one of those! Hint, hint . . .

I'd have it with my Vitros - a Phantom Conqueror variant, I think.

Hmmm . . . At 3/4", JABO is a possibility but it might just be a really weird Vitro that folded up and "swallowed" one of its cut-lines.

To be a double ingot that crease (or evidence of it) should go all the way around the marble. And this one looks more like a game marble to me. Flinties will have an opalescent glow when backlit and many will display "fish eyes" at the poles. I think Akro may have packaged them as Fire Opals too.

Sure is a pretty thing. It doesn't look American made to me. It may be an English Whispler but at over 1 3/4" I sort of doubt it. At that size, Vacor seems like a possibility but I have not seen one like it.

That's a nice variety of cool bags, Al. Thanks for showing them!

A few? That's the only one I have ever seen. lol Nobody has ever dug Master, as far as I know, and that probably at least partially explains the lack of errors you see.

Another one of my favorites 1 1/2" . . .

That's a beautiful red on the last one!

A 15 count Penny King bag with Champion Agate "Whirlwind" marbles in it. Best part, one of the blue on clear marbles is a nice metallic.

Who doesn't like a red slag? I'd like to have that box full!

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@stonehenge4242 That's an excellent marble!

It's not only a particular red color, it's what Peltier named some of their red slags - Cerise Agates.

Post it in the Sunday Best topic then!

I was thinking it might be from one of the contract run tank washes?

Cerises are pretty hard to find. You should show them off - I'd love to see them!

Like all marble types, there is a range in this type too. I am sure that that good Crows are a lot harder to than find than the same type of marble that doesn't show a good crow pattern. The later were probably dug by the thousands. Maybe the definition of a Crow has expanded to include any marble of the same type, it wouldn't be the first definition that has been expanded for marketing purposes. Having said that, buy what you like and call them what you will. I'll do the same. 🙂

There are a number of good sphere packing calculators on the web that you might find useful. The math is pretty hairy by hand but go for it if that's what floats your boat. 🙂