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Happy slag and swirl Saturday! Here's a slaggy swirl . . . A nice transparent green base and bright white - just shy of 7/8" and glows like crazy under UV.
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It looks like a West Virginia Swirl - Alley to me.
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Do Moonies and Flinties always have fire?
Ric replied to Melissa's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
My bet is that some of the marbles Akro packaged as Flinties did not show the opalescent fire. I say this because I have a few marbles that show the "fish eye" and other traits that point to Akro and they do not glow. -
I'm pretty sure Dave meant to type Liberty Rebel - hybrid between a Liberty and a Rebel. This is a great marble no matter what it's called. To me it sort of looks like a hybrid between an Orange Rebel (orange & black) and a Liberty (red & blue). Or maybe a Liberty Rebel + orange.
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Do Moonies and Flinties always have fire?
Ric replied to Melissa's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Just in case you aren't aware, Craig S. now maintains a copy of Alan's ID guide: https://buymarbles.com/marblealanhome.html Might be easier to consult than the archive. -
I think Master left and Akro right - sorta hard to tell on the lower left one though.
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It looks like a Vitro Biscuits and Red Eye Gravy front right, two Akro Tricolors and an Akro patch.
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Yes, three nice TriLites and a Type IV Tiger eye upper right.
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Do Moonies and Flinties always have fire?
Ric replied to Melissa's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
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Do Moonies and Flinties always have fire?
Ric replied to Melissa's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
This is one of the best recent discussions about these types so I thought a link was appropriate . . . . . . lots of photos and discussion. -
Nice marble, Jeff - does the "Moonie base" show opalescence?
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They look like 1980s Champions to me.
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I'm thinking it's a Vacor but I don't know the name.
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I think the colors on your earlier photo look a lot more like what I'm used to. 👍 It's surprising how different the two photos look. . .
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Maybe it is a Japanese transitional and it just has an exceptionally clean "pontil" - they are usually pretty rough. It's a very nice marble, regardless.
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It's a cool looking marble, whatever it is. And while I certainly haven't seen them all, it doesn't look like any Akro Corkscrew I've seen before. Looks a bit more like some sort of a hand-gathered marble - reminds me a bit of a Japanese Yasuda, but I haven't seen one of those like this either. It'll be interesting to see what others say. Maybe a contemporary?
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Some very nice marbles posted today, Bill! Your Claudia looks like it has unusual colors. Does it have that nice orange peel texture you usually find on them?
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Yes, it's from a JABO investor's run - not sure which one.
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This is not Vintage, or a CAC, or a Striped Opaque, or a Diaper Fold, or a Mica Blizzard, and I doubt it has any Oxblood. It is a swirl marble though, so at least they got that part right. Sheesh. Be careful out there newbies!
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I have seen hand gathered striped opaques but it's hard to tell if this is one - looks to me like it might more likely be a very nice slag. For me, it would come down to whether there is any colored glass (besides the base color and white) in the marble.
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I've seen some remelts that Rich Shelby has done and it's pretty amazing what a good torch worker can do with a marble, but I agree it's hard to wrap your head around.
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Patches including a peewee . . . If I had Gladys' photography skills (and realized they needed a bath before I took the photo) I probably could have made them look really pretty. 🙂
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Pretty marbles and another great photo, Gladys!
