Ric

I think we all see it as a Guinea, Rick - the point is that if only the innards of your marble were in a clear transparent base glass with no surface frit/base color to cloud them then you could easily be looking at a Cobra/Cyclone like the ones Jeff posted - I agree, and with those colors it'd probably be an outstanding marble!

Thanks for the photo and the comments, Jeff - "pretty" is the right description for those marbles!

Who knew looking at marble innards could be both fun and enlightening 🙂 - this is a great example, Rick, thanks for sharing it!

One of my better Heatons for "Sunday Best" this week . . . Horsehair and lots of AV.

That's a cool pinch pontil transitional, Melissa. I agree it looks a bit different than most of the creased pontil Japanese types I am familiar with . . .

That's a very nice gift. The hand on this header cracks me up every time I see it. 😄 I wonder what @Al Oregon knows about this bag. I have definitely seen this Keasbey and Mattison Co. bag before but I've forgotten what I knew about it. lol

Gotta love a good game marble!

Here's my addition . . .

@Dave 13 Way to start the day - the 2nd one is especially nice! @akroorka I really like the pattern on that marble - stuff like that can make a game marble special - weird is good! @Gladys Glad to see you back, I always enjoy the artistic creativity you show in your photos - great marbles too! @Joe2 That's a great marble - tough to find with base glass that color - the mottling is great!

That's a great idea!

I really like a good Vitro "V", especially what I call the "script" style" ones . . .

These Confettis are the most special Vitros I have ever seen - truly extraordinary.

I think the bottom right might be a really messed up foreign Imperial.

I think Jackson.

Welcome to the Marble Connection! By definition, slags are two color marbles that are made with white striping glass in a transparent clear or colored base glass. The variation in colors you see is due to the white being submerged under the colored base glass - the depth and thickness of the submerged white can make it look like different shades of the base color. And FWIW, I do not think your marble is a Christensen Agate - Akro seems more likely.

Unless there is damage to the charging port or the memory itself, it should be pretty straight forward to recover the photos.

There are all kinds of variables in the "UV lights" we use (e.g., the intensity of the light emitted as well as the spectrum of wavelengths emitted), which is why different UV sources can cause different types or intensities of UV reactivity in the same marble.

As long as you are happy with the marble and the price you paid, all is good. The issues arise if someone expects others to value the marble the same way they do. In other words, if you buy a typical Conqueror for $10 that is fine, just don't expect to get your money back by selling it to me. 🙂 And fluorescence (reactivity) occurs when light of a shorter invisible wavelength (UV) reacts with a fluorescent (reactive) compound and causes the compound to emit light of a longer visible wavelength - think of the bright green glow that comes from some apparently white glass when you shine UV light on it (the green light emitted by the fluorescent compound in the glass has a longer wavelength than the UV light we used to excite it). UV light that is reflected is essentially the same color as the UV source.

Might be an odd Ravenswood.

The structure is pretty messy but it look mostly foreign to me.

Only for a bit, I'm in Florida for the rest of the week and will only be around occasionally.

Sometimes you can tell by the seams, patch traits, or colors, etc. but there can be so much variation within the different color combos from each maker that sometimes all you can really do is guess. As Ron always says - some just can't be identified with any real accuracy. The red/yellow and red/blue combos are probably the most difficult. From what I see here, only the top right looks like it might be MK - the others look like later Vitro production to me.

Never seen or heard of similar marbles from West Virginia. Is it thought to be contemporary? Any other info about it?

Left looks foreign, maybe Master Glass. The others look mostly Vitro to me, but sort of hard to tell from these pics.