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Master cats can be really great marbles. I am partial to the single "potato chip" vane variety, and I've been trying to assemble a good set of them for years. They're tough to find, at least in my experience. And yes, those are the style bag I was talking about.

These particular Ravenswoods glow like nuts!

And I'm sorry I got off on a tangent and sort of gummed up the works.

Art, if this came from one of those bags that has the header with a slot in it and the bag is heat sealed through the slot, I do think many of those were backfilled. I'll bet Al would know for sure.

Great Vitros, Dave. This one is particularly nice. Have you ever tried to figure out how many different color combos there are? I remember that, I think it was Chuck B. but might have been Mike A., made a chart to show them all. At one point, I started collecting to see if I could fill the chart but got bored with it after several years and quit. It'd be fun if someone could muster the patience.

These are so cool. I have several similar. It's almost hard to imagine they're random swirls, odds are, maybe a few out of millions.

If the edges are smooth, I'd be thinking more like hot bubble pops. I can't really imagine anyone polishing such a marble at the factory or anywhere else.

An odd Vitro Whitie is my bet.

Transparent WV Swirls are notoriously difficult to ID, especially one like this, that appears like it could have been made by a number of different companies.

The song "Jesus loves the little children" just popped into my head. There's the tune, you can put the words to it. lol.

Haha, Yeah, having one marble with two different names is bad enough. But having two different marbles with the same is another thing altogether, unless the two can be distinguished using a company name, like Akro, Alley, or Peltier Superman, for instance - I can live with that.

Yeah, but at least they're not calling Rebels, Mustard & Relishes now too. lol.

I don't know a lot about German hand-mades, but even I know that marble is outstanding!

IMO, if folks want to name marbles, that's fine - it facilitates discussion. But I don't like it when the definition associated with a name changes. It's like I just figure out what a dog is and realize a few years later that cats are now called dogs too.

Not a Confederate, Bruce. It needs a gray base with orange/red and white ribbons.

Nice marble - looks familiar . . .

These are some of my favorites. I probably should have cleaned them up a little. 🙂

Nice Alleys, Gladys!

I've always thought this was a good marble . . .

Nice marbles, Dave. Great blue on the second one!

This is a nice uncommon Master, William!

Nice mibs, Chad. I think sometimes marbles from every manufacturer hit or got hung up on the the rolls just right and wound up with a bit of extra "spin" to them. They are random swirls, which means there are marbles on both ends of the spectrum with regards to swirly-ness, coverage, etc. At least this is my take on it.

The reason I ask is because if the base has to be opaque Confederates are rare and if it doesn't they're common, and I always thought Confederates were rare.

The vane looks much thinner than I would expect to see on a Banana but it might just be the photos.