Ric
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This is a good looking group, Bill. A lot of Akro's patches are underrated IMO.
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That's what I was thinking too, but what in the world would you call it? One side looks more like a MCS and the other looks like more like a Rainbo. NLR?
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Rats, I didn't think CACs bled and thinned out like that. I may have to see what it looks like on the inside.
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Maybe a bit of bifurcation?
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The colors sort of bleed to brown and thin out in spots, which seems a little odd for CAC, and I have seen that "fireplace flame" coming out of a pouty seam on quite a few Alleys, and the inverse flames coming together on the backside too - I can only hope, I guess. 🙂
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It's been unsettled for quite a while.
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A little early but . . .
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Metallic Bruiser:
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What do you think?
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Just a couple of purty patches: I just can't pass up that raspberry color on a Vitro.
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These are the Cairos from Everett Grist's Big Book of Marbles (3rd ed., 2006) Plate #209, p. 97.
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Some of that dirty Vitrolite in a Jackson:
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Cool snakeskin - it's a first for me. Some crazy Conquerors:
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Nice gold-colored AV on that one! Santa Clause?
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Nothing weird about it - that's a dandy Rainbo!
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My strongest thought is transitional, Steph, I would just like to see both poles of the marble before I go all in.
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That sort of black is not common on these Vitros, which is why they may have tried to clean it up.
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It's an oddball, but it doesn't strike me as a messed-up corkscrew - it sort of looks like a transitional but . . .?
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I think you are right, Chad.
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Tommy, I think this is an unpolished example of that middle Vitro.
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Speaking of facets . . . years ago, I got lucky and found this original. View of town Oberstein, bridge and Crag Church, and view of the agate and jasper gemstone polishing mill. Hand-colored steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History, Paris, 1834.
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It's a good thread Mibber, but if you're gonna bump a six-year old post with no comment, you should at least show us a marble. ☺️
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I think one of the best ways to pretty easily distinguish a hand-ground one is to but a bright light on it and rotate it slowly. If the point of light sort of flickers or appears to jump around a bit, it's probably because of the facets on the hand-made ones. Machine-ground made ones will not show the same. I don't usually need magnification to see this effect.
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I agree. 🙂 The second looks Jabo-ish to me.
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I agree, except maybe on #1 - I think it might be an odd swirl or even a Vacor. And if #4 is not Alley, I'd say it's a red slag with way too much white in it.
