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Not so much caged style as weird sunburst-y kinds of things with structures all over the place and really poor quality control.
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I figured . . . 🙂
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The marbles are thought to be Peltier since the origin on Gropper boxes is Ottawa, IL. Photos are from an auction Steph posted in 2007: The forum's search function is a wonderful thing. 🙂
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Bottom line . . . in the case of the OP marble, onyx = slag and vice versa. I just didn't want the Steven to get the idea that his marble was not a slag.
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To be clear, "Onyx" was Akro's brand name for their slags.
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I understand your thinking but it's pretty esoteric for cheap kid's toys. It's probably better to think about base glass and striping glass rather than opaque and transparent glass. Slags and transparent swirls have transparent base glass and opaque striping glass, regardless of their proportions. And nice (recent) slag too. Does it react to UV?
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Left could be Vacor the right ones look more foreign to me also.
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Is the base glass translucent?
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They all look foreign (more Euro than Asian) to me. I don't think the right one would qualify as a "Pincer" (don't think I've heard of a "pincher"). It looks a bit more like a "sparkler" type, IMO.
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Yes, more Vitro Hybrids - some of my favorites.
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The outer bubbly ones might be Master, otherwise foreign. The center one looks mostly like a Vitro to me.
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I think Bill had a couple of these kind of Pelts too.
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It looks like a foreign Cat's Eye to me too, although I can sorta see why you might have initially thought Pelt - that seam in the last pic is a little deceiving.
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Just a few more . . .
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You've got that right! Honestly, I kinda gave up on Pelts long ago . . . I like 'em from WV, and the swirlier the better! 😃
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What!!?? You mean there's more than one Muddy? lol
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Creased "pontils" on Japanese marbles made by Nippon Special Glass Ball Mfg Co . . .
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Here's a Japanese pinch "pontil" transitional made by Yasuda . . . The marble is just shy of 11/16" and the "pontil" is about 1/8".
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There are some good pics of various pontils here . . .
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@Carowill Okay, I think I figured it out, the Golden Zebra is the orange on white and the Golden Dragon is the orange on yellow - just had to think on it for a bit. lol
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It looks like it came off in this area . . . Do you see a short straight (maybe palpable) line anywhere in there?
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Which marble and which name, Bill? Yeah, I'm that clueless.
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I'm thinking it's around 35% of where its headed.
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Me too! I definitely thought about the possibility but didn't recall our recent conversation with Jeff about the Pelty-looking newer MKs - live and learn.
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Pelts aren't exactly my cup of tea but they sure are great marbles, Art. I think there may be another variation of the pearlized patch color too but I could easily be wrong about that. Do you know anything about that?
