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I agree the buttery one on the right is pretty cool looking. It looks like it might fluoresce. Have you put it under a blacklight? Lot's of transparent swirls are pretty in a simple way, and it's easy to get lost looking at them. I have a few gallons of nicer ones I've collected over the years and it's a lot of fun to go through them every once in a while.

At that moment, Steph, I was thinking more like a hammer. 🙂

It's mint or very close, Bruce. I am just not a big fan of CAC and I was hoping it might be Alley.

Akro and Master made the majority of brushed patches you'll see. In my experience, Masters usually have a pretty "pointy" (or tighter U) type seam on one pole than Akros and they may have more going on inside of the marble. In addition, you can often feel the seam on Masters with your fingernail, which is a less common on Akros. The ones you are showing here look like Master Marbles to me.

This is a good looking group, Bill. A lot of Akro's patches are underrated IMO.

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?

Rats, I didn't think CACs bled and thinned out like that. I may have to see what it looks like on the inside.

Maybe a bit of bifurcation?

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. 🙂

It's been unsettled for quite a while.

A little early but . . .

Metallic Bruiser:

What do you think?

Just a couple of purty patches: I just can't pass up that raspberry color on a Vitro.

These are the Cairos from Everett Grist's Big Book of Marbles (3rd ed., 2006) Plate #209, p. 97.

Some of that dirty Vitrolite in a Jackson:

Cool snakeskin - it's a first for me. Some crazy Conquerors:

Nice gold-colored AV on that one! Santa Clause?

Nothing weird about it - that's a dandy Rainbo!

My strongest thought is transitional, Steph, I would just like to see both poles of the marble before I go all in.

That sort of black is not common on these Vitros, which is why they may have tried to clean it up.

It's an oddball, but it doesn't strike me as a messed-up corkscrew - it sort of looks like a transitional but . . .?

I think you are right, Chad.

Tommy, I think this is an unpolished example of that middle Vitro.

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.