Ric

Hey Steve . . . missed your birthday . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope ya had a great one! :happy-857:

It was my understanding that Champion purposefully filled the Bicentennial Bags with marbles from several WV companies, and I think Heaton and MK cats are not uncommon in those bags. I also thought that Champion never manufactured cat's eyes. Are the ones you dug there distinctly different from other manufacturer's cat's eyes or could they just be remnants of those Champion obtained from other companies?

Nice, Griff. Those grotesque drizzly ones are awesome!

Nice marble, Dani. The colors I see look pretty close to me. Although, I would expect to see a lighter brown color swirled into the base too. Is there any on the other side?

Nice flame Doc!

I think Jan 7-9.

Sweet marbles, Greg - I'm lovin' the Chrissie's in that first pic! And I got THE ORIGINAL Griff Triangle Case. Maybe not quite as purdy as some of his newer ones but it's mighty special to me . . . a keeper for sure! THANKS GRIFF!

Thanks Paula, That's my take too . . . so maybe I'm not completely crazy.

Wow . . . kinda cool Gregg - real-time reporting from MNN . . . The Marble News Network. I guess that sorta makes you the Anchor Man. LOL. Thanks - I'm looking forward to seeing y'all Friday afternoon.

Thanks again, Rick, it's not really brown, looks a bit more like a blackish contaminant, and there's a fine streak of yellow slightly separated from the main patch there too, where the base glass shows through a bit, which adds to that appearance . . . I think. And thanks to you too, Jim. I agree that the Victory base should be bubble-free. And I had always thought Pelt made this type - I don't think I've ever seen similar attributed to Kokomo, but it wouldn't surprise me too much, and I am in Indiana so . . .?

Frankly, I find the level of sexist rhetoric in this thread reprehensible . . . I mean, hey . . . Cub Scouts did arts and crafts too! LOL.

Hey Rick, Oddly enough, none of mine glow. But maybe I'm biasing the result, since I have the free-form patches with real bubbly bases in with my Pelts - thinking that the base on Victories is bubble-free. Do your Victories have bubbly bases like the ones I show? Am I sorting these correctly? Thanks.

Thanks Steph, I think these are all Pelt too . . . but that pic in P.A.M. has me scratching my head . . . have you seen it? I always thought similar Vitros (Victories) had a bubble-free base. And the base on the two glowers does indeed have a light green tint. I also have others that don't glow, and the base is not tinted on those. -Ric

Can anyone tell me how common it is for this type to glow? Thanks.

Nice, Griff - great find!

That's what I was thinking too - but need pics, for sure.

For sure . . . it's amazing what a little soap and warm water will do.

I can't say that I have . . . but I hope you haven't lost it - it looks like a nice one to me!

Does anyone have any thoughts on the yellow patch on bubbly clear (Vitro?) shown at the top of page 174 in Popular American Marbles? I always thought this was a Peltier until I noticed that pic - now I'm wondering . . .

Man, I love Vitro colors with lots of transparent glass . . .

Too sweet, Craig! I especially like the yellow and teal CAs. WOW!

Hey Bill . . . I'll sure let you see it - maybe even hold it - depending on my mood . . . and swimming in the river is what I was hoping to hear . . . I just hope you're not in your living room while you're doing it. Take good care, I'll be talking to you soon.

Here's a neat little swirl. It's pretty cool the way the structure of the three-color ribbon is maintained as it dives down into the base and snakes around inside . . .

It really is cool, Dani. I see all kinds of things on/in it with a loop - certainly some filaments that look like oxblood, but I don't really think it is - certainly an enigmatic little marble . . .