Ric
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A recent 3/4" find . . .
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Akro fleshy base colors help me understand
Ric replied to davesnothere's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
The only Akro "Opal" I can think of is a Fire Opal and this isn't one of them. Akro Corkscrews on an off white UV reactive base are not too uncommon. And I think what you have there would be called "lazy corkscrews" as opposed to patches. But more views might alter my thinking on that. -
I'm leaning Vitro over Akro.
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I'm getting Peltier vibes.
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I agree that it's some type of a German handmade. It just looks like the pontils have been obliterated.
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Cairo is my first thought - I think they did make a few big ones.
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Not a Pistachio, but I think it's probably still an Alley, just a little unusual.
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It does look foreign. Vacor seems like a good possibility to me.
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Here is the October 2008 Tric Trac article about the Billes & Traditions Company translated from the link I posted earlier . . .
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Looks like a Rainbo to me.
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Fun bunch of marbles, but there's an Akro contaminating your swirls!
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The marbles shown in the article remind me a little of the Svenska Stenkulors but they appear have a final glaze or treatment of some sort. Yours don't look quite as glossy.
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Here's another with a little metal . . .
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Nice marble - gotta love that batch mix white!
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Very cool, Fire! Here's an interesting little article about them. You may need to translate from french. Apparently the company opened in 1998. https://forum.trictrac.net/t/article-billes-traditions-la-vraie-bille-en-terre/195137
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Newer All Red variants, iMO - they can get kind of crazy at that size.
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Nice colors on some of those. The pattern on the last one is really nice.
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@Tommy Yup, those are pretty 'bos!
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You may be right about a double ingot, but there is usually still some sign of the interface between the two ingots, even if it is all smoothed out. And I'll have to get into the archives and see what I can find - is a row 5 marbles or 6? 🙂
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I get the feeling that your photo is a little bright so it's hard to tell from these pics. But it does have that "mottled" look that you often see on oxblood so . . . ?
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Pretty sure that's one of those Horizontal Lathe Swirls - sorta like a Navarre, but wood.
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Those are pretty marbles - it doesn't take much to go from swirls to two seams or vice versa.
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Dang, look at the pontil on that marble!
