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Nope. No. But don't get bitten by anything. And get all your shots. You know, like injection-type shots!

None. Nada. Zip. I never said I was nice.

Re the blue and white latticinio . . . I think it may instead be a version of what Baumann (and therefore I) call "candy-striped solid core." They're usually constructed like latticinios with fatter threads touching each other. Occasionally there's a tiny gap or two. The usual candy-stripe core colors are (1) red and white and (2) blue and white. I've actually found more blue and white than red and white. Every now and then an odd one shows up (purple & white, green & white). Although they're usually caged, It's not particularly unusual to find them "naked." This kinda looks like it was going there -- That was one of the first handmade types I got interested in --

I do too. Just, you know, in case.

Wow . . .

No sympathy. None.

I didn't make that connection back to the box on the previous page. I was just speculating about the ad itself (post 74), without reference to the unplayed-with box. . .

I think there's further confusion now that there are several pontil definitions . . . like the short straight line being called a pinch pontil by one person (as above) and a line pontil by another -- who also calls the messy, spidery "Japanese" cutoff a pinch pontil. Have to admit the latter usages sound more reasonable to me. So I try not to call them anything unless I'm talking to myself.

I think it's entirely possible. Possibly even likely.

I like the gutta percha.

She's on her way. Mailed today.

I'm seriously distracted by the idea of a baked potato with butter, chili, sour cream, shredded cheddar, bacon . . . and onions. I have to leave now.

Good point -- we may be making too much of the ad writer's marble knowledge / information. The words "cerise" and "prima," which are specific marble types we associate only with Peltier, could have been used in the ad in a more generic way -- probably without anyone complaining. Maybe Belkap Hardware was just using current "buzzwords," or trying to capitalize on the cerise and prima names? No mention of Peltier or Gropper. And I don't believe I'd characterize cerises as glass agates having "beautiful dark color combinations." And heck, the person who prepared the drawings and the person who prepared the copy were almost never the same people -- and of the two, the drawer may have been the only one with actual marbles to go by. If even he did. Most of the marble depictions in ads of this age look an awful lot alike.

You only need one, right? RIGHT?? I only need one. Just one. Really. Just one. I swear.

Oh dear, I sure could use that . . .

OK. I fondled it last night and decided it might have more fun as a part of your box. I'll send it to you and you can decide if it works. PM me your mailing address . . .

And, in a whispered aside - - - Fiedler left Akro when Henry Helmers was hired as glass chemist there . . . hmmm. Just sayin.'

I agree.

I have one with the deep transparent brown. But I like it. I hate delimmas . . .

I agree too . . .

As far as cullet goes, I think it relates directly to how much or how little digging has been done factory sites . . .

Thanks, Hansel. A few of mine (all with the orangy hue, as you said) don't have a seam or cut line I can find either -- but most do. At least the kind of seam or cut line that machine-made (feathered) Pelt slags have (which is to say sometimes submerged, sometimes very subtle). Are some very "light in the white," as I think of it? A couple of mine have very little . . .

I am so glad to hear you say that. I haven't had the nerve.

The closest I can come to white are a couple of very pale vaseline slags . . . and you're right, the feathering is more evident when they're backlit too. You can see it in the glass more prominantly than you can see it in the white. If you know what I mean. I think white ones are probably out there, but just not recognizable as Peltier.

Nearly all of the Cerise Agates in my box have a visible (but not feel-able) seam. Another Cerise-box-owner has confirmed to me that his do too. You must have at least one box, Hansel . . . do many of your Cerises have a seam? I don't have any Cardinal Reds, and like Mike have only seen them in pics, so I can't offer any meaningful comparison there. Unless someone sends me some Cardinal Reds to look at, of course. It could happen.