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Or a cross between an Akro oxblood lemonade and the Hubble telescope . . .

The one with the green kelp-like blades is the Ferguson. Love his stuff. Have a handful.

Not sure. Might have to just be "WV Swirl."

In your first ones, I would eliminate CAC just on the glass alone, regardless of swirl shapes -- too much blending of colors. There are usually pretty sharp divisions of colors in CAC marbles -- like those shown in Galen's examples.

Nice ones!

Then you're good to go for a while - - -

There's a hard-to-find type of solid core marble that is constructed with lobes (usually three) as well -- but they're hard to distinguish unless you view them from their top "poles."

Me too. Bauman essentially says "Single ribbon core," "double ribbon core," and three and more ribbons = divided core. Naked = no outer bands, regardless of what's happening in the center. Not confined to ribbons . . . "Naked core" could be anything -- just means that whatever the core is (latticinio, ribbon, solid, divided, etc.) it has no outer bands.

I have three, thanks to poplarhead! Thanks for letting go of them awhile ago, Don -- they still make me smile when I see them!

I have a few, and mine are all machine-made.

Onionskin. With the exception of some of the antique German mibs, which are classified as having a certain kind of core (solid core, latticinio core, ribbon core, divided core, etc), most mibs are classified by what they look like on their surfaces. Like this one being an "onionskin" (you can't always see the interior of an onionskin -- the "skin" is super thin and applied over an ordinary clear glass -- and we wern't really meant to see into it). A coreless swirl, basically, has the kind of outer decorative bands that the "cored" swirls do (latticinio, ribbon, etc.), but with nothing in the center. Hence "coreless." It's a term usually applied just to that kind of old German swirl.

Beginning or ending of cane -- pretty neat.

I'm all over the two single ribbons . . . Ow, and that caged, super-twisted red core one at the middle top . . .

Yep.

All are nice-looking mibs, but to my eyes, they don't have the usual construction or colors (at least 5) of Akro sparklers. I'm with them ^^up there^^ who're going with Master . . .

I agree. Look at the pattern. And very, very pretty.

I've had the misfortune twice. Skeered the hookey out of me, and I grew up in a place known at the time as "Hurricane Alley." Included three Cat 4s. But man, when the earth's moving, there just ain't nowhere to go . . .

OK I don't wanna see 'em. Might have when I was younger . . .

Not this Ann. But I wouldn't mind having some of the transparent ones. They're lovely. But out of my league, $$$-wise.

Art Jones has a nice one too. I think Ron Shepherd does also.

I've bought from him, but I haven't seen anything from him on ebay lately -- sorry to say. He usually had interesting stuff, quite a bit dug --

I'd like a copy too -- I also have the crazy "ball" but no instructions . . . future cloudy

Pelt made peewee slags -- HTF, though (for me, anyway). Only have one. Well, Technically maybe not a peewee -- it's 9/16.

I wanna see them. Especially the 3-color ones!

I like (and, to some extent collect) hybrid cats. But they don't seem to generate much interest, in general, unless they're big and weirdly spectacular. And some of them are. Yours are lovely, but fairly normal for the type. I was more impressed by your thinking "marble display-ers!" when you saw the communion cups, and by your making of their wooden holders! Great idea --