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I like Freddy!

Absolutely.

Don`t ever worry about being wrong here - - We`ve all been wrong at some time or another. Except maybe Ron & cheese and Steph.

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This constructed of parallel single color threads that run from pontil to pontil and stay a fairly uniform width during their travel is what I was talking about in my earlier post, and what Chad G. clearly illustrates in his last three pictures . . . . this type of JC is not easily mistaken for an onionskin, IMO.

Another plea for a guide to the differences . . . acknowledging, of course, that there are "tweeners."

I don`t know about the MCS . . . not even close to having the traditional colors or pattern? Maybe just a really nice Pelt shooter, with no name - yet? Seems to deserve one, though.

Interesting. I just went over my onionskins and Joseph Coats with a flashlight last night, and at least half of my onions only have a clear base as well; my JCs look like yours - not like onionskins. The OP still looks like an onionskin to me. I guess some of us are just going to have to agree to disagree!

The odds are it`s an end-of-cane when the colors stop short of the pontil. First-off-canes usually include the whole pattern. The rod has a hot glob of glass gathered on it that the hot cane is stuck to. They`re marvered together, then the necking-down process starts on the cane. Every now and then you might be able to tell if it`s a first-off-cane by seeing that one pontil is slightly open - the end that would be closest to the rod. But you don`t see it often, in my experience. End-of-canes aren`t common either.

This will be interesting -

Oh yes. Wish it were mine!

I`m pretty sure you`re right.

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Beer being the operative word . . . .

These are the ones usually called end-of-cane. They are really hard to find. I only have two, I think, and some "drools" that were cut off sometime during the process . . .

Weird. I certainly wouldn`t consider some of those one-color and two-color marbles Joseph Coats. That throws his whole paragraph into the "questionable"category for me

I love it! Both really good! I even like the music!

The first one kinda looks like a cat`s-eye from some angles . . . Pelt NLR Akro - I like it.

? Construction-wise, it doesn`t look much like an Akro, at least as far as I can tell from the photos. Maybe a shot without such dark shadows would help?

Pakro King???

Agree. And the title of that book really annoyed me! Of course, I bought it anyway . . .

I followed the purple streak and I`m still unenlightened. I don`t know enough about Vitro to recognize weird ones, so it could be anything. Maybe just one of those "nice marbles" we can`t figure out? Maybe someone else will know?

For some reason, the end-of-day terminology has always bothered me. Partly because there are conflicting or obscure definitions of it, and partly because what do we know what the glassworkers were doing at the end of a long, hot, tiresome day? Sticking around to make another marble, or blowing out of the door to go home? How do we know what some call end-of-day are not just end-of-cane? At any rate, I don`t think the term clarifies anything, so I personally don`t use it. Just my own decision, of course. All are free to also make their own decisions!