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Aw, that's pretty . . .

Lots of pretty ones! Thanks for posting them! Am awaiting a few myself --

I don't think it is. If it is, its a very new rule. Very, very new. I believe that calling something "lutz" in marble-collector terms is usually meant to indicate the appearance, or look of a substance rather than the method or materials of its manufacture. If I say a transparent banded lutz, or an onionskin with lutz, most of you know what I mean. It has a quite different appearance from what is usually called aventurine of the same period (even though they both may be aventurine, produced in a very similar fashion, accidentally or not). When I see exactly the same sparkly-gold-lutz-effect on an Alley (and there ARE some, just not the one pictured) or -- gasp -- a Jabo, it's lutz, appearance-wise. If you want to drop the use of the word lutz altogether, fine. There may be valid reasons to do so, although it would eliminate a useful term from our marble vocabulary. But you'd need to drop it across the board. No Alley lutz, no onionskin lutz. Just banded transparents with gold aventurine.

Nope! But nice. The distribution of whatever-you-want-to-call-it looks similar to the one pictured in this thread, though . . .

Yep, the Gold Coast! Wells is one street west of me and the (newish) "Old Town" sign is right there at Wells & Division . . . pretty much still party central!

JimLin, yours sounds like it fits in the type I'm talking about. I know of about 14 or 15 Alley "lutzes" that are variations on a green (from a light moss green through a "standard" green to light olive) and/OR blue color scheme. I had two (green) myself, but gave away my best one. Hey, maybe a good reason to be nice to the old coot. Ahh, don't bother. I'm only nice once a year or so. Anyway. So if a red one has turned up now I'd wonder if it were accidental or not. Alley DID experiment.

Looks good to me. Not at that price, however!

That's an interesting marble, for sure -- the only Alley "lutz" marbles I've seen were with green or green and blue. Those are rare, but if this one is the only one Ron has seen -- wow! Ron, have you seen any (besides this one) with colors other than green or/and blue?

Pretend it's kind of a weird birthday cake emoticon . . .

Yup, I'd take it. Hey, maybe I will! Everyoneone keep thinking it's an Akro. No! A Jabo! That's it . . .

I like both of 'em!

Not a hockey fan either, but I live in Chicago a couple of blocks from the intersection of Rush and Division (Chicagoans will know what that means!) and right after they won on Wednesday night, I was startled out of my chair by the sudden onslaught of horns, screeches, fireworks, and, well, maybe a little gunfire a little to the west, that went on until 3 a.m.! Work just 2 blocks from today's rally and there are people still streaming by, on their way home. Or somewhere. Pretty happy over here!

Yeppers!

Me too --

Not being a surfer, when I hear the word "Humbolt" I think either "Current" or "squid!"

DEADLIEST! DEADLIEST CATCH! most dangerous catch. I was tired yesterday. Still no excuse for someone who even watched the Deadliest Catch marathon over Memorial Day weekend . . . Grew up on the water myself, and still take some pride in the fact that as a kid my parents only felt compelled to call the Coast Guard once when me and my sailing or Boston Whaler buddies didn't turn up when we were supposed to! What a great boat you had!

Hey, if we can change Griff to Sprinkles . . .

Ever watch Most Dangerous Catch?

I heard the T-Tool one from Steve, but honestly I prefer Sprinkles . . .

Guess he's not gonna send me the marble.

Darth is my brother. Dichroic?? Wow, I didn't know that had entered the equation! THAT's what I was seeing that kept me thinking iridescent? Opalescent? With chunks of something. Really interesting. I like it! . . . 'course I could probably understand it a lot better if you just stuck that bad boy in an envelope addressed to me . . . Thanks Ron & Griff -- er -- may I call you Sprinkles too? Just on special occasions? You can say no.

Wow, that's nice! Most of the slate stuff I got to see and handle were those great "bannerstone" type objects that they now think were mostly spearthrower weights. I did once get to look at a couple of Adena incised banded slate "tablets" -- whatever they are. Not sure anybody's figured them out yet, although I'm not really up on the reading anymore, like I used to be. But my actual handling highlight was jade. Back in the 1980s we had a great Maya exhibition called "The Blood of Kings" (where it was first really shown that when it came to blood sacrifices, the Aztecs didn't have much on the so-called "peacefull" Maya!), and I got to fondle the incised jade "Leiden Plaque" before it was installed in the gallery. I think I held my breath the whole time. I may have turned blue. Do you have any ceramics, too, or mostly stone artifacts? Love this stuff!

That's real nice. Don't have much along these lines myself but worked for 18 years in a great museum collection that included art of the ancient Americas. I think you're probably right about it being earlier than the Gate of the Sun. The museum was, conveniently, in Ohio . . . so I spent a lot of time messing around with Adena and Hopewell stuff (and some archaic points), and wandering over burial mounds and earthworks in the general vicinity of Chillicothe . . . wonderful stuff. Ever seen any of the crazy shaped-mica pieces?

Ah, talk to me about this one . . .

What she said!