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I don't know whether to be relieved or worried that someone else classifies their cat's-eyes the same way I do . . .

Agree, it's Alley, and Bubba hain't done me wrong yet . . .

Had a choice between here and Texas, and picked Texas . . . Haven't been out of state for a while!

Yup, an auger. They can be either opaque white in colored transparent glass, or opaque colored glass in colorless transparent glass. (One of those idiots who's trying to have one each of all of them . . .)

A little TOO easy to make, and awfully hard to get rid of!

I'm going!

Me too!

NICE! Never seen any like those . . .

What Sue said. At least for the U.S. And it took me a couple of years to corral one of those Akron mibs -- nice example, Steph! And cobalt sounds good for the usual blue benny coloring, FWIW.

There are a fair number of oddities in 19th century glazed mibs, I suspect it's due to the variability of the glaze chemicals and the kiln heat. I have a few black ones (maybe ballot-box mibs), green ones, a couple of pink ones, etc. I don't think of them as bennies if they don't have the bennington "eyes," but that may just be me. They're all probably made in very much the same way. Paul Baumann singles out the pink ones (no "eyes") as being called American majolica, and I'd be perfectly happy with that, except I'm worrying over the fact that I got mine in Germany . . .

Aw gee, too much aventurine, shucks. NICE ones migbar! No, you don't need no patent . . . Yr Frnd Ann

What Sue said.

Me neither. Is that more carpet bowl size? Doesn't look like any carpet bowls I've seen either, but that's not saying much . . .

If you live in a big enough town, you might be able to find a dry cleaner who does specialty work. When I worked at a museum, we had some of our 19th century textiles nicely cleaned by a dry cleaner, but it's not cheap -- basically you have to pay them to dump the tank, flush it, and refill it with sparkling new dry-cleaning fluid . . . might not be worth it. But you could ask one what they think . . .

First glance, I'd say contemporary --

Can we talk about plasma physics for awhile? I don't get this numbers stuff. "Steph, thanks for splainin' that. There are three kinds of people here at Lou's marble Connection... those who are good at math, and those who arent." HAW! Good one! I mean two. I mean . . . .

And I was hoping for something a little easier to understand . . . like fluid dynamics or something.

I doubt it -- CAC peach is very light, and usually veers toward pink more than most would expect --

Now THAT'S the interesting question!

I'm not missing the way things were one bit. Just sayin.'

And we need to know this because . . . (OK, so I freeze when confronted with anything more than addition and subtraction. Of whole numbers.)

Yea, I guess the bag. The marbles aren't right. But the bag isn't in very good shape -- I wouldn't pay that much for it. But that's just me.

Pleased to see someone else dislikes PETA for their tactics and questionable philosophy . . . if you can even call it that.

Me too!

MC Marbles reply is good -- but the best way, if you're like me (not fabulously wealthy), is to haunt ebay, or maybe some of the folks here (!), and pick up (for not all that much $$) genuine PIECES of guineas for study. Eventually managed to get guinea halves in clear, blue, and amber bases. Once I had those in hand, it finally became fairly obvious when a faked guinea like this one popped up . . .