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Yep.

I respectfully agree.

The green & blue flame is georgeous, but what's the color of the one just behind it? Is it really purple, or just a deep blue? Either way, I'd take it!

And I bought one of MY carefully-hoarded three gutta perchas from you, Dani! I love it, but not quite as much as the ones you kept! (Red one's a doozy) Ann

Maybe he'll get lucky, but I very seriously doubt that one too . . .

I'd say no. But better-than-some attempts I've seen --

Works for me. Ann

I'm watchin' it - - -

Illhavethat1? I'll have that one on the lower left too. Maybe we could all get together and fight for it . . .

Happy Birthday Sue -- mine's in a couple of days, so we DO have some things in common - - -

Great gutta perchas! I want one! Either one! Just send me either one!

Nice dilemmas, Steph! A couple of my CAC one-seam slags have that extra little swirly bit on the other side, too. Good thing I don't care what they're called!

I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're trying to make between matching the description and meeting the criteria . . . they sound like the same thing to me. BUT at last I agree with you, Sue! That's a gorgeous marble, and I would NEVER have called it a tri-stage one either . . .

This is how I assumed the single seam was produced --- and I don't think I've ever seen the term "diaper fold" applied to anything but single-seam CACs resembling the drawing that steph posted. Is "diaper fold" a useful term to anyone, anyway? If not, maybe it should be allowed to die a natural death . . .

And so much for toning down the inflammatory language. Hopeless.

1. Spoken like a gentleman, Steve. 2. Nice striped opaque, winnie! Thank you! 3. And Sue, it's not necessary to "slam" someone to educate them. And it's not necessary to pretend that you know less than you do. You can so easily be a resource for all of us. 4. Thanks, catfish, for the distinction between handmade banded and machine-made striped! Hadn't picked up on that before. See, isn't this fun?

I accept your apology, deny that I've jumped in to insult anyone, and confirm that it annoys the heck out of me when threads get personal and vicious, for whatever reason, but especially if some of the argument is happening somewhere else, like in PMs, and therefore are seemingly irrational by the time they're spewed out here. Once they're here, Sue, they're fair game. Toning down the inflammatory language would help. Everybody everywhere. Nice mib.

Sue, I'm not the one talking about people not taking their meds, or being "assholian," or suffering from OCD, or telling another member of this forum to JUST SHUT UP in very large capital letters (which has since disappeared from this thread), or -- wait -- you're right. There's no point in this. You're just being difficult. Now I understand why regular posters here get really cranky after a while. Consider me cranked. Got any diaper folds?

So they did make striped opaques? Does bermar's diaper fold look like it might be one?

What Alan said.

I'm sorry, but this thread only became ridiculous when you joined in, Sue. Please do take a break. I don't know if it's a diaper fold or not, Ric, but it's purdy. And you sure have some nice ones (I particularly like the red slag you posted earlier).

Excuse me? You wanna meet me over at the Squabble Zone?

Not worth fighting over, but ALWAYS worth bringing up - - -

WHOA! Great fall mib!

For hand-mades I think the best is Paul Baumann's "Collecting Antique Marbles." And I agree with modularforms about Block's book -- some of the examples are not the greatest, but it was really useful to me too in the beginning, and I still turn to it now and then -- for machine-mades, anyway. There's a book called "Popular American Marbles" (Johnson, Six, etc.) but don't spend your money on that one. The photos are lousy and there's a heavy reliance on their earlier (and much better) book that deals mostly with manufacturers and packaging. Unfortunately, there's not really ONE book that does for machine-mades what Baumann's does for the handmades -- yet!