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I don`t think so. The cage lines are all one color, as I understand it. I`d post some pics, but a new laptop and new camera have me tech-challenged at the moment.

That makes sense too.

Thank you both! Original Post, of course . . .💡 . . . duh.

Having been out of the marble game for almost 6 years, I`ve come back to good news and bad news, and a couple of puzzles: #1 I was surprised to learn of the disappearance of Land of Marbles. When I vanished, it was a very active board, with lots of newbies. What happened? And . . . #2 A term whose meaning is self-evident, meaning "the marble that`s the subject of this thread," or "the marble in question." But I have yet to figure out what OP actually stands for. Enlighten me?

Oh no!

Or it might have been cut "first-off-cane" on a cane prepared for one of the swirl types. I have a few first- or second-off-cane types, and they usually have some trace of the design-to-come, but not always. If they do have some fraction of the design element, they usually are finished off as marbles - hard to find, but highly valued by some collectors. This one looks like just a first cut, and "no color so no finishing as a marble." Hence the protruding flattened cut. My best guess.

There usually seems to be one big "shooter" in a net bag of Mega Marbles (Vacor`s USA distributor). A non-collector friend of mine occasionally sends me a bag she picks up at her grocery store.

I'm a fancier of Champion furnace swirls, and no, that`s not one. Jeff54 seems to have it as close as I think anyone can get. I also agree with him that "clear is not a danged color yet." I know it uses more words, but it really should be "transparent colorless." It`s what I try to use, but then I`m a retired art historian, and therefore a terminology freak . . .

Not a thing, to my knowledge; just a normal yellow latticino. "Caged" usually signifies regularly-spaced, thin single lines on the surface.

Akro flame? Where did somebody say that?

How great that he/she likes your yard!

Looks like a slug to me!

That hair line can be the result of a chemical reaction, but it also can be oxblood. Usually hard to distinguish the two since it`s so dark and so - well - hair thin. I think it`s a bonus either way too.

Agree. Kind of the opposite of the slag thing: lacking any characteristic traits, odds are it`s an Akro, since they made more marbles than most. With CAC , they made so few marbles that if in doubt, odds are that it`s not a CAC. Unfortunately.

I think he was talking about me, Ron . . .

I`m so glad we know where he is now. I was worried.

NICE.

How`s the campaign going, about those nasty patches?

Don`t know. I have a couple PPPs with oxblood, but they`re both opaque glass. I`ve only bought the oddball PPPs occasionally, so someone else - maybe cheese - would be better to answer that for you.

I think PPP too, and it kinda looks like oxblood. Makes sense, with that green -

After having a sandwich and thinking about it: As I said I`m not a patch collector - although I do buy pretty ones now and again - but I am a transparent-based corkscrew fancier and collector, and the only Akro I`ve seen like this with a transparent red base and this color of green, is a cork, and a very fat cork too. The only other color combination I`ve found with a transparent base and very fat cork is blue transparent with a yellow fat cork. So I`m sticking with lazy cork, myself. Not a hill I`m willing to die on, mind you. To each his own!

I thought Elvis had left the building . . .

Hmmmm . . . wasn`t considering the red as the base - so you`re saying the green is the patch?

And great albino pics - have never seen one in the wild. But there is a great Piliated Woodpecker that stops by, and a pair of Red-Headed Woodpeckers nesting in the yard next to mine, and dining at my feeders nearly every day . . .