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A markhor, a kind of wild goat native to Afghanistan, Pakistan, & northern India. I was so startled by it I forget now what I was originally trying to find . . .

Hmmm . . . with a banana inside (I see it, now - I think I was reading it as pat of the internal fracture) I agree it could be Pelt . . . but now it's lookin' kinda Asian, too. Maybe I'm just burned out from the work week !

Oh stop it stop it stop it stop it . . .

Beautiful. And another kind of natural wonder . . . this one was new to me:

I think it's probably an industrial marble with an annealing fracture . . . most industrial marbles were (and still are, as far as I know) that color, which is a result of cupric oxide . . . the copper-based stuff that was talked about so much in some recent oxblood-related thread. Which escapes me at the moment. Going for another cup of coffee.

Sure is!

Sure is. They're very hard to find down here. I only have two -- one I bought from Alan back in the day, and one from the wild . . .

Me too. And that doesn't look like a MFC cut off. Bottom left pic = looks like it could be a melted pontil (without very much carbon schmutz), which would nudge it over towards J. H. Leighton, maybe either Navarre or Barberton. Most of the Navarres I've seen have been purple or a dark color that reads as black, and the lighter-colored ones always seem to be Barberton. Not gonna die on that hill, though.

Sure is.

What he ^^^^^ said about the second one. Which I like a lot. About the first one -- machine-made Pelt slags don't generally have as much white "veiling" on the marble as exhibited on the first marble, The white Pelt feathering usually stands out pretty clearly against its background. A high contrast kinda thing, often with a "wood grain" pattern. Like on these:

OK, I restrained myself. Only went for two. In addition to the oxblood in another thread, I got this one to accompany my Shamrock . . .

I just got this one! Happy happy happy happy

Huh. I checked. That's it. The wispy green and the Vaseline . . . I've probably overlooked some, given their nature, when trolling for corks . . .

First one doesn't look particularly Pelt to me. Maybe Akro . . .

That's what I'd like to see too. MFC slags usually have a straight cut-off mark -- like so:

Me too. I think the early Rainbo thing is coming from the thickness of the ribbons on/in this type -- more akin to NLR than Rainbo ribbons. But I don't know if that's a valid argument or not.

WHEE!

New cat --

That's how I'd go. I believe the deeper, more saturated colors are earlier than the later, more-coke-bottle-glass ones. At least, relative to each other. I have one this color . . . very pretty!

Just a rounded butt-crack kinda thingee. Has a few snips of green ribbons on the other side --

Me too! Odds are it's Pelt.

Looks like a Pelt cross-through to me. I think the thought is that they're just before Rainbos or very early Rainbos. Kinda hard to find. The few (3 or 4) I have are either yellow / white, like yours, or all yellow -- until recently, when I found a white / transparent red one. Will not mention the "They could be cat's-eyes" thing. Forget I even said it.

Nice! Opal Lady? I just got a new basic oxblood / green swirl . . . not as spectacular as some, but still nice to have --

These are the only two bag types I'm aware of for Ilmenau. Found one lone marble in my rummaging around for weird cat's-eyes, no clue what it was -- then found the bag full. Later got one of the bags like you posted. There now. You now know as much as I do about them!