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Nice! Kind of comforting to hear my hair-splitting is understood! When I took out my onyxes last night, eureka, I had one very like the new one except the base color was clearly amber and not UV reactive. The two looked lovely together. So much so that I separated them out from the onyxes (my onyxes tend to have thinner corks with multiple wraps). A sub-category of onyxes. You understand, right?

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I just got one that makes me dither -- I'm not comfortable calling it a snake because the cork is so fat. I'm leaning towards calling it "just" a transparent-based corkscrew. Of course I'm splitting hairs. That's what I do. What do you all think? The transparent base color was what interested me, and sure enough it's very lightly tinted -- seems to be amber -- but I was surprised when, as a matter of course, I hit it with UV (like I do every newly-received marble) and the base lit up green like a son-of-a-gun. Whee!

Wait! Red?? How did red get in front of white??? Now I have to watch it again . . .

Oh now that sounds good . . .

I may be one too. Math makes my head hurt.

I don't remember where I got this picture of the Shamrock "rounding machine" -- It was taken at a show, I think. Maybe KC?

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Never mind. The picture I have of the other one is too big now . . .

I have several hand-cut agates by a contemporary artist, who says, at least, that he makes them for play. Or so that they could be used for play. I forget his name (I'm old) but I can find out tonight at home (I kept his card) and let you know. He occasionally sells on ebay. A couple of Botswana agates I've gotten from him:

I'll call you. Interesting you should say that about the citruses. The seller said he didn't know if it was a K & M with relish or a member of the citrus family. But it was pretty so I bought it. Just curious about what people think it is . . .

Good Luck!

Ketchup & Mustard & Relishes, or, since the green is transparent, is it something else? Not up to snuff on some of the more esoteric Pelts.

Yep, the first two are cat's-eyes. What collectors call "hybrid cat's-eyes," meaning more than one color on each vane. Vitro Agate seems to have made most of them (My avatar is a hybrid Vitro cat)

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Or, as a favorite gentleman caller of mine likes to point out, particularly when something goes wrong -- the intelligence of half of the people in the world is, by definition, below average.

Gino Biffany of Ottawa, IL tells me these are Peltier marbles. Only box known. So, does that mean these could be the fabled "canaries?" That would be so cool . . .

Heavy, man.

Yay! Another place I can post these:

OK, now back to the other one. Inquiring minds (me N ric) want to know. The marble on the right -- do some people now think this is Kokomo rather than Pelt?

Mine too.

And opalescent pastel two-color snakes . . .

I like augers too.

Well, I do declare. I've looked at this whole thread more than once (since I am sporadically attracted to metallics) and just now noticed that Al has two marbles in his Pelt box that match a possibly PPP that I have and have been fretting over. I had just never seen a Pelt like it. Now I have! Whee! Bottom right in Al's box, and second from right on next-to-last row. Then mine.

Here's a Pelt --