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Survivor! Again!

Awwwwwwww . . .

Good color comparison -- The lemon color looks a little translucent to me in the photos -- is it, or is it just a trick of the light / lens?

Oh now, that box is nice!

juvenile cobra . . .

It's pretty unusual in my book. In my experience, the yellow of a yellow-core marble is a little duller, more mustard-colored. This looks like the filling for a lemon meringue pie (yum!) And I'm more accustomed to seeing single-thread red stripes on one, although I do have one with single-thread green stripes. I think I only have one yellow-core marble that has wider stripes like those white ones on the lemon meringue -- and those are an odd mostly transparent pink. The sparseness of the outer threads plays up both the color and the construction of the core. I like them.

Thanks, Sami -- once you pointed out those four (plus one) of Bill's as being Fruit Cocktails I could immediately see it -- mainly the thickness and "evenness" of the ribbons. There are a couple of Winnie's that at first glance I might mistake for Fruit Cocktails (like the lower left in the group shot at the beginning of the thread) but a second look noting # of ribbons (Rainbo structure) would have changed my mind. It also looks like the Fruit Cocktail ribbons, in addition to being thicker, are pretty much opaque, while clear Rainbo ribbons can be translucent or even transparent, and can vary in color from one edge of the ribbon (or veil) to another. Is that also generally true? Got to go reclassify now . . . Oh -- and nice clear Rainbos, Winnie!

Here's some I have --

Great photo Bob!

Just think of Jello . . .

Sami, could you post pictures of the two different types? I've never seen the difference clearly illustrated. I've mostly heard "fruit cocktail" used for pretty much all clear Rainbos. I'd like to get it straight if that's wrong . . .

The only place I've seen them is in Gartley & Carskadden's book. And I've sort of looked. So in my book they're rare.

I want the eating popcorn and the can of worms and the piteous weeping one back.

Just checking to see if posting changes meant I could post a few pics I couldn't before . . . let's see . . . Oh well. Worth a try. Sorry Bob.

I wanna be a part of a Lazarus Run!

Workin' on my emoticon list, Steph --

. . . and the patterning is as much "Venetian blinds" as feathering. The best examples exhibit chatoyance, a favorite word I learned here in a long-ago thread about Pelt slags. Move the marble, it can look like blinds opening and closing. Or the pattern resembles wood grain. This banded agate bead shows what the marble makers were after . . .

Wow . . . I wanna throw some hot glass at that puppy! Make way! Make way!

I don't hate it yet, but I might. It took me a while to figure out how to get in . . . And does the writing have to be this tiny?

It wouldn't bother me at all if these were JABO . . . they're just really stumping me! Color? Structure? Beh.

Yup. They're out there. But transparent colorless with white feathering still eludes me.