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Fooey.

And February?

1. It's not mine. 2. It will never be mine.

Don't know. I've never paid any attention to tracers before . . . these are my first. For all I know, they don't qualify!

And maybe Mibstified will drop by . . .

I like it!

I think so too.

Then no, I've never seen corks like that. Wish I had -- they'd certainly be mine now!

No clue. Have these three. Maybe Champion? Somebody else?

Yep, copper. But not usually filings. It's a chemical reaction that happens in just the right circumstances, usually involving cupric oxide, heat, and oxygen. The copper in the cupric oxide "precipitates" out -- forms tiny gold-like crystals. Take it too far and you might get oxblood. The gold aventurine (only marble collectors call it "lutz") in antique German swirls (like that nice lutzy onionskin ^^ up there) was not usually made in Germany, but was imported from Venice. Still is.

Are the orange swirls really corkscrews? If not, they both look to me to be Alley corals. The base glass is transparent green?

Bronze zebra

Couple of tracers --

Me too.

9/16"! It'll be my first Akro almost-peewee. And it will live alongside the 5/8 one I already have . . . whee!

No offense at all! I don't mind having a new Rainbo I like that's sort of a mongrel tracer . . . and now I know two things I didn't know before. I like it when that happens!

And now this . . .

Agree that it's contemporary.

Well, Al, turns out you asked the Question of the Week! Once I got out the loupe and scrutinized the yellow parts of the marble carefully . . . I had to conclude that there is no yellow, really -- it only appears yellow due to the exact and particular depth of the white beneath the transparent red. Scurrying off to Steph's Study Hall to see the other ones . . .

OK -- With those examples I see exactly what you mean. But yes, the amber/gray/ivory part is actually clear. Just very faintly tinted. Faintly enough to make me wonder if the tint was even deliberate. Maybe it wasn't. So I went scrambling back through my marbles. Not sure why I didn't do that in the first place, but partly it was not to "contaminate" my thinking before others had a chance to suggest various things. And that's when I realized that the closest match I had for the structure of the marble was, in fact, a favorite Alley -- with the usual transparent green taking the place of the slightly-tinted clear. What do you think?

What he said^^^ I also haven't seen oxblood associated with that tint of clear glass -- just with some greens or that icy blue that cupric oxide produces. So I'm not sure the gray/ivory transparent has anything to do with the oxblood . . . But heck, it could have rolled out of an alien spaceship for all I know!

I remember one with snow. But I'm old. That's as far as I can take it.

I forgot to look to see if it was just buried white! But I remember it as really being yellow. Will check tonight. Meanwhile (thanks Steph!) . . .

Exactly how I feel!

Yay! First Mossy!