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That is really, really nice, Winnie.

Oh my. No, I don't have one of those. I would remember having that one! Thanks, Ron -- your post helped a lot. Are the Alley Exotic Corals you refer to the type with yellow and/or orange added to the coral ribbons, like the ones shown in Larry Alley's book?

So I went back to Larry Alley's book and combed for corals . . . all kinds are in there. Some spectacular. So . . . Is the thought now that until further notice, all corals should probably be considered Alley? That would certainly be a relief. What's the current feeling?

Hi John -- So is it glass temperature, but not related to the temp. of the rollers? Or something off in the glass mix, maybe?

Oh heck, you mean we can't argue about it? Shucks. Turns out I only have one Vaseline slag, a two-seamed one like Galen described. The other one I thought I was remembering is not Vaseline, but a light, bright lime green that glows like heck. I only have one of the non-glowing "electric" yellow slags, but I did turn up a darker-but-still-yellow one where the white, not the base glass, glows pale orange. That was a surprise.

I have a friend who says he knows for certain that socks are nothing but larval coat hangers.

It's kind of frightening, really . . .

That box is a heartstopper, Dave!

I'm leaning toward Venusian. I've always wanted to say that. Or something like that.

My hero . . .

I'm hungry.

Dunno. Doesn't look very West Virginian to me, structurally. Maybe something else Alley, although I'm struggling a little with the Alley call. But then I've had to do that several times lately!

I'm already packed.

I'd probably put it with my banded transparents. Doesn't look like a mist to me.

Whoah, pink would be nice! Don't forget to post it for us, regardless of what it turns out to be!

No bells for me. Been trying to think if I have seen any Nova-ish marbles that weren't actual Novas . . . no luck so far. I do like it, though.

I vote Akro too. Maybe handgathered? Ummm . . . I hate to disagree with Galen -- really -- but I might argue that CAC did have Vaseline slags. Pretty sure I have a couple. I also have one of the transparent vivid yellow ones that aren't fluorescent. And it's definitely a yellow nobody else had. But for form's sake I will double check my CAC slags tonight, just to make sure. They could be just fluorescent, without being Vaseline . . . And he's right about MFC. They didn't have Vaseline glass.

I'm not into that myself, but I know Gene Krupa's name because my parents were big-band people. Lots of Glenn Miller got played in our house too.

Thank you! Now I feel better going into the weekend . . .

It's one of the things that I like most about marbles too -- the new and continuing mysteries . . . Just when you think you know something . . .

I guess I'm saying that I haven't seen enough of either to make a valid comparison. It's my understanding (which is always imperfect) that Prima Agates in an original box are scarcer than even the Cerise Agates in an original box. For a while we didn't really know what the Primas looked like. Only figured it out recently (salute migbar!). And from some of the Pelt paperwork I've been lucky enough to see, we know that the Prima, along with the colored onyx (slag) and the Cerise, were the first three marbles that Pelt developed, And now that I have a Cerise box, I understand that I probably would need a Prima Agate box in my hands and a little time with the marbles to even begin looking for them elsewhere (free-range Prima Agates, I guess you could call them). Going by photos only -- always risky -- they seem to have some similarities with the AAs, but they seem "cloudy-er," With some translucent white in some places. Maybe everyone should send me their Prima Agate boxes so I can know what the heck I'm talking about.

Bloodie.

Here's a nice green one --

Yep. The Primas are a problem. Have never seen one in person -- just photos. Unless there's some trick to them (and there might be ), and the few American Agates I've seen (don't have one of those either) are really Primas . . . If you post your Cerise candidates, I might be able to tell if they are or not. They're a very orange red -- not ruby, for example -- and somewhere there should be a seam, or something that looks like one. There are the occasional strays. Once I had my beloved box of them, I realized I'd had one Cerise for a few years but not known it as anything but a mysterious red slag. Same thing happened to at least one other person -- Already had one but didn't know it until he got his box . . .