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No idea. But I like it.

I believe this glazed type is sometimes also referred to as a lined crockery, because that's what they were intended to imitate -- the varigated clay ones. I think Paul Baumann called them that too, but I'd have to check.

This is the only pink mica I've ever seen. Never seen one in person. And I like micas a lot. I have a fairly wide range of amethyst ones, from very dark to very light -- kind of watery. I couldn't / wouldn't call any of them pink, though. Yours look like the nice watery amethysts I have, metalshelf. At least in the photos.

An illegal mating between a gooseberry and a cornhusk = caramel swirl.

A wonderful cat's-eye! I love the marbles with "extras." Nice piece of furnace brick in there. Don't see chunks that big included very often!

Fairly well. But a photo has to be close and clear to really tell if a marble could be a mist. The "mist" itself is usually just a faint wash of color on the surface, and it's generally apparent that that's what it is. Kind of like a very thin transparent curtain of green or blue, usually. Kind of wavery in areas. Looks like there might be a white latticinio core there? If so, that alone would probably mean it's not a mist. Mists were cost-savers, and if they had anything additional at all it was usually a light sprinkling of mica -- no more. But it's hard to tell from the photo if those are white latticinio threads inside, or the green translucent strands Mattshaw mentions. If it's the green translucent threads and they're on the outside, it might be a mist. When you have a chance for a sharper photo, we should take another look. Be nice if it was one. I personally have not found many mists . . .

Oooo -- I have just one red one. Will check tonight! Your green slags glow green? Or that vivid orange?

Well, I remembered correctly, more or less. Only the green 2-seamed slag was hot uranium green under UV. Two red ones lit up with streaks of orange. The rest (a dozen or so, including the transparent colorless ones) did not react. But. A few of my Euro sparklers caught me by surprise. Some had the expected threads (or areas) of hot orange, but on two of them the moderate to small areas of white lit up lavender! Never seen that before. Wow. So you have some red 2-seamed ones that glow green, Winnie? Or am I reading that wrong?

Yep.

That was fun! Swarms!

I do! Will have fun tonight, thanks Winnie!

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Sounds reasonable. But I seem to remember some smaller Euro sparklers with orange peel. In which case I'd have to go with the temperature thing. I'll check mine tonight . . .

I don't know. Looks more like a conglomerate-type rock to me. Don't remember seeing any with that density & pattern of "blood." But I haven't seen that many marble marbles, and I certainly don't have one.

I have a problematic medium green one -- problematic in that structurally it looks like a German 2-seamed slag, but it's hot as heck, pure bright uranium green under UV None of my other German 2-seamed slags glow green like that -- just the occasional threads of hot orange. So the green one is problematic for me. The medium green color in regular light looks very CAC >>banging head on desk<< Anybody else?

What she ^^^ said.

I still say it. Mostly to myself, though.

Hey Chuck -- CAC is what I was thinking of when I said ^^^^^ that. I've been told the ones with transparent green with smooth ribbons were Champion, while those with ribbons whose bottoms were striated were CACs. That would leave Alley for the opaques, I guess. I'm not sure why I'm reluctant to believe all that. Seems to me any company could make any of them or all of them, depending on the glass formula, the weather, and whatnot. Setting aside that, where have they been found? Ron says a number of corals have been found at Alley sites (or one Alley site?) but I'm not sure what type of coral. The one I put up in that post is below. . . and he said Alley about that one. So I don't know nuffink.

As far as I know. I have a few each from Akro, Peltier, and Christensen. They're not particularly common, though. Akro probably had the most, and the biggest, although I don't know for sure, since I never actively pursued them. I spent most of my time scrounging around for Pelt ones! And according to the MFC records, they didn't have Vaseline. The full extent of my knowledge.

Very!

Interesting. I've seen that odd green before. Also going off for the swirls and blacklight . . .

First photo looks like an iceberg that's just broken off from a glacier field. That's as good as it gets from me. I'm with Steph.

I can always tell the Ravenswoods, because the coral isn't really coral, in my mind, and the green is a little off too (too much blue hue?), and the ribbons (when you can distinguish ribbons) are a little blurry. So I don't really think of them as corals. But then there are the real corals . . . one type with transparent green base and another with opaque green base? One made by one company and the other made by another? Was only one type found at the Alley sites? Or both? Or are there two (or more) types with the transparent green, as I have also heard? Or . . . or . . . .or . . . That's what I don't understand. RON . . . RONNNN . . .

That's a mighty handsome whatever-it-is, Ric!