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I'll get them out of you, never fear . . .

I dunno . . . at first glance looks more related to the aqua/green/horsehair oxblood on white type. To me, anyway . . .

There also is no such thing as an Akro corkscrew. However. That term, along with others that have come into use (snake and auger, for example) do save an awful lot of descriptive wordiness when we want to talk about them . . . .

Me too!

!!! Says the President of the Name Haters Club.

Agree with Ric. More clear glass in the Heaton than in the Alley version.

I can see getting some of those too. For my desk . . . switch around to a different version every so often . . .

What she ^^^ said.

Whoa . . .

I too have a small, secret hoard of old (mostly translucent) Imperials . . .

Can you post a photo of one or two cats that you know are Heaton? Or a Heaton bag with cats in it? Or both? I think I know the clean-structured ones you're talking about, but I have always assumed they were all Bogard. I don't remember ever seeing Heaton bags. Maybe Al will wander by too. I've heard too that Jack Bogard didn't much care for swirls, so yep I'd be interested to find out that he made some. Stands to reason that they'd be very plain -- the ones in my cat bag sure are. In the couple of Mountaineer blister packs I have, there are also ones I've seen called "green onionskins." I wouldn't use that term though. More like a transparent colorless marble with green filaments near the surface in one area, as best as I can remember.

I think orange is pretty rare during the slag period . . . I only have three, two of them the old Pelt "yin-yang" style (similar to Mike's two top ones). From Art Jones.

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Recently-acquired RWB Champions --

I'm another envious snake lover . . .

I guess I wandered off for a minute. Heaton cat's-eyes? Where did that come from? Do we know what Heaton cat's-eyes look like? If so, I surely would appreciate the info. And photos. And anyhoo, since Bogard's tanks and machinery were Heaton's tanks and machinery, is this a distinction anyone thinks they can make? I haven't opened my bag:

I see only onionskins . . .

Why would they?

I think the term "WV swirl" came into use in the days before we had sorted out some characteristics of the vintage marbles from different (WV) companies. Once we became more and more able to ID certain types as "Cairo," "Alley," "Bogard," "Ravenswood," etc,, the term "WV swirl" remained useful (as it still does) only for those remaining swirls that can't be pinned down to any one company. I don't think the term should be applied when we know the marble's maker, like Champion, D.A.S., etc. No point, really We don't need a "catch-all" for them - - - JMO . Don't know nuttin about no big WV swirls. Just big Alleys.

So we've discovered something! That doesn't happen very often. Whee! Going on a hunt for Master cat bags . . .

Thanks, Joe!

Oh man I'm having a flashback . . .

For pies, apple. I've wondered about that cheddar-on-apple-pie thing. Never tried it. Have a hard time thinking about the two together, somehow . . . For plain old fruit, cherries. Preferably black. Don't like the skin on fresh apples, or the hissy consistency of the flesh . . .

I have one. Got it from Alan, back in the day. Could stand to have more, but I guess people who have them want to keep them. I'm keepin' mine! (So now we know where two of them are!)

There you go.