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Wow. That's a doozy. I've never seen a CAC quite like it, but it looks more CAC than Akro to me. My 5 cents worth.

CAC slag, I think.

Love the blue flower china especially!

I know -- isn't that insane?? The first time I did that I kept looking away and then looking back, while some little hysterical part of my mind kept squealing "I'm really looking at it, it's not a picture, or a movie, or -- or -- "

Kinda like a snowflake obsidian, but reversed . . . Some kind of agate?

That's what I thought!

Just stumbled across this while looking for something else -- one of the "Smileys," in case you hadn't seen one --

That would be fun to find out!

I don't know about these two. They look glazed, but neither is a glaze I'm familiar with in the older glazed marbles. I kinda like the one on the right, though.

Just "dyed clays" will work for all three, although the one with the lines might also be called a "rolled commie." Usually the pattern is more random (they were rolled down a slanted shallow trough covered with dye pigment) but this one looks hand painted. The Bennington-type eyes occur on some dyed clays because the color was thickly applied, and wherever they were touching something else (the shelf, a neighbor) you'd get one . . . They look to be in great shape. Not that easy to find in that condition, at least when I was looking for some.

So the milkies might be Peltier's version of the moonie? I like thinking of it as an Acme Realer without a patch. That would make a pretty marble. And Opal Agates could be . . . Where's Hansel? Does he have some informative boxes, do you suppose? That would be nice to see . . .

'S why I like stars /n' stuff!

I wasn't making the hand-gathered assumption for canaries, since by 1929 machine-mades were rolling out . . . but if it's only hand-gathered marbles we're talking about then I'd say it's likely that Steph haz a canary! Wait. On the document they distinguish between materials for opal agates and materials for canaries -- and in the bulk marbles they make the same distinction. So are they talking about two different things? Are we wrong to assume those yellowish-milkies in the Opal Agate box are canaries? Or wrong to assume they're (also) opal agates? Milkie, canary, and opal are the ones we're uncertain about now, right? With a leaning toward the canaries being . . . well, like those yellowish ones in the opal agate box? And . . . back in the day, the term opal was used to mean translucent -- but it did not mean the fiery orange backglow we mean by the term today. Just noting it. Having Hellmers' batch book right here . . .

Yep, that's scary. But good.

Me too, me too . . .

How far? (I'm going to be retiring and moving south in the spring, and I'm half thrilled, half anxious, and a third half kinda scared, too . . . )

Good pic showing that, Winnie --

Great!

Is the base glass transparent green?

No lightning bugs in your neck of the woods? I'm sorry to hear that . . .

Yep, what they said. We're moving, the stars are moving, the meteors are moving, all at different speeds. And the distance to different stars can make a difference, too. The Persieds come in at about one a minute, on average . . .

I wonder if canaries are related to those yellow almost-pincher-like Pelt marbles that I believe Art Jones called "smileys?" When he ran into a trove of them he made up a few small boxes of them (with a bag). He was generous enough to send me a box that he initially had kept for himself, but it doesn't have the made-up label on it. They are a real oddity. Pretty sure somebody here has to have a pic . . . I think he told me he sold them in Ottowa?

Not holding out any hope here in Chicago. When I lived in Cleveland, we'd sometimes drive to this isolated campground near Chautauqua, NY, for the Persieds. Most of the camping sites there were in the woods ringing a large, rolling, open meadow. Sometimes the lightning bugs were floating around too. Died-and-went-to- heaven kinda thing.

YAY! Keep watching, keep watching - - -

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