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Nice! I like those Winlock marbles - I have a few . . .

There IS a bat signal for Ron! Love it!

I sure do like that one . . .

It`s possible, at least part of it for a few companies. I have a copy of Henry Hellmer`s "secret book of glass formulae" that was published in facsimile some years ago. He was Akro Agate`s first real glass chemist, worked for them (and others, like Cambridge Glass and occasionally - for special formulas, Lawrence Alley and others). Has every color he knew and every color he formulated himself, w/ notations for what they were for (marbles, tempered glass dinnerware, etc.) and the dates he first made them, the results, etc. Every one starts off with "a thousand pounds of sand" and goes from there. I know a formula book, or at least a partial one, exists for Peltier glass, and many MFC formulas are known. The other half would be the really hard and expensive part you talk about - pulverizing a marble to see if you could determine the chemical mix of it. But even then there`s a lot lost that`s unrecoverable - the temperature of the furnace, the drafts in the shop, even the barometric pressure can have an effect. But I like the dream of it!

What Ron said, as usual ^^^^. Just my personal opinion, and not a fact, is that some Peltier glass had a little more chemical reaction with certain colors than some other marble companies` did, resulting in the more often "burnt" appearance here and there. However, if you look closely at a lot of Akro two-color or multi-colored corks, you will often find a thin dark "eyeliner" of color, which I once heard a collector try to explain as a difficult effect never mastered by anyone but Akro. I confess I nearly spit my coffee onto my keyboard. It`s the chemical reaction effect, just on a very much more minor scale. And usually attractive. Take a good look at some of your multi-colored corks next time you have them out.

A purple fizz . . . sigh. And I don`t even have a green one yet . . . Purple fizz . . . how can I unhear that ??? ???

Great addition -

You`re not way off - you`re right on! When hot glass of one color meets hot glass of another color, you can sometimes get a chemical reaction (usually a dark line, brownish line, "burnt" appearance) but there`s no mixing or blending of colors, as with pigments. As you say, you might sometimes get a slight overlap, or overlay, which may give the illusion of a blend - but it`s not one.

Snakes and spiders!

Congrats!

Yes, CAC

Totally agree. Totally. Agree.

Yaaaaaah. You just brought back foul memories . . . .

I`ll drink to that. I miss him, his help, his honesty, and his marble sales to this very day.

Well, this might take a while . . . great ref!

Yep. CAC. Nice blue.

I`m sure it probably is - just got out of the hospital (pneumonia) and am still a little zombie-like. Bengal, Siberian, Amur. And don`t know nuttin `bout no Vacor . . . only a tad more about MK . . .

Might be just my monitor, but it looks more orange than red - in which case it would be a Bengal Tiger. But if it`s more red in hand, then I think you have it. (AV is very hard to shoot - you`re doing fine!)

Don`t really see anything CAC here, but . . .

I like the Nimitz-class destroyer. And the beautiful Rainbo.

Pelt - eh. Not so much. Could be, maybe, given the crazyness that sometimes comes off the rollers . . .

Nope. Hopefully Ron will stop by. He`ll know.

Go to the show! Go to the show! Stay at the hotel a night or two for the in-room trading!

Oh, wouldn`t that be a treat!

You can stay up there for a little while more, too!