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Well, if I turn my head sideways and squint a little . . . And ignore the peculiarly watery look of the glass in photo #3 . . . I'll say Japanese too. Interesting color. Is it really that yellow? I'm not seeing it as green. I'd need a touch more green to call it chartreuse . . .

They're rare, but they're there . . . Transparent green, and . . . never seen one myself, but in the last edition of his book Paul Baumann illustrates a brick with transparent colorless base . . .

Interesting!

That was the other thing. It's what I want it to be too. Knowing it was Clyde's . . . chances are good.

Do you get any orange in the base when you backlight it?

That was one of the two things I was thinking . . .

What she said ^^^

Just to avoid confusion, and there's still plenty of it, everywhere, the above sentence is correct -- but those marbles are not now called "Leighton." At least not by a lot of people. They're usually referred to as German hand-gathered "ground-pontil" marbles -- the marbles formerly known as Prince. Leighton. And the bases are frequently light-colored and transparent. Those of us who have made the adjustment (and not all have) reserve the term "Leighton" for those American hand-gathered, melted-pontil marbles actually made by or closely associated with J. H. Leighton (Navarre, Barberton, etc.). Lots of them are purple. And restrict the term "transitional" to marbles that were hand gathered but machine rounded. Still some discussion on that one, I think. But it makes sense. Although I think a case can be made for calling the earliest hand-gathered slag-type marbles transitionals, too (like the ground-pontil Germans and the American Leightons), as transitioning away from the traditional cane-cut marbles. But then would you have to think of all hand-gathered marbles as transitionals, whether machine-rounded or not? Because they're all eventually to be replaced by machine-mades? Ugg. Maybe another thread. Making a long story short = every time you see the term "Leighton" or "transitional," little tiny warning flags should pop up. Find out what those terms mean to the person who's using them . . .

My newest Rainbo friend:

I can accept that. But I don't see the "big spidery cut off." I see a rough pontil. But that may just be my slightly-warped-brain's interpretation.

Anything is possible. But the glass doesn't look like the early Germans to me.

I don't think out-of-round counts quite so much in the old German handmades. That said, what everybody else said ^^^ up there. I personally like marbles with accidental "stuff" in them. And deliberately have a couple examples of marbles with a flat side that got by quality control (a sparkler, but not as good as Steph's! and an interestingly flat-sided ribbon lutz swirl).

I expect any Leighton marble (which includes Barberton) to have a melted pontil, and this doesn't. And I join Steph in first thinking "Japanese" until I saw the rough pontil. Ummmm . . . just throwin' it out there . . . Bulgarian Curiosity?

Agree, Pelt Blue Panda --

Old.

I don't know about that particular genetic disposition, Galen, but I have the same reaction to apple skins. Oddly, I once had a horse who felt the same. Give him an unpeeled apple or piece of unpeeled apple and he would spit it out and commence doing funny things with his tongue. But he loved peeled apples. I dislike cilantro and am really tired of seeing it added as an ingredient in everything.

As long as we're doing green . . .

Halloween is new for me, too -- I want one with white!

And then there's . . . http://www.ebay.com/itm/One-Vintage-Marble-Rare-Large-German-MINT-100-Filled-Aventurine-15-16-Yum-/251996239425?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aac257641#ht_695wt_1218 and . . . http://www.ebay.com/itm/One-Vintage-Marble-Rare-Peltier-Volleyball-100-filled-w-Aventurine-83-128-/251996239420?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aac25763c#ht_677wt_1218 Jeez . . .

The Carnival kills me every time . . .

I sure do like these Winnie - - -

Now they're looking like what we call Euro sparklers but in amber (or molasses) colored glass . . .

I found one of the moss agate ones -- Craig's, I think.

Oh yes.

And a close-up --