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I like that too!

Great pics. I didn't know transitionals (of any pontil type)were associated with the confetti and lightning strikes . . . interesting. Any more info on the dump site? I remember Alan B. saying he thought the confettis and lightning strikes were Chinese, or at least were found in China, but I didn't have enough sense at the time to ask him what he knew about their find spot - - -

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I totally agree. Winnie, I don't think you have trouble communicating! Well, no more than me, anyway!

No. None. But nearly all show a (sometimes very subtle) cut mark.

The following is entirely speculative, and not necessarily my opinion, but . . . might as well throw it in here, since it's come up . . . In a recent (within the past couple of years) and somewhat controversial book on Arnold Fiedler, a suggestion is made that guineas and cobras (but not necessarily all striped transparents) were made by hand by Fiedler himself, as a way to show off the range of colors he (and by extension Christiansen Agate) had. Hand-gathered / prepared (I'll leave that call to my betters) and rounded by machine. Kind of like his "thing." Not necessarily for mass production. We don't really have any paperwork from CAC (and if Steph hasn't seen a CAC ad I don't know who would have . . . ), but I have the impression that cost-effectiveness was not necessarily CAC's driving force. Or maybe it was, but not in the way we are accustomed to think. They probably decided to set themselves apart from Akro and Peltier with their fabulous colors -- some their own and some from Cambridge Glass -- but they could use such expensive chemicals, etc., only so long, and possibly put themselves out of business doing so. I think we all mourn CAC's short life!

Me too. But I was just looking for things I don't have but want, regardless of my feeble ability to pay (no blue galaxy! no silver surfer!).

Yes.

Great comparison pic.

??? I don't see anything either. Not even a hundred $$s worth, much less four. But I'm old, I could be blind.

Do the MK ones look like the Master ones? Two-seam-wise?

I think you're probably right

As far as I know, Master. There are some that are swirly, too, but I've been told the swirly ones are Champion. FWIW.

I hoped you'd slip back in, John -- I'm pretty much converted to the idea . . .

Always a good approach! I tend to think a lot (maybe too much) about all that too, but even that is enjoyable as long as I remind myself occasionally that some things can't always be neatly sorted, the way I would like! About slags that could be hand-gathered but not have "nines" -- I read somewhere (don't remember where now) that at some point Akro may have decided to set its hand-gathered slags apart from the others by having their gatherers eliminate the nine pattern and try for more of an all-over swirly pattern. I have no idea if that happened or not, but it stuck in my head, and I've gotten a few fine big (for me) swirly slags -- bigger and with more complicated patterning than the usual machine-made ones -- that seemed to fit that idea. Not saying it's true. Just that "big complicated swirly hand-gathered" has become a category for me over the years. But that may have nothing to do with reality.

Wish I'd thought of that . . .

Glad you didn't originate this one, Chuck! Whoever did was obviously stretching things to include "uncooked bacon" as a color. Nu-uh. Not goin' there. Gotta have brown & crispy for me!

What he said! Thanks, Cheese . . . I suppose we should stop using the words "blend" and "blended" where we're talking about where one color meets another in glass. "Bleed" is no better. So, for example, when one color meets another, (at least) two possibilities exist = (1) a chemical reaction between the two colorants (say a Popeye blue and yellow), which can produce who knows what, but is usually a thin dark (or discolored) line, or (2) the yellow glass overlaps the blue (or vice versa), producing the appearance of green between the two. In other words, an overlap can produce the same color we're used to seeing in pigment blending . . . although not necessarily. Maybe it would sometimes produce a wider discolored band. Probably where all those extra browns come from in a bunch of corkscrew color combos I have. Huh. Uh-oh. Technically, that should probably be called a hybrid. You know, like a horse + a donkey = a mule . . . a hybrid. Never mind. Pretend I didn't say that. Unhear it. Unsee it. So . . . is this the deal? Some Popeyes with three colors could be (1) hybrids, as we define them today (having a third, apparently deliberately-introduced color that is NOT a "reaction" color, regardless of width or position), or (2) not hybrid, because the third color is produced by overlapping one color over another, or (3) not a hybrid but instead having a third (or more) "reaction" color where two differently-colored glasses meet -- I dunno. Whaddaya think?

Why in the world would anyone think that's a Pelt?

Eeeeek. I was hoping to skate right over that. I don't believe so, not exactly, but I don't think I could explain it -- maybe because I'm not entirely sure how it works. Except to say that sometimes I think it's an overlapping rather than a blending? Here's where I hope the Real Glass People will come in. Migbar? Mike? Brian? Somebody? Get me outta this hole?

Also being fairly disturbed -- but you knew that -- I have "Pulp Fiction" high on my list as well. Probably at #3, behind #1 "Zulu" and #2 "Run Silent, Run Deep." Hanging around up there too is "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia." Maybe I've said too much . . .

Isn't New Madrid in Mo? They had a little shaker there some time ago . . .

First, I seriously like that cabinet you built. Second, you picked the right name. Killer marbles!

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I don't think the position of it matters if it's a primary color. In fact, the first hybrid Popeye I ever owned sneaked up on me. Sort of early on in my machine-made collecting, I'd just agreed with myself to get "one of each" of the most usual Popeyes, and bought my first -- a red and green one. Months passed, and I'd just gotten a good loupe and was re-looking-at some mibs, and discovered that snuggled up underneath and between the green & red was a thin stream of pure yellow. Coulda knocked me over with that feather people use to knock other people over with . . . Anyhow, I'd say that regardless of position, if the extra color is primary (red, yellow, or blue) the Popeye is a hybrid. If the extra color is secondary (green, orange, purple) or more, and it's between the two main colors, you're probably looking at a blend, depending on what the two main colors are. So . . . if you have a blue and yellow Popeye and there's a thread or ribbon or band of green between the blue and yellow, you're likely looking at a blend (blue + yellow = green). Just to make it interesting, if, on the other hand, it's NOT between the two colors, but borders only the blue, or only the yellow, you might then be looking at a hybrid, too.