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Glad you like N. C. -- I was born and mostly raised there, in a tiny town near the coast. Hope you get out to the Outer Banks every now and then!

What Steph said. And probably Akro. Nice one!

I know, that's what has got me stuck . . . maybe "pastel baseballs?" Because they have the structure of baseballs, but lack the varied coloring of most rainbos . . . For instance, in my Pelt "pastel baseball" corral, I don't include those with a variegated base, like Chuck's next-to-last one in the right corner. I include only those with a base glass of a single solid color. Depending on the ribbon color, they can be pretty striking -- like the light lavender and red. But I have a few of those I don't know what to do with though, because the base color isn't really what most people would consider pastel. One is the exact color of tomato juice and another is the exact color of Dijon mustard, both with very thin white baseball lines. What's that about?? I love Pelts . . .

What nice nines . . . wow!

Ah-ha! Thank you . . . .

FWIW, this is the definition I've always used. Never thought about a base color other than white, though. But I'd certainly be willing to entertain the notion. I have a few, Darla, that sounds like yours = a light lavender with very thin red lines, a pale green -- don't remember the line color -- a light yellow with red lines, etc. Curious to see what others think.

Some think that CAC's guineas, cobras, and whatnot were hand gathered / prepared . . .

All I've heard about the date for the use of automatic gob feeders seems to point to 1927 or 1928. In Henry Hellmers' published recollection, though, he says that while he was at Akro "Machine-made marbles came about 1926 and we developed new colors for them."

Yes. Not that it would stop me from buying it. But not at that price!

Mine too! Nice Pelts.

Just butting in on the hybrid thing. Although I agree that you can get a (reactive) dark line where two colors (like green and yellow) meet . . . that looks like it's really red there -- at least on my monitor. If so, red is a primary color, meaning you can't get it from blending. It just is. (Along with the other 2 primary colors, yellow and blue.) So to my mind that marble is a hybrid, in that it has two of the normal Popeye colors (green & yellow) plus a third, probably deliberately introduced one -- red. I don't think the length of each color in the ribbon is an indicator, in this sense. Picture three tubes of toothpaste side by side, and one runs out before the others . . . or, in the case of a marble like this, the angle of the shear or the color submerging into the base glass (for any number of crazy reasons) could explain it . . . As an aside, green is a secondary color -- meaning you get it from blending two of the primary colors together -- yellow and blue. If she's ordering storage containers I think we got her.

That's the name!

I have one of the bananas in yellow glass too, Steph. Got mine from Alan B., back in the day. I seem to remember him saying that all of the ones that he'd seen / handled had come from the same person. I think there were fewer than 20 or so? Maybe a serious Pelthead would know more . . .

Great thread! One I haven't seen before - - - in the archive?

I keep coming back to this one and staring at the absent fly spaces . . . how did he do that . . .

Maybe he hasn't been keeping up with things.

Why did I say wood there?? Slipped a gear I guess . . . I'm old, it happens sometimes . . .probably thinking of soot . . .

I think the blue-tinted base glass bananas are foreign, too. Awhile ago I saw some and bought a few to see if they were Pelts, like the seller was saying, but the base glass isn't quite as clear -- and there were very faint radiating wrinkles at the poles (near the points of each banana), which usually means foreign. But you have to look pretty closely.

Doesn't look like a Champ furnace to me, but I don't know what it is . . .

I'm not that good with patches, but I have a "Bimbo" on a white-based Pelt that has the same super-straight (green) patch. Whatever that may or may not mean. But it might not be that long. Time for a memory refreshment. Good puzzle piece, like 99marbles sorta said. I sure do like the little blue tracing color there . . .

Seriously nice photo, Bob!

I can't tell you how much the 100 cat pictures improved my day.

The darkness that seems to be blooming from the pontil is probably carbon residue from the wood thing (technical term) that was used to smooth over the pontil after it was heated . . . Occurs on some but not others.

Cerise . . .