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Steph

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  1. Marble King St. Marys cat's eye in the middle of the first photo.  

    The green one in the middle of the second photo also looks like a Marble King.

    Alley on the white and black highlighted in the last photo. 

    I like the red, white and black Akro cork.  


    I think Jabo on the largest marble.

  2. I have some happy memories of marbles from childhood.  That led me to purchase a few marbles on eBay.  An antiques seller told me they weren't what people like to collect though.   They were Jabo classics which had been deceitfully presented.  

    That spurred me  learn about vintage marbles.  

  3. 1 hour ago, I'llhavethat1 said:

    @Steph what are your thoughts on these?  Single color, bubbly base glass (which already looked to me that way from the first pics).

    Pelt Bananas? I don't know much about these but would love to see some other pics


    They could be Master's version of the banana.   The colors are right for Master.  

  4. I also think Christensen.  I remember seeing such a marble being ID-ed as a blue lace.  And I remember there being an argument about that -- a suggestion that the esteemed person who ID-ed it may have labeled it wrong.    That maybe the striped transparent version those colors was the only thing which should be called blue lace.  

    But I also would bet that the name has stuck by now and that you can fairly call it a blue lace. 



    .... I am curious to hear what those who are more well-versed in CAC's than I would call it these days .... 

  5. Bruce, back around 2008, it was mostly about the color, and it was considered acceptable for them not to glow, and I remember one conversation where Ron said that it was about 50-50 whether they would glow.   I don't know what the "rules" were before then ... maybe the 50-50 was a temporary loosening of the rules, or maybe it was a step along the way to the current standard.  but as far as I know the current standard is that it needs glow.

    I don't know if the keepers of the name require that the marble be an Alley.   My memory is a little more fuzzy on this aspect, but I seem to recall a time when it was considered possible that a Pistachio could have been made by Ravenswood too.  



    So, yes, there's a difference between "Pistachio" and pistachio-colored glass.  Even Alleys get segregated that way.   I'd describe the Akros and Pelts as "pistachio-colored glass" even if they did glow.  

    One more note:  it's not just the base which needs to be right to earn the name Pistachio from purists.   I have some UV-reactive pistachio-colored-glass Alleys with medium-shade brown swirls instead dark brown/black.  I call those "nice Alleys" because I think they have to have the dark ribbons to qualify as Pistachios.  
     

  6. Points for trying, chocobogreens!   I don't see any Christensens though.   The top right might be an Alley Pistachio.   I think these days folks are insisting that the base light up under blacklight for it to be a Pistachio ... does yours light up?  

  7. It's a machine made marble, so the marks wouldn't be pontils.  (A pontil is where the metal punty was attached in the process of making a handmade or partially handmade marble.)

    The marks do look like bubbles.

     

    I would say yes to WV swirl.   Alley is a type of WV swirl ... and it's a good candidate for this marble.  

     

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