Steph

Oh. Good question. I am leaning yes, but I am not 100%.

P.s., I just found out that MFC only made the purple slags for a short time, but we're talking about amber so moving right along.

A lot of people would say MFC, as a catch-all handgathered slags in the basic colors of amber, blue, green, purple and white. CAC, Akro and Peltier also made handgathered slags though, and I wouldn't know how to tell them apart. MFC is a possibility. So is CAC and Akro. (So probably is Peltier.)

It might qualify to be one of the "milk" variations. Not a buttermilk though. Here's Chuck B's description: "Buttermilks have a red band on one side, a parallel red/blue band on the other side and a translucent buttermilk yellow base, sometimes with white." http://joemarbles.com/3Marble Articles/Chuck Brandstetter/0002 Older Vitro Marbles (Tri-Lites).htm

Akro wouldn't be my first guess. It seems to have both a tail and a long seam. I don't think of those two things being together on a marble. But either one opens the door up to other possibilities than Akro. More pics?

The $1500 Alley that they're calling a Peltier Galaxy? I don't recognize the seller. Looks like they could really think they have a galaxy and have priced it accordingly.

Bumping this for Bonnie! Let's show her some blacklight photos and note the marble maker. Bonnie, Bruce's pistachios up there are Alley. Probably? Unless someone comes by and says maybe Ravenswood, assume Alley.

I'm still confused about what kind of light you're using, Bonnie. Could you go into a dark area and shine it on those lavender Jabos and take a picture of the result?

CAC

was quite edible

Gonna have a dandelion omelet and gonna pretend to like it whether I do or not. Actually have tried it a couple of times, about 5 years ago. The first time I sauted the dandelions and it was okay. The second time I forgot and it made a negative difference. At least I hope that's what made the difference. I hope it wasn't that I made the dandelions too soggy by rinsing them off, because after I took this picture I thoroughly rinsed them. Draining now. Well ... here goes .... let's try this.

First impression was Marble King, but then I saw the little bit of tunnel action at the seams. So now I'm on board with either CAC or European. If European, that's still old.

That's beautiful. And clever. It has to be contemporary.

heya Interesting question ...

Love it!

I halfway expected that. I've heard it before. But it still messes with my head because that green ribbon is so nice and thin and ribbony.

I don't know what the cell phone light is, actually. Is it white light? Is it ultraviolet? Is it something else? I think your lavender ones will glow green under ultraviolet. My best guess for the first marble in the thread is Jabo. I think all Jabo in this thread except the brown and green. I think WV swirl on that. But I wouldn't be surprised if Ron or someone came in and said Jabo on that one also.

By the way, I use a blacklight with a long tube ... I have a bulb-shaped blacklight bulb but it doesn't light vaseline glass up. Maybe it's just meant to be spooky -- not UV.

Doesn't say anything new for me. I just wanted you to have the fun of seeing the lavender Jabo's under blacklight. (UV light, not flashlight.) Much of the Jabo lavender came from Fenton Burmese art glass cullet and glows green under blacklight.

Check out those lavenders with a blacklight.

The lavender based ones are definitely Jabo. I think the last one, with the evergreeen, is also Jabo. The tan and green one in the picture with the two lavenders could possibly be Alley.

For these two, I think Master on top and I'm leaning toward Peltier on the bottom mostly because of the baseglass visible in the bottom middle view.

Center in first collage is an Akro Moss Agate. Bottom right in first collage is a handgathered slag. (handgathered, machine-rounded) Bottom left in that collage is a West Virginia swirl. Bottom center needs more views. In second collage, right center is another WV swirl. Middle marble looks a little slaggy but could be a transparent swirl, and if so then odds are it's from a WV company. Left center has several views in the collage but most are small. So more or larger views would be good. Before I see more close-ups, I see potential for it being Peltier, Vitro or Akro or even possibly a very nonbusy swirl.

That's different. I like hideyholes.

Congrats on getting your name out there as someone to call.