Steph
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very interesting indeed
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I _think_ they're still in business. -
sweet pic .... Meteorites sounds fascinating.
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Nice! That's a lot of color, especially on the right. I don't remember ever seeing that color combination before.
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I love marble mail! DAS Spring Time Run --- April 19
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Thanks, fellas.
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Check out this thread .... you might get a "Confederate" ID for some of your marbles. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/23646-peltier-confederates-vs-gray-goats/
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The lime green is pretty. I don't know that I would call it a different type. I"m more of a "lumper" these days than I used to be. (Lumping marbles together.)
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Sending out an SOS for pictures ... and a general discussion of Confederates and Gray Coats. Thanks! How much variety is there in either style of Pelt?
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I wouldn't take that site for ID's. They can't tell NLR's from Rainbos and how many different combos are they calling "Confederate Gray Coats"? I'm really sure a Confederate is one style and a Gray Coat is a different style. And they don't have as much variety as all those that this person is putting under the same name. I"m gonna start a thread in the main chat area asking for pics and opinions.
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Thanks, Ron. Start building your alphabet, Joe. That's a fun game, to get a whole set of letters. I once had a nice cursive S and I didn't save it. How silly was that.
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Green, pink, & white beauty. Any ideas on ID?
Steph replied to Mr Meteorite's topic in Marble I.D.'s
Bump ... since I can't answer. -
Yes, Pelt. Rainbos. I don't know a nickname for them.
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Those are pretty Rainbos. They are not grey coats or graycoats or however it might be spelled. Grey coats are NLR's with opaque white bases. There is a Rainbo with a Civil War name -- the Confederate. That's not a Confederate either. Edit: pretty sure. Maybe someone can find pictures. Or maybe I can if no one else does.
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Gorgeous marbles, Ron. That's an interesting question, Dan. I think you can find swirls which are practically twins ... and companies could have distinctive traits like the shepherd's hook of a Cairo Novelty. I had a group of swirls where the ribbons looked like they formed flowers. But was there anything deliberate about it of just what happened sometimes when a stream of glass a certain width fell a certain height? Controlling it to be exact matches? I don't think so.
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Those are hard. I once made a collage of all the white on practically black marbles which had come from different West Virginia swirl companies. I was trying to figure out some way that I could identify and learn differences so I could ID marbles like yours. I never figured it out. I can't do any better than just saying "West Virginia swirl".
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It's gorgeous! We might get a three week spring before summer comes burning in.
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going with Jabo. No comment on slingshot ammo
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What's this beauty called? One of my favorites.
Steph replied to Mr Meteorite's topic in Marble I.D.'s
I think probably Alley Agate. If it were bigger I could be more definite. -
How do i positively identify Oxblood?
Steph replied to Mr Meteorite's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
I think we may have been posting at the same time. -
Not a Sparkler. My first thought was Akro Tri-Color Agate. But now I'm on the fence wondering if it could be a Vitro Tri-Lite.
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What's this beauty called? One of my favorites.
Steph replied to Mr Meteorite's topic in Marble I.D.'s
Good chance that is an Alley Agate. Is it normal size? -
How do i positively identify Oxblood?
Steph replied to Mr Meteorite's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
That said, there are some pretty nice oxblood pictures in this thread: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/23022-oxbloods-show-me-some-please/ -
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It does kinda look like oxblood. I'm just not familiar with oxblood being on that particular marble so I think it's probably red. Since it looks so much like oxblood it would be pretty hard to try to explain the difference. How you can see some white coming through underneath the red is a sign of it not being ox. Oxblood is especially opaque. Sometimes it can be tricky when it's very thin or when there's oxblood and red together. But if you can see through it to some other color below, then assume not ox.
