Steph

Do we have pix of the innards of milkies?

Good morning. I remember back when I never thought about milkies being Alley, and we did see some with diving oxblood ribbons ... I remember this in the context of discussions were people would ask us to judge from photographs if they had oxblood, and it was difficult when the ribbon dived, because the way the light played with the clear glass over the ribbon sometimes made the ox look like light was passing through it. Which stopped people from wanting to ID it as ox. But now I don't remember anything about the ribbons other than that sometimes they submerged.

Sooooo .... what did they look like before that?

The 1980's stuff looks fairly modern. The Galaxies were from the 1980's. Two other names from the 1980s were Meteors and Corsairs ... I was just reminded from a bag Galen posted way back when.

Krystal's ox looks painted on.

*chuckle for Josh*

I do so love UV.

In the pair above that is a considerable contrast, in both the color and the ribbon ends. And from your end you're seeing some of the color as more on the surface and some deeper in? Third in on this collage?

Saw some attributed to (or guessed as) Alley, which reminded me that wasn't the first time I saw them attributed to Alley, and I don't know enough about any of them. And in another conversation, about Akro Imperials being thought to be silver oxbloods, I did think of your Hy-Grade bag with the milky ones, and Hy-Grade bags in general, containing swirls ... and I wondered ... were all those swirls Akro .... or did Akro maybe buy some from Alley after all. Do you see differences between the ones you think of as Akro and the ones you think of as Alley?

Gotta wonder how patterns like that were achieved.

Will someone please tell me where I put my dug swirl sample sets? Thanks in advance.

Do we still have Akro milky oxbloods? Are they Alley now? Are some Akro and some Alley?

Definitely counted then. Sometimes it counts now.

That base glass says Asian. Well, the vanes do also!

Looking Vitro from here.

Yes! Or matching bigs and littles.

There's a cute saying I learned here. I wanted to say it yesterday but was afraid it would be taken wrong .... "You can tell a marble collector .... but you can't tell 'em much!"

Oh gosh, I'm behind on my reading. Heaton ear .... new to me .... I really gotta find where I put my swirl sample sets and see what kind of ears I have.

What a big question. Short answer for now: I usually expect more solid glass on an NLR.

In ads, Moss Agates were sometimes described as having "exquisite patterns". Would you say patches have exquisite patterns? Me neither.

This is a Moss Agate box:

Pelt Rainbos on top. I'll go Vitro on the bottom middle. Is the bottom right swirly or patchy? I can't make that out. More views would be good. Not sure what the bottom left could be ... the coloring and structure aren't clicking for me with any particular maker.

I like it. Do you?