Steph

Those orange wirepulls are luscious.

Hi there, my French Facebook friend! Welcome. I love hearing about the marbles you find in your part of the world.

We stayed at around 6 inches while the rest of the country got dumped on. Then got up to about 40 with gentle rain and was able to see most of our yard. Just a little snow left. Now this. This is from overnight and it's still coming. Don't think it's supposed to let up until tomorrow.

Thanks!

Top picture is a cutline, yes? What does the other cutline look like?

my first thought is Master

seems a good guess

You got some wonderful coverage. I'm glad to see how well-received the exhibit was.

For the big ones I'm inclined to say Marble King. For smaller ... I'd have a hard time deciding between MK and Bogard.

"Taw" is said "Toy"? I never knew that!

noooooooooooo

Our virtual run maker is back! Thanks for the update.

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?