Steph

Anyway, nice acquisition.

I just have a general feeling about large Masters being hard-to-find. Can't remember right now which styles that applied to.

NICE. What's the verdict these days on how unusual that kind are?

Fantastic! Dream presentation. I'm settling for clearance-priced school pencil boxes with sloppy white labels. That set is museum worthy.

First step ... find all the Vacors. I reached for this box and it's not as full as I thought. Now I have to remember my other Vacor hiding spaces. (That comment made me think about a hole-in-the-wall Mexican cantina. )

For sure!

Ooooh .... authentic, old-timey brick guts. That IS sad. But still kinda cool.

So much color!

@ " Most ladies like the cowboy pic " ... the asparagus is sexy too ....

Wow. I remember as a kid wanting to find arrowheads, but that's as far as that dream went. That first piece -- the Bird Stone? -- is astounding.

"Sprue". GREAT word. I NEED to remember that.

Oooooooh

I'm probably ready to take a break from Jabos ... maybe I'll pull out my Vacors next.

thank you

very interesting!

Uh oh. This is bad. Somebody stop me. Now that I've given myself permission to stop discarding, I pull out my marbles just to enjoy them ... and what are my thoughts? "How about instead of trying to have 8 of everything, I pick the three best and let the others go?" Bad thoughts! Bad thoughts! Of course hubby will be glad that I'm getting addicted to downsizing, but somebody stop me!

That looks like a painting .... appropriately.

It's too bad that "moss agate" has become minimized as a name. Akro was proud of them.

Basically the sort is done! Done! DONE! DONE! Muwaha! I still have some JABO-ing and DAS-ing to do ... with a little bit of Sammy's Mountain Marbles-ing, of course. But now it's mostly putting them in boxes with the right ID's. *deep breath* *happy sigh* Now all my pretties are in easy reach.

My very limited understanding says that different colors of copper-based sparkly stuff went in (lutz or goldstone or aventurine or whatever it could be called) and that led to different colors coming out of the furnace -- including different shades of what we call oxblood. In the olden days they had a lot of different names for the different shades. Representing different kinds of animal bloods (which they knew about up close and personally) or sometimes less gruesome names, such as peach bloom, crushed strawberry, crimson and liver. Sooooo ... that covers some of the different opaque shades which came out. In your photo, your blue-gray is not looking opaque to me but maybe it could still be connected with the lutz they used .... and with that my conjecture and stalling ends and I wait for correction, clarification, additional info from someone who knows!

(with thanks to Darla)

I love errors so much .... good thing .... somebody needs to, eh?

Jabo guts! .... I took 113 pictures of them this morning ... so I have all manner of close-ups for future diagnostic purposes! lolol