Steph

The gob feeder was a mechanical way of dropping the right amount of glass onto the roller. It replaced the hand-gatherers and their punties.

Okay, I finally got it sort of. I know where all the money is. I know where the mistake is. What I don't know is why it's so easy for that particular problem to trick us.

This is an oldie, but one I never figured out. Getting out my paper now to try to solve it. Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

Jimmy and Joe and Kedo say not enough time. *oops*

For what it's worth, I find the errors potentially educational also. You could leave the picture but edit it to say that you have since learned that this marble -- which could be confused for CAC -- is likely not. Just a thought. We can also delete all traces if that is preferred.

P.s. slags aren't usually described as having "ribbons". If you're seeing some of the glass as taking the form of a distinct ribbon, that's one of the signs that we may be looking at a swirl. .... just a thought which might help the slag vs. swirl distinction gel ....

A bittersweet hello, Dave.

What can I say, I love adjectives almost as much as marbles.

Thanks, Scott! Richard, I know I should get it myself, but if you beat me to it, give us a review.

I view white as the base color on this one. That would take it out of slag contention for most purposes. But I see why someone might think it has a clear base ... or "clear matrix". "Matrix" is a word I have never fully understood in connection with marbles. That might be a good question for the whole room. Okay ... stop rambling, Steph .... whether that base is technically clear filled with a lot of white or white mixed with a little clear, we have a "swirl". I think it's Veiligglas.

Asian is my first thought also. Possibly Mexican. I'd guess significantly newer than your handsome plum one.

*blush some more* She really doesn't do praise well, though she appreciates it greatly. P.s., Thanks to Lou for providing us with this site. It has a lot of history. It used to be Alan's Marble Connection ... Alan being Alan Basinet AKA MarbleAlan, who left a mark on all of us before he passed away in 2012.

Grrrrr, Bumble! She sometimes moves ID requests to the general forum! To get more eyes on the unusual ones!

And one more for now ... this is the recommendation which started my current Canadian binge .... Vancouver folk-indie

... and bump ... this was specially recommended to me again today by a Canadian who saw I was interested in their music

... toward that end ... bump .....

*blush* Thank you, Bud. You're very sweet. Thank you for playing marbles with us.

Trying to learn a little bit more about Canadian music ... not a lot more since music kinda overwhelms me ... but some ..... so here is some

(Psst, you guys do realize we don't mind the questions, right? This is what we do for fun. :-) )

When you have a few months under your belt, while it's still fresh, you can make notes with pictures about what you think would be helpful for a new person trying to sort things out the first time. Eh?

It's good to hear your perspective. What you're struggling over. I sorta wanna say, "We can start a patch thread and a ribbon thread". But then my brain explodes a little because of the trouble I'd have sorting some of the marbles into patches or ribbons.

I don't think so.