Steph

I think the blue is a slag, but it doesn't look like a Peltier. Peltiers are famous for having a "feathering". Not all Pelt slags did, but that's the sign that we look for to identify a Pelt in the wild. Ray Tetrick posted these on facebook today ... they show the iconic feathering.

My first thought is "fried marbles". Clearies. They were a big fad in the 1960's. But maybe I'm wrong and that will turn out to be something more interesting inside.

I kinda thought so too ... that the 2nd one might not have as many Peltier markers as the first but side by side with the first it looked related.

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?? You can't add more photos to a new post? (I think there's a limit on how much you can post in a single post, but can you start over in a new post?)

Hi! Never heard of "butterfly" before, but now that I have I like it!

That sounds good to me. There was something about the texture of the white that made me cross my eyes. European sounds like a good explanation for it.

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Impressive is the word. Overwhelmed at planning all that out ahead.

Could be.

Then just based on the pix, I'll stick with four slags to go with the cat, but the differences in the shades are kinda interesting.

The one on the left has a bit of drizzle so we could be looking at the tail of a handgathered marble there.

The one on the right? Is that a transparent red base? Is the swirl white? I see a slight yellow cast but am not sure if that means anything.

Cherry drops. One cat's eye and four slags?

*waves at Alyce*

I was able to briefly study a group of marbles that came from a dump in Shanghai. And I can't swear to it, but the way I recall it, all of the swirls when the "wrong" way. (There were more in addition to these, but I don't have as clear of pix of them. Still I think all went the wrong way.) Never learned whether it was a generic garbage dump or a glass factory dump but this is the main inspiration of my idea that maybe in China they had operations set up opposite of how Americans did it.

Nice pic, That1.

I think so. It's so full of white that the white we would normally see coiling inside is busting out onto the surface, so the spectacular "wrong" coiling should really be compared to the innards of a normal slag. [Insert photo here.] And then it finishes off at the top with a little tail. ... Is that what you mean ... or am I projecting?

John, I may not be understanding about your green one. I feel like I'm seeing a "proper" 9 and tail on that one. Small, but going in the expected direction.

Ohhhh ... "Leighton" ... I didn't consider that. That's a loaded name. There are German handmade slag-like marbles which used to be called Leighton. And there are American handmades which actually did come from Leighton companies, in the 1800's to maybe early 1900's. Just slightly overlapping with the beginning of the M.F. Christensen period. But they're outside my comfort zone. So I'll get the popcorn. (p.s., I question the bottom purple one being MFC ... but I better shush now and wait for other comment and enjoy my popcorn)

I do not recognize that as MFC. Opaque yellow with white? I do not recognize that combo at all. Not for MFC. If it is handgathered, my guess would be Asian.

Shell, I'm not sure about Zebra on yours. Looks like blue base with white ribbons. I don't know what name that would be though, so maybe I'm being too rigid to require the base to be white. Maybe others have decided to include it in the Zebra umbrella and I missed it! Richard, the Pelt seams can be tricky to find when the thing is swirly. And the ribbons can be hard to count. But somewhere in there there need to be four (or six) separate ribbons. The other possibility is that it's an Alley with basically one ribbon that might occasionally be broken up by dipping into the base.