Steph

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.

Still very nice.

I guess the answer to that has to be "yes", since all I see is slag there. But I'm not up to explaining the finer points of slags. I'm just at the "know 'em when I see 'em ... usually" stage.

I hear ya. The fried marble pix I've been looking at look more fractured and reflective. Here's hoping they turn out to be a treasure.

While I'm in the neighborhood, some Peltier feathering borrowed from Ray Tetrick's facebook wall today.

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.

Big thumbs up

?? 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.