Steph

Oooooh.

4G? Well inside the Arctic Circle is VERY cool. No pun intended. How close are you to the bears?

I don't have any more guesses. I have just sorta given you a nutshell version of my thoughts about the tiny patches. Bottom line: Long been fascinated, but never got a resolution. I always have my eye out for more info on them.

Some of the other marbles look newer (Jabo, from after 1990), but with at least one other nice Master I am really liking Master for the red one. It's worth AT LEAST a winter mint.

I keep having visions of what I would want to do if I could do photoshop! For instance ... design a dream marble. Or stretch and twist a handful of Peltier NLR's into a bouquet of flowers. Okay ... maybe it would take more than just knowledge of Photoshop to make my bouquet of Pelt flowers.

I LOVE newbie descriptions! So imaginative before all the "correct" terms are learned. (and I'll vote Master )

Teeny Masters are supposedly super rare. Here are my peewees from two Rosenthal boxes. I think I've seen the Rosenthal box with red in them also. I'm not saying I think that's what yours are. Just that I've been intrigued by little white based peewee patches for a long time ... and I've never been totally sure that I figured out who made mine. Much less what all companies made similar. .... I wanted mine to be Alley for the longest time, and I'm still not sure that they weren't made at the Sistersville site, after Mr. Alley moved to a new site. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/20413-for-what-companies-did-rosenthal-jobber/?do=findComment&comment=178669

Ding ding ding! ... I think you have a winner here, Bo! These look like yellow jackets to me. Except that I've never seen this variation!

Bo, I think the one on the left here might be one of those fancy conquerors. Orrrr it could be a special Tiger Eye. Hopefully someone else can say. And the pronounced clearness on the other is definitely different. Belongs in the category of oddball Vitros:

Agreed.

I called my stepmother today ... the funeral was on Monday and her kids stuck around a few extra days. I knew everyone would be gone by today. So I called. Was worried we wouldn't know what to say, but it was good.

I called my stepmother today ... the funeral was on Monday and her kids stuck around a few extra days. I knew everyone would be gone by today. So I called. Was worried we wouldn't know what to say, but it was good.

Oh, one fun thing .... look at it underwater ... see if that helps accentuate and clarify the action inside.

Even if the picture doesn't do it justice, I know what you're talking about. I too have struggled with capturing the insides of these "plain" marbles ....

(I think they're American.)

Is there fire inside? A glow when the light just passes through the white -- making sure that you aren't accidentally getting color coming in from the red? It would be good to show us both cutlines or both ends of the patch. My first thought was to say Akro. Because that's what is usually answered with those tiny patches. But if you have glow through the white, then you might have itty Peltier Acme Realers.

It's lovely. The structure is Master if vintage or Asian if modern.

Actually this sounds familiar to me. The marble inside a marble. Like a red marble inside a gold marble. Or some such combination. I think you may have a Master clearie there. (That's what the tapering onionskin shape makes me think of.)

What a great story! It did remind me of those people we hear about on the news now being locked up for years as spies and I say I have no pity on them because they should have known better .... but now I have to have pity on them because you almost was one.

so beautiful

Oooh. The size increases Jabo possibilities. So now I'm between Jabo and Alley. What other kinds of marbles did you acquire it with?