Steph

Current master list: Current combined list: agate, agates, aggie, aggies, allies, alley, alleys, bamboozler, blackies, blockbuster octopus, blockbusters, blood alley, bloodies, blue alley, blue candy stripes?, bolders, bowlers, bullseyes, chaney alleys, chinas, Chinas, chinee, Chinees, clayies, clearies, cloudies, combos, commies, commons, cornelian, crockie, crockies, crokers, crystals, doughie, doughies, ducks, Englishies, flinties, glass agate, glass agates, glassies, halfies, houses, kimmies, klogknocker (sp? clogknocker?), immies, knicks, man, megs, men, mibbs, mibs, middles, miggle, miggs, migs, milkies, mossies, nickers, pee-wees, peedabs, peewee's, peewees, perfects, pimples, plasters, plumpers, pot-eyes, potashes, potteries, pures, reallies, red eyes, red moonstone?, ring men, ringers, robin's eggs, root beer cleary, shooters, steelies, stony alleys, sugar-tops, taw, 3 line cleary, tiger-eyes, tolley, Tom, Tom troller, white alley, -- including all the spelling variants and singulars and plurals even if that may seem silly -- just in case -- the two question marks so far are because I wasn't sure whether the color was part of the name or just a description -- some names may not represent what we use the words for now -- for example "blackies" may be different from Vitro's version Current foreign terminology: gudes (Brazil), Torrah (Africa), bowls (England), bolitas (South America), "kicking the marbles" (China) Geordie dialect, from Tyneside in NE England: Liggies is an abbreviation of lignum vitae. Boodies were clay marbles. The penka was a large marble (up to 2.5 inches, used as a target). Other terms used include marvils, muggles, alleys, parper, scudder and taws. Blood alleys had red in the glass and snot alleys had white. A pop-alley was a pop bottle stopper used as a marble. Source: A dictionary of North-east dialect 3rd Edition - Northumbria Press.

1926 "ring men" "perfects" Gotta add those -- and Geordies' names -- to the master list.

Alan pointed out this terminology once upon a time and I forgot it. Happened upon it while browsing for our old Akro references. I'm always curious about what the big marbles were used for. "ring men"

tody What a pretty bird: https://www.google.com/search?q=tody&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=923&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4yLPbkNvKAhVC5CYKHdVpArsQ_AUIBigB

LOL. Fun. Do you give tours of your workshop?

Gotta go with CAC. Pretty sure the wide majority opinion is that MFC didn't make red slags.

Just watched a few seconds of Happy Days and was struck by how bright the colors were and that seemed wrong. So then I razzed myself -- "Do you think they didn't have colors in their homes in the 50's and 60's? Do you think they lived in black and white?" But eventually I realized that I was correct -- the bright colors were wrong. I live in the kind of home the Cunninghams lived in. And it is dim! Even if we had all the light fixtures in the house on we couldn't get it that bright without it being in the middle of a summer day with the curtains open.

We just finished the first season of The Last Man on Earth. It was often rather painful. But it was still quite fun.

Winnie came through for us. She took a picture of the more common variety -- three colors but the vane pairs are adjacent: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/20993-calling-all-cats-eyes/?p=193417

Thanks, Winnie. You're a dear.

Thanks. (Yes, the ones in post #5 were Cairo for sure.)

Ron ... are you commenting on just the name? Or on Jerry's marble also? Is that Cairo? Is mine?

:)

Here are the two kind of cross-throughs I meant there: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/20993-calling-all-cats-eyes/?p=185640 Winnie's first group has one cross-through (the white vanes). Her second group are three-way cross throughs like yours. Both are special. People don't often take pictures of the common ones with no cross-throughs. But I put in a special request for some pics. And I know I can find or take some if no one else thinks that's a fun idea. (I have a love-hate relationship with cameras ... I have to psych myself up to use them. )

Special request. Would anyone like to show some love for some plain old six-vane Asian cat's eyes with colors being in three adjacent pairs? To give contrast to our cross-through photos?

Got a surprise when I looked at the picture name.

Are we sure it's Master? If it is, that's such a keeper, Caroline. And if it's not, it's still a keeper. Could it possibly be a muted Sparkler? White, green, tan, yellow, pale blue, orange, in a crystal clear base? (Do I see a dark brown also?) That's a just plain amazing marble.

Exceptional specimen.

Nice match on the colors. The other marble is a probably a Vitro All Red. If that's orange enough and not red, it could turn into a Tiger Eye. The three-way cross-through is a special one. It's one of the collectible cat's eyes. (Most Asian cat's eyes have three pairs of colors adjacent to each other. When one of the pairs crosses through that's good. When all three cross through that's even better.)

Is that blue tracer a different shade from the "usual"? Or rather ... how many shades of blue might we find in tracers. That's more pale and aqua than I have come to expect.

No idea here

Does look kinda snottie ... I don't see that shade in the CAC's Mibstified posted. Minty flavored mystery boogers!

More treasures. Charming pictures. Thanks for sharing. And that picture of St. Marys makes for some nice marble-related history, too. Lots of marbles made there.

Interesting color striping in that first view. I remember also thinking it was an Akro when I first saw it. These present views might not have made me think Akro. Not seeing either cork or patch structure at the moment. Wonder if it is a "messed up cork"?