Steph

Thank you guys for the vaseline eye candy. That's an interesting tidbit about your MFC finds, Brian.

Please everyone stop with the gotchas and poking. We all understand what the other is talking about. Let's keep it about the subject and not the people. Pretty please.

yup, adorbs

One underlying question is why some marbles seem more prone to orange peel than others. Vacor is well known for orange peel for instance.

I see two distinctions: (1) intentional versus accidental And among the intentional ways to get it: (2) oxblood from batch versus oxblood from aventurine Dave's oxblood has been intentional, albeit not from batch. What other marble makes would have made it intentionally? It's tantalizing to think Alley might have done it knowingly.

No, I haven't been checking any math.

Yes, food for thought for sure

A classic I had to use on someone today.

These are my Dali sparklers ... enhanced by Alan

What? Do I hear sarcasm? I hope! We need a sarcasm emoticon.

!!!!!!! kewlness

That looks like a painting. Swishy brush strokes.

Just to be clear in case I wasn't, the Marble Kings are Alleys. Presumably leftovers bagged by Berry Pink after he bought Alley.

What Galen said. 1940's Alleys from St. Marys like in these bags .... or Vacor Old Fashions.

Galen is right about the marbles needed some sort of numbering system. But better yet, start a new thread for new questions. Just a couple of marbles per thread. It was good to see all your marbles at once to get an overview. Now if we want to get into the nitty gritty, a new thread for new questions will cut down on confusion.

Yes, this is one I thought possibly vintage. It looks a bit like a Peltier Rainbo in this view, but I don't 100% recognize it. So ... it's interesting ..... In other views it looks more like a different style. Like a Master Sunburst. Just ..... different ...... and cool.

The Spaghettis and "flower cat eyes" are pretty. Yes, the blue is Spaghetti. Sometimes you can see big bubbles in Vacors ... I wonder if they put them there on purpose ... don't know if they can do it on purpose. But they get in there somehow.

The marble on the right here has orange peel. That is accidental. We've been discussing the causes recently. I don't see the finish on the marble on the left, but because of what I see inside, I suppose it has an iridescent finish. This marble would be a Vacor Flama. Or Vacor Flame. Some marbles get an iridescent (pearlized) finish. Some marbles get a frosty finish. Those are done on purpose. For fun.

This is an example of a cold roll (as are many of the other creases you show). This one is probably from one spot getting hung up and the rest of the marble twisting away. Then when the stuck spot got loose it was cooled of and couldn't get completely smoothed out.

Here's the thread where I asked -- http://marbleconnection.com/topic/20060-corals-and-questions-and-stuff. The discussion develops -- some of the marble ID's from the first page are wiped away and changed on the second.

Ravenswood, I believe. I was calling them corals up until last week. But I asked about them and was told some of the "coral guys" don't call 'em that -- reserving the name for marbles of a different color. But if you don't call them coral, I don't know if they have any other name.

Yes. .... and fun article.

Don't know what made me think of this ... but .... Statue of Liberty before she turned green: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037582/The-copper-Statue-Liberty-appeared-New-York-1880s.html... some old artwork.