Steph

This is a highly unusual Peltier Rainbo, or it is a Kokomo.  

Typically Pelt Rainbos will have the ribbons change order on opposite sides.

On the top side in this view you have red on the left and white on the right.  So typically in a Peltier Rainbo, on the bottom side the white would be on the left, red on the right. 

My first thought was Alley Agate.

Not sure what being out-of-round would mean to my guess.  If I'm right about it being Alley, maybe it was dug or maybe it just slipped by quality control.  

beautiful!

That's what I would have wanted.  But with the other marbles Rick was posting ... and with the mysterious "exotic conqueror" and "fancy conqueror" names floating around ... and with my awareness of about five years of Vitro patches coming between the standard conquerors and the Tiger Eyes, I feel shaky here.

Soooooo ... with the topic fresh on my mind from another thread, I googled for exotic conquerors and found this  AAM picture.  

Talk to me about this.  Any Tiger Eyes here?   

I need to pay really good attention to whatever this turns out to be and save pix and such.  It's about time I learned about these special so-called Conquerors and such.  

Okay, I'm ready to guess here and I think it'll probably get "Exotic Conqueror" also, with special mention for that drizzle!

Crazy cool Vitro ... but I am horrible at the names from this era.  

Will wait for people who know more .....

I'm GUESSING that this one will come up as "Exotic Conqueror".  

I think this one is past Conqueror.  I don't know if it's all the way to the official Tiger Eye time.  Or if it's part of an intermediate time.  

King Tut Lost His Marbles?

Ghostly....


I think Champion.  

3 hours ago, Nantucketdink said:

Steph-would love to see the cat hiding inside something like that.  That really would be quite the surprise and a very fun discovery

I will backlight whatever Galaxies I come across!   Maybe I'll find something or maybe I'll convince myself I must have been mistaken.

I remember conversations from Land of Marbles about the stuff inside.  Even if we could find the conversations, those pictures would be gone.  But it would still be cool to have a way to search on the Wayback Machine for those lost threads.

I think there is general agreement now that it is Akro.

I have probably seen it called some name other than "Akro patch", but I don't think the name has caught on.

Or maybe some name has caught on more than I know. I'll wait with you!

I've noticed more and more marbles being called woodies.  


I remain distantly fascinated by the ebb and flow of collector names.

Collectors will come up with a name for a very specific type of marble, such as a "fruit cocktail", and then over the years more and more marbles will slide under that name.

But I've also seen it reversed.  Alley Pistachio for instance.   Lately it seems that a UV-reactive base is required to get a Pistachio ID.   When I was brand new and just trying to sort that out, I read a marble elder say that about 50% of Pistachios will have UV-reactive bases.  In the years since then that definition has tightened up.  

 

Woodie is a marble that seemed pretty exclusive when I started out.  Not to mention elusive.  I never felt sure about the definition of it.  And now I'm less sure.   

Before cat's eyes.  First half of 20th century, but I can't swear to the decade.

p.s., yes, nice to see manufacturer names!

super cute

Waiting for @Nantucketdink

No idea about exotics.  

I think this is another of the Tri-Lites known as Superior. 

 

I think that might have earned an "Elite".  

 

I don't think Vitro.

I'll say Master.

Yes, a Superior!



Older Vitro Marbles (Tri-Lites) (marbleconnection.com)

Yes.  

Maybe also a Superior?  

I disagree about taking the opaque description literally.  Something can be opaque for practical purposes, but maybe not precisely opaque when a strong backlight comes into play.  

I won't keep arguing about it.  Maybe I wasn't looking looking inside a real honest-to-gosh Galaxy when I discovered mysteries within.  But I sure thought I was looking at one. 

*backs quietly out of the door*