Steph

Can't get to LOM. Anyone here know if this is temporary? Or just my problem?!

haha. That almost makes sense since one end of the marble did get spurted out first. lol. But no way do I want to start dwelling on that. As I noted when I wrote "top" and "bottom", it's relative. If orienting the marble helps the person study it, then that is great. It helps me. But you don't have to orient it the same way I do. If you do it differently, I will still respect you in the morning.

Lately it's been brought to my attention that opal could mean a number of things. I KNEW that, but didn't think about. For instance, on a contemporary marble board, "opal" is completely different from the "opalescence" we say we see in a vintage marble. Pretty google opal picture, just coZ! lol

Backlighting is fun. Not sure but it seems more like Vitro to me. I'm a little confused by the use of the description "opal". I think I may not be fully appreciating what you are seeing. My loss!!!!

LOL. Beat down the snowman. I can so picture that. Too funny.

I'm jealous! What a great assortment! Is the mystery marble a contemp?

Happy Valentine's Day back to you.

It's in the archives. It reinforces the impression that most corals are considered Champs. fwiw, it also has the bag which I thought was/might be Alleys. http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=12426

I'm mostly afraid to anything eggyolk. I think the oxblood tricolors are from a later era than the mibs which usually get tagged as eggyolk. whichever ones those are. p.s., I sent Lou a note about your username. :-)

Thanks to everyone for the pix. :-) David, are you ruling out Champion as a source of Corals? I had been under the impression that Champ was currently considered the main source of Corals. I thought that Alley might have made at least some variation on corals, but usually I see them attributed to Champ.

That's okay Speed Racer. We need more brag threads so don't be modest. I think I see the ox too. The mib is from the era of oxen tricolors so that's not surprising. If it's only a stray strand maybe it is a byproduct of the red colorant or maybe it's leftover from a different run. [edit: but the more I look the more it does seems as if there might be more in/over/under the red ribbon. Some nice rich color in there.]

Have a great one Ant! Looks like you already got some birthday marbles!

Why the heck you bury this in Marble ID! [click click move forum click confirm thank you] That's a handful! Yummy.

Some of the 1" Jabo classics had practically identical motion to some of the Vitro Parrots. Hint hint. lol. Oxblood parrots would be da bomb!

do ya play for mibs?

sounds good to me.

Gotcha!

Thanks Ric. What do you mean by not the "best" example? Do you mean not typical? or?

Do you see one at Joemarbles? If it's there I'm being blind. (which has happened before)

Anyone have an Alley coral? The only pic I recall offhand of a possible Alley coral is hidden in a mesh bag. Not much to go on for any sort of generalization. Would love to see another. Thanks.

Bottomed out! lol OMG looks like it goes halfway up your door! We didn't get that much snow! Some, but not that much. But we did have a pet-related adventure in the front yard this morning. I went out to shovel and heard a loud frantic call from the thorny bushes up against our porch. I couldn't tell for sure if it was a cat or a large bird. But eventually we managed to extricate a kitten. A bushy tailed black kitten, maybe a few months old. Fed him, watered him, dethorned him, found him a home. What a rush. Our grown boy cats weren't happy about it but everyone is settled down now.

Pretty sure that page is Bill Kirk's brainchild. Don't wanna take credit for it. I posted a response to one of his pix just to show appreciation. Haven't contributed anything else . . . yet. But funny thing - I just met another marble collector through facebook. A friend of my husband's from his hometown. Just chatting and marbles came up. So I sent her that link. . . . and one to our recent stone marble thread here. She likes mineral spheres. :-)

I understand your reluctance to post the pix Sue, but I really appreciate them. Pretty big difference , , , "obvious" , , , now that you point it out! By the way, a question about this auction was posted at GA. I invoked your name as someone who could tell 'em more than I was able to. I guess I could just post a link over to here. But I've already posted forty eleven times in that thread so I'll leave it to you to comment if you choose.

oh wow that's brilliant!