Steph

This could come in handy.

No prob! wonderful pic! Worth the wait!

You may have the rest figured out before I can type this. Under the photobucket thumbnail, hopefully, there should be something which reads something like: [img=http://blahblahblah.etc.jpg] If you see that, you can copy it and paste it into your message. If you want to make a thumbnail for it, for faster loading, that's a little more complicated. Not hard. But more complicated.

How interested are you in keeping the full width? Photobucket would let you upload an image with that many KB. You might have to change a setting to keep it from automatically shrinking the dimension but it's doable. To get it as an attachment here, I think the KB needs to be under 450. Do you have a PC? With Windows Paint? That can be used for a quick resize. 612 KB actually sounds sort of "efficient" for an image that wide. Thus, reducing the image only a small amount (say down to 80% of original) might actually make the KB grow. If that's so, then 60% sounds like it might still be a good size and that should get the filesize under 450 KB. Or you could email it to me. LOL. And I could play with it!

Also how wide? (as wide as your computer screen?)

How large is it? How many kilobytes?

pretty nifty!

I believe yours to be American-made, Kevin. There is an on-going discussion of who would have made it, Alox or Master. Been famously seen in Alox packaging, straight from the factory, well, straight from the house of the president of the company. Also been seen in Master Cat's Eye packaging. So we would be talking mid-50's or later with the Master bags.

pop, I think I'm seeing mostly Vitros there, and a couple of Japanese marbles. the one pictured alone looks Japanese. often called a "Wales" marble because of the brand name on some of the packaging it came in.

I've seen them ID-ed before as Heaton based on the separation between the vanes. It was said that Marble Kings would join in the center. But I'm not sure if that opinion was shared by all. Also, I'm not sure whether Heaton's were amethyst. Some at least were brown. I THINK. (would love confirmation or correction on that) Modern Marble Kings were amethyst. At least some of them.

Couple of technicalities. Anacortes is in Washington. Was Anacortes given as a possibility or as the definite answer? (Do black Vitro cats come only from Anacortes is the question.) Now about the ones on the right, two candidates for 4 vane black cats are MK and Heaton. What shade is the black, like if you try to look through them at the sun or somethin'? amethyst? brown?

I have heard that Akro's true experimental marbles were larger sizes. I'm not aware that this small version has a special collectors name. I'd guess it's a Royal - company name. The larger version, the over-an-inch version is sometimes named. I thought it was sometimes called a Claudia. And then the cork version is sometimes called a Jolly Roger. Edna, could that be the way that went? But then some people just call the bigguns Blue and Orange. I think? something like that? (I reserve the right to edit this when I find the right name! LOL)

What size is yours, Gene? I think I missed that. My aquanaut statement was just me playing along and waiting for more pix. :-)

LOL. Thanks Carole. you won it?

aw, c'mon! Pix? Link? you're killing me! yeah, yeah, yeah, I could go poking around ebay but that's dangerous !

It's a TRUE beaut! I wouldn't have thought Master. Is that oxblood? aw heck, might as well mention the other one which has made me wonder. Kevin, why do you say Master on the green one. Just asking. I don't actually recognize it one way or the other.

That one is giving me a Vacor vibe. But I'm not in a position to confirm that just now.

Good deal. Glad you went for it!

It's an aquanaut helmet!

More whities and blackies. sources unclear/unknown. (click to enlarge) . . . .

Tiger Eye bag. Containing Whities. (right?) Pic posted some time ago by Al. (click to enlarge) Apologies for my first Whities pic being sort of a nontraditional style. Had the pic out for another thread and figured I'd add it while I was thinking about it. mental note: add more whities and blackies and other standards.

1) does what you quoted from me say that Alox swirls ARE WV swirls? 2) Aloxes ARE almost always lumped in with WV swirls for purposes of ID. A newbie shows a pile of swirls and the typical ID is along the lines of, "Those are called WV swirls". Even if some Aloxes might be tumbling around in the group. Steve, I know you have been concerned about that Alox entry for some time so let me reassure you. The intent of my wording is to acknowledge an erroneous ID which is generally allowed to slide and give a possible reason why it would be hard to ever correct the error -- machine origin. We go with the numbers. And the numbers for this swirl type say, "most likely from WV" with an implicit p.s. of "and we probably couldn't tell for sure if it wasn't".

!!!!! maybe even $$$$$ but definitely !!!!!

yeah, I know just enough to realize that there are some strong feelings. Fer example: This was Carl Fisher's entry in the 2008 GA alphabet marble contest. (click to enlarge) This was Margaret Zinser's entry this year. Both did well in the contest, and both were a source of tension because they were so different from mainstream glasswork.