Steph

I already have two of Felicia's bags, so I'll sit this one out. to give someone else a chance to see how neat they are. p.s., here's that pic again from murmelwelt.de which the bags remind me of.

mmmm, nice ox. I'm not confident that I'm seeing the colors or structure correctly on the mystery marble. The inner partition looks like it could be Master but I can't personally rule Akro out at the moment.

Sort of a bump, sort of a blink Coz yes, sometimes Dustin loses points in his total score. How is that? Overnight he lost 6 points. Went from 2967.01 down to 2960.69.

Kevin, I withdraw any semi-automatic Akro call I made for yours based on ox. Whatever part of my call was based on pix others posted of Akros in those colors, that would stand, but objections based on ox, not so much. I see more and more ox floating around aqua glass. So much that now it seems like it could be an accident associated with that color. Yours is an awful lot of ox but stray amounts of ox near aqua glass seem almost natural now. (or maybe it's part of the red, or a mix or whatever, point is my previous objection is withdrawn)

Bet Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater's wife would have had a different tale to tell . . .

Steve, he's not 50. He's 49.95 + tax. Have a great day Lou!

Cool Craig. Thanks. It would be interesting to hear what Kathy thinks. David, here's what google gives about S.A. De C.V.: And another site gives a quick translation as "Variable Capital Company"

The minty/pistachio-y green corner of my dug Pennsboro Alley box fluoresces nicely. If I understand correctly, some of Ravenswood's pale greens will also.

Here are a couple of boxes from Mexico. First of their kind for me. Any thoughts? Ebay item 140331707292 Item 140331708508 A couple of pix from the first listing:

They appear to have oxblood. ??

lol. It doesn't show well in this scan, but both of these marbles have the striped frit that the big confetti from the auction has. . . . . . These marbles were dug in a Shanghai dump. I know there was dispute about the origin of the more slaglike marbles which were dug with them but I don't recall argument about the frit mibs. Maybe I'm only remembering the parts I liked from the discussion. LOL

One more pic, which I like because it shows at least three pieces of pink and white striped frit. I recognize that frit from marbles I've held in my hand and presented for discussion in the past.

Bumping. Hoping Sue will see if Jeroen doesn't. I've heard them called Chinese more often than German but I couldn't cite a source. I THINK it is typical of other non-marble Chinese glass - that's what I think I've HEARD - but again no specific source.

Wish I'd been taking notes instead of just glancing at numbers. I think he's lost score. I mean not just position. I think they actually decreased his score. Well, I'm not giving up. BUMP!

I don't see it either. A flip flop is not absolutely necessary but I don't see Pelt at this time for more than one reason. I don't have a good alternative in mind but I'm still uncomfortable with this one. p.s. with the colors as shown in the photo I might guess Akro. I'm thrown by Alan's description of the base though: "opaque pale creamy brown base". Apparently the colors are off on my monitor coz I basically see white.

hmmmm unusual . . .

I'll pick blue from the last marble.

Michael Martin Murphy? (just kidding Joe - you know I love ya!)

I WISH!

I was looking for a excuse to keep this thread going. Hoped these would do. P.s., any idea who all made stripedy ceramics would be welcome. The big one is a sweet glossy American Marble and Toy mib. The one on the right looks different. Not glossy for one thing, and the coloring look doesn't seem close.

Let's stall it on Aventurine for a moment. lol

I'm intrigued there are a couple which might look like Vits. I've noticed that in other Master packaging - mibs which in a standalone ID would likely be called Vit. I believed them to be Master but they sure made me do a double take. I went through about 500 Masters recently making notes on them. That was an adventure. The mibs had been pre-id-ed as Masters by people at shows and so forth. I was only making notes on particular style names within the Master line. On several I had to say something like, "If indeed this is Master, it seems the style name would be Sunburst." Because in a standalone ID with just that marble and no source given, I wouldn't want to have been the one ID-ing the maker.

I also posted a number of mibs in the ID section. I got some input and am grateful but not every question was answered. David, you've answered some of them already at Marble Mental. I purposely posted on different boards though to get as many opinions as I could. Sometimes different groups have different naming traditions and I wanted to get a good feel for that. In any case, more input would sure be welcome. Thanks. "lets all fight and argue." ???? Lots of people are trying to do more than fight. Acknowledging that wouldn't hurt.

There are lots of nice threads on the board. Lots of pix. Even a fair number of mibs waiting for ID. Do you really not see them?