Steph

Dave, that's what I was thinking they looked like. Andrea's gave me a serious Waitaminnit! moment though, because that sure is blade-y. (not to mention psychodelic) My mib has/had skinny blades. Mostly some blah color (olive? taupe? I can't remember colors). But the blades were edged in slivers of other colors. I think two blades may have had orange on the edge and two may have had purple. The most interesting thing about the shape of the blades is that they don't do that wide wiggly flare on the end. They almost form an O. The ends of the blades almost touch and as far as I can recall, the marble appears/appeared to have only only seam. I don't think I would have gotten rid of it. What I'm afraid of is that I may have put it in a pocket to keep it "safe" one afternoon while I was hoping the sun would break through.

Sun's gone ... and it looks like my mib is too. I've hung onto it for years ... toyed with the thought of getting rid of it in some bulk lot so I wouldn't keep worrying about it ... I thought I'd always pulled the mib back into my collection before I did anything so permanent to it. Maybe I finally let it go. ? Arrrrrrghhh

Okay. I have a mib that's hard to photograph. Not flashy but unusual. I don't think it looks all that much like a horseshoe, but it sure doesn't look like anything else I've seen. I didn't want to spend time trying to capture its innards if no one reading had anacortes experience. Looks like you do though, so I'll try to get a decent pic while the sun's out.

Anacortes is Vitro, right? And the horseshoe cat eye was a cage style, right? No blade style vanes, right?

Incredible!

Be sure you keep that in mind ...

Straight from a Christensen box! Wow!

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Hi Carole! Could I buy/borrow any of that to see it in hand? (buy if you are interested in selling, borrow if you really want to keep it but wouldn't mind parting with it temporarily ) (I'll pay shipping in either case!) My first priority is learning more about the white, but with so many blue base and green base and red ribbon mibs abounding from all makers it would be very cool to see those shades too.

anyone have a couple of beat-up but certifiable cac's they could bear to part with for under $20? pieces would do! I keep reading about how you gotta see cac white in person to really know it, and then you'll wonder how you could ever have mistaken it ... or something like that. I really want to have that experience !!! but so far whenever I've looked for samples from online sources I trust, they've been selling stuff way out of my price range. (calling it a price range is actually giving it too much credit that's why I collect cats) looking for the pathetically pleading but not annoying emoticon ... can't find it .... darn

Curiouser and curiouser. Holly, your marbles all look vintage, or at least potentially so. (Some of the cats and clearies could be newer, but we have no particular reason to think so.) So, if the Czech mib is newer, it is out of context in that way. But it is already out of context in another way, because no matter its age, it is not a common marble, and the rest of your mibs look like a nice, solid, but not exotic set. And whereas the seller of the Czech mib lot currently on eBay has credibly (and refreshingly) claimed they are modern, Marble Alan knows glass pretty darn well himself and he should also be able to judge some things about a mib's origin from the person who consigned them to him for sale, and he ball-parked his similar mibs at around the same era you estimate your mib to be from. So, the clues here are pointing every which way! Curiouser and Curiouser.

Charles, that one hurts to look at ... like a burning bush ....

okay, i'm back, but this is not a guess. at least not one i get credit for. I was looking back at william's remark about aquariums. I think it sounds really plausible as an explanation for the assorted types and uneven wear.

They sure looked mixed. They also look unevenly aged. Not like I remember any of my artificial "beach glass" looking after I took it out of my rock tumbler after any stage. It's a real puzzle that they're all peewees from apparently different makers. I'm done guessing.

If the white-ish based rainbows in that tin have the lavender I think I'm seeing, then I'd guess MK was at least a major contributor to whoever jobbered the lot (is 'jobber' the right verb here??????) but steve, at least some of yours still look different inside.

fwiw, the 4-vane lavender cats at the site ron points to make me think those at that site are modern mk's under the frosting. I don't think the hybrids in Steve's bunch would be mk. who has made multicolor peewee cats? that might be a starting place. -steph

One candidate for 9/16" metallic swirls has gotta be champion. The texture of the loop on the front right mib looks esp. right for a champion metallic. But the rest of the glass does look like it could be foreign.

Thanks. I also have a couple that are moonie like which have the orange peel texture and the crimps at the poles. I was on the fence about that being imperial too. You just bumped me off the fence. P.s. I'm having trouble with the site too. We have a system 9 mac. I don't think it's even advanced enough to get firefox.

I know imperials can be irritating because ebay sellers keep trying to pass them off as antique, handmade, akro or master! I still like some of them though. How old are they really likely to be? That was Question 1. Questions 2 & 3 are whether the two mibs at the front of this group are likely to be imperial. They look sorta imperial in some ways, but both the surface and the seams are much smoother. (click to enlarge) Straighter seams on the other end, esp. on the bluegreen base one: (click) Btw, the main reason I've hung onto the white base one is that it is littered with aventurine.

And this is where a quote would be good ... or at least a hint. At whom are you HUH-ing? At me for my oblique questions or at wediscount2 for his answer? -S

So, less desireable then, and something one should note in grading Pelts. Right? Right. Thanks. -S P.s. Did Peltier try not to sell them as a rule? P.p.s. Would ones with orange peel texture be more likely to be NLR's than rainbos?

What does it mean? Newer? Older? Lesser? Faker? -Steph

Thanks BJ. Since there are different shades of reddish and orange-ish there which specifically are the oxbloods? And who made them? (I think I know, but I am not totally sure and so I ask on behalf of other relative newbies who may read this thread in the archives. )

Need em! All the different flavors from all the different makers if possible. Please upload your images as attachments if possible so they can be permanent. Thanks! Steph

I'm very glad you answered because I was truly in suspense. I've been thinking about what either a yes or a no would mean to ability to trust my gut. If you had said, "No, 5/8 inch", I would have said, "You've shown me that I definitely need to keep my eyes open for more close matches in the realm of Jabo". Since you agreed though, it reinforces what Kris said about me in the first reply to my initial query: I have a good feel for Jabo. Even from a photo. I have strong, generally reliable impressions about the quality of Jabo's glass and the personality of Jabos swirls, in all three main sizes, the 5/8" and the two shooter sizes. And though I'm nowhere near expert, I have a good gut. I can't help thinking these two I'm holding are special.