Okay. So, that's really interesting. Lizzy's first pigtail totally looked like it could have matched the glass underneath very closely. There were some differences, but it seemed like it could have been due to smearing or shearing.
On the other hand, Bob's blended spiderman pigtails look like blended spiderman glass but seem definitely out of sync with the glass underneath, so they seem to be last stage imbeds. Errors, if you will.
Steve's pigtail looks most like mine, because it has little or no color, but though it is out of place it still seems like it might match the lightest shade on his mib. So, it could be in the same category as Bob's: a mismatched patch but the same basic glass.
So I've gone back and rechecked my original swirls for signs that my pigtails are integrally related to the rest of the glass in the marble, but those pigtails are definitely not colored like the marbles they have sprouted from.
I'm considering the possibility that there is a clear or translucent but sheer layer of glass over the marble and that these pigtails are made of the same glass as was used for that final layer. Yet I'm still struck by the similarity between the positioning of the pigtails on these two marbles, and by the fact that they seem to tie off the ribbon of color somehow. So I keep asking myself if this could possibly be coincidence or if the pigtails could possibly be intrinsically related to how these marbles were made.
By the way, I haven't heard anyone voting that these are jabo. Is everyone agreed they're probably not?
Steph