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Here you go Chad. These usually have a faded green stripe. The green stripe is faint on mine but not as faint as these poor pictures make it look. It's very washed out, old pic from before I had my photo area set up. Then there's the metallic one, even harder to find: There's a yellow faced one too, thought I had pics but I don't.

Chad, where is that info about suppenhutte? I clicked the link but see no reference to it. What category is it under on Alan's site?

I'm the guy on the right. This pic was taken at Ron's place just after the last Heaton dig a few weeks ago. I prefer machine made by far, swirls more specifically. When I started in the 1980s I was more interested in the handmades but so was everybody back then. I'm so glad attention got shifted to the machine mades.

Fun topic! I'll put 10 cool ones up.

deleted... didn't realize there were two of these topics the same and I pretty much said the same thing Ron did in the other one, down to the red faced one lol.

Newer MK for the bottom 3.

The Heaton Oyster. The coloration on these is dead on the name. Looks just like the meat of an oyster, even the dark purple. It has a translucent base, can vary from almost opaque to very translucent. Has the amber brown coloration to varying degrees throughout the base, and a dark purple swirl.

I can add some for the thread:

The Heaton Turtle Shell. Probably not a food lol

Yeah heh, we must've been hungry when we were naming those things. I don't know how though, we were munching on homemade smokehouse sausage, slices of summer sausage, toast, artisan bacon, etc... I guess all the superhero names are used up and you have to draw from other things to get new names. I think they are all pretty fitting though. There are some more with edible names coming. Didn't realize how many were edibles at the time but that works... Pelts can be comic books and Heatons can be menus

The Heaton Honey Biscuit. The base is transparent with ribbons of honey amber and biscuit white. The base looks like transparent honey until you inspect a little closer and see the honey ribbon is in the base making it look that way. I am typing this after eating the props

Ron picked one of these up and rubbed it on his jeans to get the grime off and held it there and looked at us with the marble held tight to his jeans and said, "same color" and the striations look like the ribs in denim too. So many shades of blue to purple that you can hold it up against just about any pair of blue jeans and it will match. The Heaton Blue Denim. These aren't plentiful but there are enough that they should be available.

Good name for it Stephen! The Heaton cucumber, named by Ron Shepherd:

I picked this up out of the mud in the hole down at the marble vein at Heaton. I had a sneaking suspicion it was aventurine/lutz whatever you want to call it. I was happy to find when I cleaned it up I was right! Undoubtedly this is what was used in the Razzle Dazzles. I wonder if it got used in any others? Also here is the glowing virtolite and maroon ox that was also found on the razzle dazzles.

The Alley Tater Bug was named I think by Sammy Hogue if I remember right, because the colors reminded him of a taterbug. They look like this And then the marbles with the name Lady in the Alleys have this lavender color, shown in the opal lady, blue lady, and others: So, the lady tater requires knowledge of the previous types to make sense. The Lady Tater Bug is the same marble as the Taterbug, but with the addition of the lady color lavender. That's the way I understand it at least. There is a green tater and orange tater too. I've seen another marble that doesn't have the taterbug base and it has a pinkish ribbon and folks calling it a Lady Tater too. Maybe the name has encompassed those? An example like it is in the Alley book. Here's mine, a gift from a good marble friend:

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Superball. They get hard and dried up when they are old.

Nola held this one up and said, "I think this one should be Volcano" and it was a fast unanimous "yes" from the rest of us. Great name Nola! I'm not sure what the base is on these. Maybe the clear but sometimes you barely see the clear and the base is more tan. Sometimes the clear is nice and clear, sometimes it is smoky grey. As usual with Heatons, they vary a good bit. The tan and red are volcanic.

That appears to be one Trey. One thing about Heatons is that some examples can vary a lot.

Oh yeah, I see it's not white underneath. They are nice too and like Ron said, not very common.

Looks like the comics are legit. The brick is questionable, more pics might change that. Looks more like red in the pics than oxblood.

Thanks Steph! Stephen, that looks like a Blackberry. I though blackish base too until I backlit one. Hit it with a strong light like the one on your cell phone and see if it's not a super rich purple mixed with ruby color. I should take a pic of one backlit.

Here's another. Val fell in love with these as soon as she dug one up. Purple is her color! When we gathered around the washing station at Ron's, this one got held up and Val blurted out "BLACKBERRY!!" and everyone knew that was it's new name. Here are some blackberries They are dark purple translucent base, white ribbon. The purple goes lighter over the white in places. Very blackberry colored is right.

Nice Job Stephen, I heard my dog's collar jingling in the background Was fun to watch you film it and see the end product.