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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.

This one is my favorite Heaton type I think. The Heaton Mint Chocolate Chip. I love these. Self explanatory I think on the colors.

Well the Heaton digs are officially over now, and there are many to be cleaned still, but some of the nicer notable ones have gotten some attention and acquired names either during the digs or afterwards while cleaning and sorting. I'll kick this off with a few and update periodically, or others who know the new named types are also welcome (encouraged) to contribute. I'll start off with the Heaton Firecracker. It has the classic Heaton ear or circle and tail construction. It is built just like the Heaton Red Rose, just different colors. These also exhibit the clip of color on the back side, just like the Red Roses. The Firecracker has an opaque white base and transparent electric yellow and red ribbon. One of the few Heatons that exhibit the color yellow. All are 5/8" or close.

We did get one more dig this last weekend. A two day dig, and as we packed our stuff the excavator was bringing in fill dirt. The marbles will be 10 feet under in no time. That was the last dig. Val (my wife) found the string for the bag this last dig. I'll show pics soon. There will be a thread with named heatons soon as well. Some amazing outstanding examples will be shown too, Heaton will be a much more common name in the marble world than it used to be.

Thanks, the blue and orange are neat ones. That's more of a brown chemical reaction between the blue and orange, rather than oxblood. It makes for a nice effect though. There are so many color combos from Akro it's probably near infinity

Thank you! All is well again.

Ah, ok we posted at the same time. Trying the usual method now

Thanks Jason, trying a another option now to see if it works. Craig told me that using direct viewer links works now instead of the full BB code.

I assume it came with some string in the bag, along with a dozen or so marbles. Wish we found more but hey, one of a kind is cool too. Thanks Steph!

Thanks Chad, that link to the heaton archive on AAM wasn't supposed to be in this, I'm not sure how it got posted. This is supposed to be photos of a new type of heaton bag. I edited to remove the link although anyone is welcome to look at it. I posted most of those pics here as well in Steph's study hall.