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0.64" Any ideas? Thanks! John

I prefer to be cautious too and agree with you. I went with it based on my thinking that perhaps I just haven't yet seen the type, or don't recall seeing it. I respect the opinion of the mibologist that provided this ID. Do we think I might just as well pull the image off this thread? john

I posted this on another board after having it for some time; I was on the fence but thought that Ravenswood or Alley was a possibility. I scoured the archives on I went with Alley....but I guess I will remove my post later today if we think it isn't. I don't like to see a marble in the wrong place...adds to confusion, with which some marbles is a common occurrence.

Sure thing. I'll shoot a few more tomorrow and post. Thanks! john

I don't know the type, but I sure like that marble! Nice, deep, architecture. john

So what would you think? 0.73". Thanks! John

Ric....that last one! Wow! I was just working on some photos of this one. John

I've been working on my picky nature. Enough pixels and money has been spilled over the likes of perfect marbles, and I'm not going to say that it isn't important...it surely is. As mint as one can get is always terrific. But I've been working on trying to appreciate marbles that interest me for the condition they are, and not worry about how they present (that is, they are in worse condition than I wish they would be). So I keep those I like, chips and all. This one isn't wounded like some above, but I tried to get a perspective on the surface in this photo. Recently found this rebel in the wild in a small jar of mostly MCS examples...paid 10 cents. Seems fair.

Cichlids rule! A friend of mine used to have a KILLER cichlid tank...then he built a reef. I can't even keep a cactus alive.

The mibologists above are correct, I think. Thanks for the warning Ann! John

*Waving back!*

Thanks for your thoughts! I turned off the flash on that one as you might know, but there was a bit of luck in it too, I'm sure. I'd bet I'd have to take a bunch more before I had those results again. As you guessed, I had to tinker with the exposure as well. Back to the marble-lab for more photography. John

I couldn't just compliment one of these Akros on this thread....great marbles and photos everyone!

This is an interesting post. I'm am not a photographer, and know almost nothing of these things, but I have been working with my limited experience and equipment and agree with the posts above. I've taken so many marble pictures it's almost made me crazy OCD. Marbles are tricky to say the obvious. I've come to appreciate that taking a good mib picture will always be a series of compromises; and different marbles require different approaches. Mostly I've been interested in improving on those really tricky transparent ones...depth of field, achieving a 'rounder' appearing marble, and making the mib appear more as it is 'in hand.' Taming light is a bugger. It's so slippery. This example of a shooter wire pull I think, is an improvement in some regard. Will I ever be happy? Probably not. John

Right on! Nice to see all those slags in one place.

I had the same thought....similar to one of those great orange ones you posted above. I've found a few, and I'm not going to lose them! John

Nice to see those 'plain ones' from Galen. Helped me with a few that I thought were CAC, but really nice to see them match up. Not really too plain for me, but compared to those stellar ones he posted back earlier, I sure get it. John

Great mibs, all of them. So many fine examples. John

This one is at 0.72", example #4...if anyone cares. Not too much in the overlaying pink here. Again, back and forth, back and forth.

Bumblebee might have something, with the pink that emerges from the underlaying red....hmmmm.

Seems like a coin toss, all this. Still, I'm crazy about these...don't much care they are more monochromatic, to some boring. I'll take them off your hands. This is my AA/Prima hog...bigger at 0.82" and a real fine mib IMHO. I don't expect anyone to chime in, but please do if so inclined. I've gone back and forth on this one...now thinking this is CA. Tomorrow, Pelt, etc, etc. Some resemblance to the left box, bottom left. We can call this #3 for the post (the boxes excepted). John

This is really helpful discussion. Maybe we can start say that some specimens of AA we can ID...that the variegated orange and red on white are AA and very likely all those of this type in the right box like that are, in fact, AA too. I really feel strongly are distinctive and don't cross into that shared similarity that both types have when they become more translucent. Maybe those will remain either or for some time. The left box really does mess me up if I look at it too long, and but the right box looks more uniform overall (might be an illusion from size similarity)...but I just can't find the two outliers. I'm going to look at that picture for a good while. Thanks everyone for an informative thread. I'm going to pull mine all out again and move them around. More examples to come. John

This one is 0.70" and I think, an American Agate. The nine is in white, and I include an under-exposed example that shows it differently. Here the colored ribbons is more variegated in color than the other type, and there is less transparent glass overlaying the opaque. What do you think about mib #2? John

Would like to know what others think about this marble at 0.60" I see at least two concepts concerning these, and at times they are opposed to each other. One claims CA American Agates are more opaque and variable in the ribbons color tending to orange, and the other is that AA are cloudy translucent and opaque and more narrow in color range in the red. And v.v. for Primas. My examples fall out nicely into these groups, and I guess now I think the former is for CAC (more opaque), and the latter is for Prima (more cloudy). I am leaning Pelt Prima on this example...thinking that Prima tends to be a bit more cloudy, a bit more translucent. In addition, I can easily see the glass being Pelt on this one, but don't ask me why. But like I've said before, I'm not really sure what to think about these, and I have some examples, and since these were foundational marbles for each manufacturer, I really want to know. Don't you? Anyone want to discuss a few examples of these? I'll post this as mib #1 for easier reference. I recognize I might be all backwards on this. Heck, maybe this is neither of them. Thanks! John

More for the Akro show. These polychrome blended corks sure are fun, I think.