Shellkat

I had this with my patches, but it certainly doesn't belong. Pelt came to mind? 

5 minutes ago, ann said:

I think you're right, Steph . . . the colors look more John Deere than any Akro I can place.  Is the green a little transparent?

Yes, indeed it is. John Deere, that's why it's special! Haha. I love my JD. (Jack too, haha.)

I just posted in the gallery before I saw your thread!! You read my mind. Let's see some marbles! : )

An old warrior. Yellow with a green cork. It's well played, but seems special.

I just don't know. Those cub scout colors.

2 minutes ago, Steph said:

I suspect it is a crack of some sort.  Maybe an annealing fracture.  (Connected with the cooling process of the marble.)

 

That's what I suspected as well. A cold press? Is that the term I read somewhere? The color in it that I only noticed after magnifying it threw me for a loop. I've noticed the Japanese ones seem to have several cracks. Some you can feel, some you can't.

Does the gap in the middle of the swirly stuff point to vitro? Like those big green ones I showed yesterday? I have 5 blues, 3 greens, 3 orange and a yellow all the same size and one blue just slightly larger than the rest. A bakers dozen. Can I make a box? Haha.

4 minutes ago, Steph said:

These ribbons say Vitro to me.   

And this little one is a lemon yellow with wavy vanes.

This little yellow one is juicy.I tried to capture the Orange. A stripe and some blush on the vanes. Thanks.

What's odd about this light blue cats eye is the surface line, which looks like a crack but the marble is smooth as can be. Under my magnyfing glass it looks like a black, or blue, or greenish line. It's big too. 

Cool. My cousin recently told us that many of the cats eyes were stolen from the dime store by her and her "boyfriend" when they were 8!!!! : ) she's 67. Haha.

Oooh. That is pretty.

Lite green really....on the white one. In going blind I think.

Shooters. The white one has lite blue on the vein edges. The greens are different.

My descriptions are opposite the pictures. Sorry.   These two have 6 veins and three colors.

Three mibs, two views each. The first one has spots all over the inside veins. The next one is really pretty blue and peach. And the third ,a bannana?

Can I call this a bumblebee? : )

Upon closer inspection, the black is actually clear. You can see the colors forming inside.

11 minutes ago, lstmmrbls said:

In my opinion Ebay listings is a fairly poor source for accurate marble names

That's why I'm here! So much misinformation around. Glad you guys are so knowledgable. I'm just meeting them myself and name them what feels right, like sun shines or earths. Haha.

I am assuming it's a pelt. Lots of colors. Orange, green, black, white, even some gray blue and deeper orange.

Here is my zebra....and it sparkles crazy when lit up.

2 minutes ago, Steph said:

Ooops, you do have three Pelt blue and yellows in this batch, but they wouldn't be called Cub Scouts either.  

Peltier Peerless Patches.  AKA PPP's  

 

Here's a Peltier Cub Scout.  It's from the MarbleAlan site.  Sorry, not posed so you can see the seams and the NLR structure.  

I did think the cub scout colors were more like the Akro sun shines. The ppps confused me a bit. Thanks for the clarification. : )

Like these? Except for the odd ball bottom right. I had them together as my "earths" but upon closer inspection it needs a new home.

3 minutes ago, Steph said:

Ahh ... I'm kinda leaning MK on the "ugh".  But at the same time, I would probably put it in the same box as my Vitro All Reds  ... just sorta on the edge.

How helpful is that?  

 

The one with two orange ribbons remains weird.  I think it's a PelTroKing.

PeltroKing!!! Haha. It's a pretty peltroking that's for sure.