Chad G.

X3, thanks for the pic spn

Yes, you could almost consider it a MCS

Man, it sure looks like a pontil to me, thanks for the great pix, I'm voting transitional

Sorry, I can't tell if it's damage or a pontil. If it's a pontil you're right, if it's fractures or a chip it's machine made. This is what I can't quite make out.

X2

Do you have a good pic of the crease pontil, I must be missing something ?

nice marble Brother I don't have many shrunken onions

More mica

X3, I like it

X3, Vitro

X3, master

Pelt IMO

Mushroom, but Japanese not made by Akro

X2

Seeing Machine made, no pontil IMO

X3

OP is machine made IMO, not seeing Yasuda

X3

X2, Seeing Pelt here also

X3, Rainbo

not seeing Yasuda IMO, Machine made IMO

Yes they R HTF. I had to wait a while for mine. Mint, I had several beat up ones in my hand but you get what you pay for and if I needed to sell a mint marble will be gone almost as soon as you post it. Patience, you'll find one

Joseph coats all have a window to the interior of the marble to where you can see the matrix, somewhere between the ribbons of color stretched between the poles, no matter the base color. An onionskin does not. Onionskins will have a base skin under the stretched ribbons making it impossible to see the interior, the most common colors are yellow or white for the skin, but they do vary.