Chad G.

"Yesir" 100% genuine, one of the older pieces, though they still make cups similar to that one, called "ash ware" I have some incent burners that are the exact same color, kind of an off white with reddish sandy looking swirls running through it. Also some oil laps that are actual glass made from the ash also. I'll get some pics and post em a bit later.

"Yes" there's loads of it around here, I collect it, it's glass made of ash from the May 1980 eruption of the Mountain. We watched it erupt from our backyard, Mt. St. Helens is only 50 miles away so it was just like watching T.V. The beach along the Columbia River where I Salmon fish is about half Mt. St. Helens ash still, it'll probably be washing down the river from the Cowlitz for the next couple hundred years. The Cowlitz is fed by Glaciers stemming from Mt. St. Helens so is continually flushing ash down into the Columbia, I think I have a pic of the headwaters of the Cowlitz at the base of the Mountain. The headwaters of the Cowlitz can be seen running through the middle of this pic. The ash is way over a hundred feet deep in places. That's what you see the river cutting through in the first pic is all ash. That canyon is several miles away as is the mountain. The greenery you see in the bottom of the first picture isn't shrubs it's trees. The bottom picture shows me standing at the top & the water flowing through the rocks, that's no sand it's all volcanic ash, this river used to be solid river rock & bedrock, no sand, now that's basically all there is " Volcanic ash" Another pic of the Cowlitz running through the ash, those fir trees in the bottom of the canyon are 40 years old so not small. Hard to get a perspective of just haw far away this actually is just from a picture.

Whadya mean I can't dig here ?? Your yard what ??................. ( Great pix & great memories Bill !! )

Maybe ask Jason (bumblebee) ?? He's the Admin & probably knows more about how it works ?? The new system appears automated to me ??

The badge system is all new to me as well Rick ?? Just here to learn & share !!

Well it is translucent & does have a hint of the yellowish base glass as Ric said, so I'd say yes to it being an inky, on the "border" but still has the qualifiers to be one.

You can stage a "Grand Reopening" before you move 🤣 Good way to keep em in play right up to the last minute !!

I have the one you sent me and it's American counterpart, hang on a sec I gotta download the pix from my camcorder to my P.C.. Ok !! got done the one on the left is the, thus far unidentified foreign mib I got from the Joep in the Netherlands, the one on the right is a familiar Vitro. The opposite side of the one from the Netherlands just has the white base on it. but the colors of the patches are intense !! You can see where the color patches end on both sides of the mib on the left. Another mib from a friend that won't be leaving my collection. Be nice when we finally find out the provenance on these ??

Beautiful mibs Ron !!

Yep !! I started it late on Wednesday but everyone wants to keep posting so have at er I guess. I'm gonna save a few for next Wednesday myself, so we have something to talk about !!

Great Drizzle !!

One of my favorite Alleys

Just took pics of one I found along the beach where I fish, last year I found a bunch there just walking around, even some in the pine trees in low lying branches, one was shaped like mount St. Helens and panted as such, a real work of art !! I'll post the other one soon, a real beauty !! Ah !! I have te pix of the rock, a very nice job of painting plus they enameled over it, gonna be a bit before this one wears off.

They look to be all Alley to me !!

Killer mib !! I have a couple just like this somewhere !! I hate it when you can't find a mib, hopefully someone comes up with an I.D ??

Thanks Tommy !! Almost time to take some more pics, I'm starting to mix a bit of other colors in there, don't want to do that (or do I ?? )

Killer, one and all, I really like what you did with the coffin box, I'm gonna get a few more myself, I love em !!

Sorry for the late post !!

Right on the money

You got it, both W.Va. manufacturers, MK still is, for a whir anyway !!

Yes !! Av. one of my first av. marbles if not the first, it may have been a pelt I'm not sure ?? You have some West Virginia mibs, there were many different manufacturers from W.Va. Hopefully others will post theirs and I can learn something about them, I seem to have a hard time I.D.ing some W.Va. mibs !!

I thought maybe a new query would stir things up a bit !! Postings of your favorite or any other W.Va. manufactured mib !! One of my all time favorite mibs, the Alley Shimmering Spruce :

Leaning on the side of Master also, Just for giggles does the base react when you put a u.v. light to it ??

x 3, Jabo, good pic of the infamous (But crack)