Chad G.

GOOD ELF, BAD ELF....... Hmmmm !!! " Busted" Or, Just An Inquisitive Window Washer?? Wwwhat !! you can see me !! I was just enjoying the snow !! Honest !! There is no snow ?? Well uh !! Oh !! Inside the window, well it was open !! Ohh boy here we go !! I guess I didn't use enough of that " Invisible Dust" !!! MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL, GOD Bless, be happy and stay safe !!!

Yes a great conversation piece, it looks as if there's no interest in it ? Maybe there aren't as many inquisitive people as once I thought? They all want the Pelt Holy Grail I guess ?? If I had any $ left from Christmas I might throw a little at it, but from here I'm looking up from the bottom of a relatively deep Holiday hole.

Please try a daylight bulb to eliminate the yellow dingy look and brighten up your pics. It will improve the capability to I.D. the marbles significantly. They're about 4 or $5 each at Walmart or whoever carries bulbs, throws out a blue white instead of a yellow light more like sunlight, great for taking pics of marbles or glass. 10 to 15 actual watts on a 40 to 75 watt bulb equivalent. try the 40 w equivalent first, stay away from the marble at least 12 inches, a little experimentation and you'll be taking pictures like a champ. Just a helpful hint from someone whos been there "Good luck " And A belated " WELCOME " Chad

Please try ad put only one mib in the frame at a time Boris !! as close as you can get without blurring the surface of the marble. This will make the I.D. 10 times faster and more accurate (no guessing ) for who ever is I.D.ing your mibs. Thank you Chad

A great one offer, if there wasn't blue looking av. in the ribbons with the classic pelt dimply surface, I would definitely go with MK, in which case I would be wrong but it would never be detected, personally I think it to be a great teaching tool Chuck !! post it in b & W, then with no av. and then in color with the av. I'll bet the answers would vary more than the colors on the mib do.

"WoW" some kinda almost half double ingot looking thing Roby, the seam is really different, yes a nice larger size also !!

Maybe a tad more research, either forum here at MC or at AAM will give you an I.D. within a day !! people here or there won't usually tell you something misleading or "wrong" I know that if I where selling I would make double Shure of what I had before posting it for sale if I had any question as to the I.D. I would state so in the header. Great "thank you " I see the fix.

Most people will listen or at least ask if they don't understand. When someone blatantly posts something as something it's not they are quickly found out and exposed. I went to the trouble of explaining the difference between MK and Peltier and this is the answer I get LINK : https://www.ebay.com/itm/174565745810?ul_noapp=true You may fool people once or twice but after that you won't sell anything, no way you could miss identify that marble after all the trouble I went to. Even used the same pic on Ebay, come on man really !!

Thanks for the input Ron, A great mib, I had to post it for conversation, a great learning point as far as glass flow, color, temp and production and non production. Every once in a while one like this slips by, as said when your producing that many marbles your going to see some like this. Thanks again for the input. I also posted this on the other forum with a much different out come. I realize it is a pelt I just wanted to see the reaction and read other opinions on it.

No not a pelt, MK 100%, blue bees or other pelt NLR's have more well defined ribbons and don't fade into the base glass like 99% of veneered MK's on at least 1 ribbon, there are always exceptions, here are a few pics of pelt bees for you. I hope this helps you in determining the difference between a "pelt and a marble king" Pelt bees do not always have av. Finding one without is harder but still the ones with it are worth more. Sad but true I have no MK bumble bee's to share. There are still many more members of the pelt bee family I was just giving a few examples. A BRONZE BEE, courtesy of AAM, loaded with bronze colored av. A BLUE BEE, courtesy of AAM with a little different ribbon pattern than Bonnies, loaded with blue av. A BUMBLE BEE WITH HVY. BRONZE AV. (some may consider this a bronze bee) A RUBY BEE W/ AV. TWO MORE BUMBLE BEES 1st ONE NO AV. SECOND ONE WITH AV. ANOTHER SHOT OF THE SECOND ONE IN THE LAST PIC. SHOWING THE AV. IN THE SUN AND A LITTLE DIFFERENT GOLDEN BASE COLOR, and the more prevalent silver colored av.

Maybe Alley, mighty sparse though

Yes Steph, at least the one side especially look's MK, nothing like a pelt, the other side is kind of iffy, either way In my mind a killer mib.

A great idea and attitude lets use a sniping program, split the bid, and after we win the mib, them take some before and after picture's of the 🔨 in action !!! After staring at the auction post for a while this is what happened !! and a bit later and after a second look or maybe I started out this way ?? I'm glad someone seen fit to put a "hammer emoji" in here, thank you for the consideration. It came in handy.

Welcome to the land of confusion, without the av. would you still say pelt ?? I can't say if I would or wouldn't. In hand a 2 second I.D. but yes the dimpled av. riddled ribbons also point to pelt for me as well, what an odd ribbon construct !! I know pelt made pink glass, I had a pink based NLR, but not a half and half maybe a change in color stream or tanks created this one off. A washed out tiger for sure, if all pink what a killer then, still a great mib in my book.

This is an active post on Ebay, is it Pelt ? or is it MK ? one side looks pelt, one side MK, one end Pelt ? one MK ? It does have blue av. but I've seen green and a very rare bit in MK. With characteristics of both "I Vote Pelt" that's my first intuition so be it, the picture drew me to the post not what the seller hs to say. Many sellers try to sell on the premise of the name of the marble thinking that will bring more money, not saying this person did that because the listing says Pelt? or MK? Pink, orange, what ?? LINK: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324423183509 PICS

You weren't wrong Steph, it is a Pelt, your post certainly "got me to look" I wonder if that's why they call us Pelt heads ??

Sounds like it's a pelt Blue Bee, rare and worth a couple hundred $$ at least, well above what the MK's are. The little twinkles if blue are blue av., you need at least a 10 x loupe to get s good close look to see what color the av. is unless it's so thick you can see it with your naked eye. If indeed a blue bee you should or I would definitely not let it roll around=d with a bunch of other mibs but at least put it into a little zip lock to preserve the surface, a very important factor in the value. A rare bee I see!! New home yes!! I would put it in it's own little dog house. " nice mib "

Yes looks pelt to me also Steph, Pelt Bumble bees with a blue tracer often have blue av. have you looked really close for trace amounts or very fine of av. , weather it be blue or not?? And yes Steph I agree absolutely with the MK on the other three. And I would say you have 2 different bumble bees, 1 pelt and 3 MK with variations of the same marble Bonnie

Is this site the one Al, it's been down for weeks at least, until now when I just checked it after reading your post, Thank You, I've been trying to use it for reference for weeks. I saved the link in case it came back up, I had a feeling it would, a very important and most complete list I've found is if this be the one ?? https://www.billes-en-tete.com/liste_billes.php?lang=en

Here in WA. as well, I don't even want to go outside the moisture laden wind cuts right into ya, wish I would have lived a little closer to a mib factory, I like cullet, kinda nice to have cullet to go along w/ the mib. Good show Bill. Ya musta recovered from that last dose of popcorn ??

I like the second upside down one, good amount of ox for a limeade, a great mib !!!

A lot of Vitro's Bonnie, my fav. beautiful nice fat multi colored hybrids, yeah buddy, nice !!

I don't collect them either but I sure ended up with amess of them, every time I bought a lot or went to an estate sale and got some there was always Akro in there so I decided I would keep the best and sell or give away the rest, well the rest is starting to build up or creep up on me A very nice multi Ric, man those really used to draw the $$ anything over 3 colors really set Akro collectors off. Nice and wet, I see why you kept it.

Both classic familiar old favorites. Happy, Happy, Happy !! A few dimples never hurt and only add to the character of the marble for me.

I know I've already posted this one but the oxblood in it is near black, an almost anemic type color, all my other blue aces have the lighter colored ox. a pic of it alone and beside a regular colored one for comparison. " Oop's" Happy Akro Friday all.