Alan

If your aventurine is strictly at the surface like mine - then my guess of glass colorant salts on the rollers and some hot marbles picking it up seem all the more likely. Otherwise there would be some in the green or clear matrix. Thanks for the pic.

If you have an example I'd be interested in a photo or two. I've been thinking about the unusual surface layer of "aventurine" and why it would be that thick, right on the surface, that color etc. and how that would occur in the glass pot. That led me to a (completely factually unsupported) guess that the machine operator may have been feeding colorant (metal salts) into the pot by shovel (standard method) and could have dropped some on the rollers. When the next few marbles went through the rollers - they would have picked up the loose dry powder - which was then fused to the glass (but only on the surface). This color of "aventurine" isn't the normal color we see in subsurface glass and is far too dense....hard to imagine any other reason it would be on the surface only. Anyway...thats my unsupported speculation.

Thought I would share this Akro Sparkler with a little more than half of the surface covered with a dense emerald green aventurine:

In West Virginia.

That would put it at 1958.

If one orders glass (boro etc) these days this is a sample of what is sold as Pistachio glass:

A large Geoff Beetem air trap: A tiny Harry & Wendy Bessett Eisenglas (mica inclusion in clear):

Ravenswood:

A few more "clears": Mike E. Shadows: Mike E. UV Galaxies: JD Anderson Pee Wee Jellyfish:

Bob: The white tri-level solid core at 12 o'clock in the photo measures 2.25": Here it is with the smallest - a 15/32" divided core: This is the divided core pee wee: The large green and yellow divided core pictured on Page 1 of this thread comes in at 2 3/8" dia.: Alan

Lots of clear:

Brown:

I own two Akro spinner cups dug from the site. They have grooves carved into the cup to "catch" glass and start it spinning.

FYI Greg: The pee wee box that I sold to Les was roughly twice that size.

Les Jones had a Pee Wee box. I sold it to him at the Columbus show.

The handmade market is showing softness right now - which to me means "BUY!". I would buy mint sulphides with good figure placement and detail without hesitation. I bought a really nice handmade last weekend at the New Philly that would have cost me twice the price in an average market - so I see the soft market segment as an oportunity.

Al of the sulphide coins that I have seen were roughly 3 times as thick as the one pictured.

Killer Pelts: A PHENOMINAL set of Pee Wees: Killer Bricks, slags, Pekts etc:

HotHouse Glass (makers of GREAT "Plaidacinos": Geoff Beetem and some of his great work:

Peltiers: Handmades: "The Griff":

Eddie Seese: Mark Thompson ®: John Harris - Clearwater Agates (L): A great Indian board: Peppermints: