Carowill

Thanks for sharing your expertise!

Akro for me

Congratulations on your sobriety!

It is a shame that people are able to get some of the best marble identification and advice here at Marble Connection and yet they worry about their “feelings” being hurt. Everyone here offers their experience totally free and does so that others will learn. If you don’t like the forum and you think you know it all, then I think you need to start your own forum or simply leave the rest of the members alone. “No good deed goes unpunished.” Thanks Alan for your sage advice!

CORNelian or CARNelian? Looks like the latter to me.

Heaton and ear can have a tail.

Seams don’t seem Vitro to me

Thanks, that’s two of us!

5/8”

Vitro Parrot with 4 colors and very little white

Heaton Firecracker 🧨

Ron says Ravenswood and Heaton rarely used yellow.

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As always, I appreciate your insight and dedication. I know it doesn’t happen overnight but I have a passion for knowledge and I know I’ll get there. Just frustrating sometimes because so much is not in books. I read and reread archived material from here and AAM website. Thanks for being such a valuable resource!

Your willingness to take the time to teach is extraordinary! I don’t know if everyone feels the same as me but I don’t just want an ID, I want to learn and grow. There is no substitute for experience. However, having a doctoral degree, I appreciate having didactics to learn from. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

Thank you Ron for confirmation! What I would love to do is learn is how to differentiate so I don’t have to bother others and reach a point to teach others! I appreciate everyone imparting their wisdom @ TMC, but my nature is wanting to know why things are the way they are.

Beautiful!

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I have some Ravenswood transparent swirls that have white and brown wispy swirls that came supposedly from the warehouse find. My basic question is what distinguishes Alley vs. Champion vs. Ravenswood?

If it is “transitional”, it must have ONE pontil or shear mark?

I know I have some Ravenswood that are similar to especially the bottom right marble that has a little brown mixed in, and I know Alley made a similar marble. How do you tell apart?

I have dozens of these wispy transparent marbles. How do you separate out the Ravenswood from Alley and are there others in the mix? If so, what are some useful tools to differentiate. Ravenswood often seems to have a second color in the swirls.