Question About Peltier Purple Tiger

[manddrakes]

What makes a purple tiger? Is it when there's more black aventurine throughout the surface with very little orange showing or is the aventurine more blue like a blue bee? Pictures would ne great! Thanks for your time.

[manddrakes]

Found this picture! Thanks to the great Peltier links.

[Al Oregon]

So the base color is purple, not black? Of course, we have always discussed black not always being really black but sometimes a very, very dark purple. Maybe we need to put our regular tigers under bright light and see if there is a tinge of purple?

[david Chamberlain]

You rarely come across pure black. Interestingly in the Ravenswood find of 1987 there were some 1" opaque black marbles that came along with all the other marbles in that lot including 3 sizes of beautiful Ruby Reds(9/16"+, 3/4" and 7/8"+), the Orange covered 4 pg. advertising flyer(in quantity), Paul Bunyans(a half doz. varieties and variations), and such. David P.S. Oh yeah, some of the Vitro Anacortes caged cats that appear black are black and that was with new batteries in my Mag Lite.

[Steph]

Which color is the base and which the ribbons in this "purple tiger"?

[semdot]

I think that most or all black is just a dense saturation of some other dark color. I have a Pelt mulicolor that you would swear has an opaque black base. You have to hold it just right in bright sun to see the "transparent" green base. Same thing with an Akro blue oxblood ashtray I own. You can only see blue if you look very close at one certain spot in very bright sun, otherwise it's black.

[david Chamberlain]

And it's exactly what I love about black glass amethyst. David

[bigjohn691500]

if thats a pelt purple tiger ill eat 5 marbles,, never heard of a peltier purple tiger, dont mean they dont exist but never heard of such animal,but the aventurine is off the hook on that mib,, bj

[MARBLEMISER]

Which color is the base and which the ribbons in this "purple tiger"?

The base is orange, the ribbons are purple or blue!

I have ( ONE ) that has both of those colors.

I bought it in Amana in 95.

Sad thing it is next to impossible to capture the colors in a photo.

There was supposed to be one at the Buckeye Show a while back.

Only I didn't get there to eyeball it.

They are really HTF>

marblemsier

[bjmarble]

This marble was at the Buckeye show last year and the year before.

I know this because it is mine.

Yes the base is orange and the bands have a slight purplish ting to them in my opinion.

I had sold it once on the bay and it was returned because it was not purple enough so its all in the eye of the holder.

I purchased it as a purple tiger several years ago and paid big dollars.

It is 21/32" and does have one small flake/chip in the orange unfortunately.

The adventurine is the most I have seen on any "old" marble.

Don't know if this helps or not.

My camera does not take the best close ups but I could try in the sunlight tomorrow (weather permitting)if it helps.

Brad

[manddrakes]

Very nice marble brad! A picture in the sunlight would be great. Marblemiser I would really like to see a picture of yours with the purple and blue. Thanks for your time. Mike

[bjmarble]

Tried to get a pic in daylight and it does not help.

Took some close ups with bright light and color still does not show well.

Thought you might enjoy the pics anyway.

Brad

[Al Oregon]

Good pics - that orange base really threw me from the pics. Looked like orange ribbons ona black base. Cool marble - I can see where the purple ID comes from.

[manddrakes]

That marble is exceptional from every angle and the aventurine is off the map! Thanks for sharing.

[FIRE81]

Is that a messed up "Figure 8" pattern ?