richsantaclaus Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 These mibs are beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 Or would it be a six ribbon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIRE81 Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 This what I've always considered to be Pelt Sub....transparent blue base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 OK,Thanks Blue base Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted January 24, 2011 Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 I've only seen the term applied to a Peltier, if it has a translucent blue base and orange-y yellow ribbons like some examples shown in this thread. Backlight the one in question from the first post and tell us what you see (getting a back-lit pic can be tough). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Ok I found a pic. A pretty crappy one from when a Sony Macava was a good camera. Is this the one? Yes, that's it. When I shine a maglite through it, I can see light but can't actually see through the marble, so I call it translucent, not transparent, although there is a BIT of transparency. The middle is ESSENTIALLY opaque, or maybe it's just too dense to show much light through it, but there is a little light that does show even there. I certainly wouldn't call this a transparent marble. Maybe later, I'll try to get backlit pictures of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Here is the best I could do without spending much time on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I think I may have a Submarine! And the pattern forms a perfect corkscrew. It's the Superboy in the upper left of the first picture. Here's what it looks like backlit. This one might be called transparent, though parts of it look more translucent. Opinions, please, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnivalcolor Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 What about these two. They are not NLR types, so if that is a prerequisite they are out. They are even full of bubbles when backlit (only adding to the appropriatness of the name IMO.) If they don't qualify perhaps the name needs to be expanded. BTW if anyone could supply the qualifications for what makes a submarine for this thread it would be extremely helpful for those of us who weren't around when these names were hashed out or came into widespread use. (I got the opaque looking transparant part.) Do they have to be from a certian time period/NLRs? Does it matter what the surface colors are? so forth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Here's what I'd consider to fit within the definition of submarine, as it applies to Pelts. Other types posted in this thread (green base etc.) I don't think I've ever heard the term applied to. Not that 'Pelt submarine' makes much sense to begin with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I love that marble!Good pictures too.Thanks for showing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARBLEMISER Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I think I may have a Submarine! And the pattern forms a perfect corkscrew. It's the Superboy in the upper left of the first picture. Here's what it looks like backlit. This one might be called transparent, though parts of it look more translucent. Opinions, please, thanks. m!b$, Top left? That's the one I thought you were asking about in your first post> I thought that it looked like a Sub. but with only one view it was hard to tell. IMHO That is a Sub. FWIW marblemiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Thank you! No, I was initially asking about top right, but actually I'm wondering about all of them except bottom right, which is completely opaque. The others are all at least somewhat translucent/transparent, and top left is the most transparent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbboy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 From what I remember about he top right one it had a transparent blue base (hence being able to see bubbles), with ribbons of some colour under the surface that are opaque and look light blue. With red just on the surface. So my question is, is the base considered to be transparent on that mib? There is not a ton of it sure, but it looks like it makes up the base at least? Yes? No? My memory sucks sometimes and you have it inhand. I trust inhand over my memory anyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 The best I can tell you is that the top right one has a translucent base that allows some light to pass through it, but is only minimally transparent. The center is denser or less translucent, and I don't see any color dipping into the marble... The top left marble is much more transparent, but it also has some areas of translucency, and is denser in the center, and I don't see any color dipping into the marble. Maybe I'll try to get better backlit pictures later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbboy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Hmmm maybe I am remembering wrong? I was thinking of the one bubble that can be seen in the top two pics of the set I posted. The one that is under the red ribbon. Is the glass that bubble is in transparent? If so would that not be the base? I also remember being able to see under most of the red ribbons where there was space before the deeper set light blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Yes and yes. The bubble glass looks transparent, and there is transparent or translucent just under some of the red ribbons. That's what I meant about the perimeter of the marble being more translucent/transparent than the center. But this marble isn't transparent in the sense that you can actually see through most of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Different people do seem to use transparent and translucent in different ways. Marbles which look "almost transparent" when backlit but where the base isn't actually clear enough to see into are "translucent" to me. But I think some are calling 'em transparent. I don't object ... I just keep it in mind ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 OK, here are the best backlit pictures I could take. The first marble is a Spiderman with aventurine, shown in the second photo, four views of it. The other three backlit marbles are shown in the third photo in this order: (top right) Spiderman, (top left) Superboy, (bottom left) Spiderman. My opinion is that all four are Submarines. Other opinions welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIRE81 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 The Pelt Sub has a Transparent/Translucent Blue baseglass with opaque orange ribbons. Putting all of the Supermen and Spidermen in a "Submarine Catagory" doesn't make sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m!b$ Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 So a Submarine was named only for one particular color combo with an opaque-looking transparent/translucent base, and not for a particular type? Seems like the name "Submarine" refers more to the type of base than to the colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenb Posted June 16, 2019 Report Share Posted June 16, 2019 Here’s a newly acquired example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenb Posted June 16, 2019 Report Share Posted June 16, 2019 I believe the determining factor is if the base glass glows when backlit. These are NLR era mArbles , color combos can vary . Here’s another with a green base and red ribbons sometimes called a Translucent Dragon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted June 16, 2019 Report Share Posted June 16, 2019 Flash from the past. Wow,! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfay1983 Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 So is this a sub tree then?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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