Roughly How Many Colored Glass Cateyes Here.

[hdesousa]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251511816774

[Ric]

33-34? Or if you mean 'color-based', maybe 1?

[Steph]

What colors of bases have you seen?

I kinda sorta remember blue. ... maybe?

The only pic I can lay my hands on at the moment are these amber based ones.

[hdesousa]

33-34? Or if you mean 'color-based', maybe 1?

I'm not sure of the correct terminology for cateyes.

With sulphides, a colored glass sulphide implies the transparent glass is colored.

If the internal figure is colored, it's a painted sulphide.

If someone said to me the base of a sulphide was colored, I would think that would be describing part of the figure.

In a hand made, colored glass swirl, the transparent matrix is colored.

OTOH, with opaque marbles, the word 'base' describes the matrix, and I suppose that's the way you're using the term 'color-based' in cateyes, to describe the color of the matrix.

So yes, using your terminology, my question is how many cateyes on the board have a color (transparent) base?

[Ric]

Okay, I think two - if the dark one is a cat's eye. I think the others which look like they might be are reflecting the vane color.

[hdesousa]

Actually, despite the seller saying about half the marbles have a colored base glass, none do. (The dark, smaller one is not a cateye)

To me, the base glass in some of the board marbles look as colored as the amber base marbles in Steph's photo.

What are you seeing that tells you the color is a reflection and not in the base?

[Ric]

I am not sure I can explain other than to say I have handled thousands of cat's eyes and the only one (other than that dark one) which I thought might be in green glass is bottom row center.

[hdesousa]

Thanks.

[Gnome Punter]

Clear and green are all I am familiar with

[clydetul62]

I have blue one and MK red one from the dump.

It's also gonna be how you classify a cateye. Some that we may not think of as cats, but are built the same way. Ie. pelt rainbo. Opening a can of "cats" by doing this. Here is a pic (not mine) of some pelt cross thrus. They are constructed just like cats.

[hdale7]

I have to dig it out but I have one vitro caged cat that has light blue almost turquise color glass and not due to reflections either.

[Steph]

I have blue based cage style cats. (Thanks BJ)

[marboman]

Some Vitro caged cat's size 7/8"

[lstmmrbls]

Clyde I have to say that while some may think the set ups for making cateyes and Rainbos are a tad similar they are also quite a bit different

[winnie]

Hansel,That blue cat's eye om the board looks a colored base??

Almost all my cat's have a clear base.

I've a few colored based ones,blue and light blue--green and light green,and brownish caramel.

here's a green base and a blue base.

[winnie]

and here's a brownish caramel.

[I'llhavethat1]

I doubt I have many examples if at all (not being a collector).

Hard to tell from the OP pics.

What are we getting at here?

[clydetul62]

Galen, I was going with a base color. Usually transparent and 4 inside ribbons that usually meet in middle. Looks alone. I know cats can have more veins/ribbons. This would be like the pelt cross thru's. and MK cats. Plus to just muddle it up further. Think of the opaque base with 4 ribbons. It's very similar.

OK back to you Hansel.

[hdesousa]

Hansel,That blue cat's eye om the board looks a colored base??

No Winnie, not even that one. Fooled me too.

Surprising how hard it is to tell just from the picture.

[lstmmrbls]

sorry Clyde I was referring to later Rainbos with color banding on the surface.

[ann]

I have two of the "Windex" blue Vitro caged cats, and one of the yellow Pelt bananas in amber/yellow glass that Alan was selling a while ago. And a few of those Anacortes pink-peach-apricot-based horseshoe cats. Other than that, the only variation from colorless that I've seen I don't really count -- that tint of blue or green that some call bottle glass.

Winnie, those are great green and blue ones! And the more I look at it, the more I like that amber one . . .

And Clyde -- do you have a pic of the MK red one? Must be stunning - - -

Hansel -- I would have guessed that only two of the board cats were color-based. Not surprised to hear that none were, though . . .

[Al Oregon]

Here is a picture of the Vitro pink (left) an peach (right) cat's-eyes. Hard to tell in picture but in-hand, much easier.

[ann]

Good pics, Al, thanks -- hard colors to show.

This is the only pic I have -

[Nantucketdink]

There are some additional Vitro cats with a light tan base and I have seen a Vaseline glass cat before too. I don't know if Vaseline glass technically qualifies as a colored base, but I think it does.