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Calling All Cat's-Eyes


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Also, I have some sort of gut instinct which makes me want to refer to this type of

marble as a 'cat eye', without the apostrophe and 's'.

No idea if there are marble people out there who agree with me on this point.

I could just be making this up because of my recognition that Americans seem

to enjoy adding 'esses' to words wherever they can.

. . . . . .

Does this have any connection with determining the perfectly correct name for this type of marble?

I don't have a clue! :lol:

I call them cat's-eyes (with both apostrophe and hyphen) because that's how Marlo Peterson -- who wrote the first (and so far the only) book on cat's-eyes -- did it. He had a little reasoning about it in the book but I don't remember what it was, offhand.

The "s" in "cat's" is just the possessive.

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I'm overwhelmed by some of the cat's-eyes here! Winnie, yours are particularly stunning! And Bill, that blue Ottowa cat's-eye with the orange , , , growth thing on the blade is amazing. And Ray, how do you do that?? What's your max vane number? Wow . . .

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Oooh.

Aventurine black somewhere in them.

If you make a small one (under 1 inch) let me know!

(I have 3 or 4 tiny swirls of yours, and a little airplane sulfide. They could use some company, maybe).

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Take it out of the bag, Ric.

Take it out of the bag, Ric.

Take it out of the bag, Ric.

Take it out of the bag, Ric.

Take it out of the bag, Ric.

Take it out of the bag, Ric.

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