slagmarble Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Accident or no I've never seen one of these before...still looking for that clear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Congrats. And thanks as always for the comparison shot. Seen pictures of clear one(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slagmarble Posted February 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 It only took 9 years to find one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 It's new to me too - nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Yup. They're out there. But transparent colorless with white feathering still eludes me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibstified Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 I'm seeing a sweet orange slag but am not sure what makes it a Pelt slag. Seems to have closely spaced waving rather then feathering, which is the only hallmark I am aware of to distinguish Pelt slags from other slags. I have a handful of orange slags and would appreciate folks sharing some of the other attributes besides feathering, that would distinguish a slag as being Peltier. Thanks, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slagmarble Posted February 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 They have a few traits in common... 1. Seams, even if they aren't obvious they are there somewhere. It's also not unusual to have all of the surfaced opaque white limited to one 'side' with the other being submerged. 2. The feathering isn't limited to just the surface of the marble and even if the opaque white dies off somewhere inside there is an optical effect like sugar dissolved in water that traces the same pattern below the surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 . . . and the patterning is as much "Venetian blinds" as feathering. The best examples exhibit chatoyance, a favorite word I learned here in a long-ago thread about Pelt slags. Move the marble, it can look like blinds opening and closing. Or the pattern resembles wood grain. This banded agate bead shows what the marble makers were after . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migbar Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Some more Peltier orange slags, made before the "feathered" type... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migbar Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Here is another Peltier slag, but it isn't feathered, either, and it's not even orange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slagmarble Posted February 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Here's another oddball...Purple - Lavender - ??????. Whatever it is it looks like a cool gray color in normal light and backlights to an extremely pale blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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