More Slags...

[ManofKent]

I'm struggling with slags...

These are 5/8" so smaller than the previous ones, and feel less 'crude' with very fine white:

 

All three came wrapped together  but in the same UK ebay lot as above. The three look like they belong together.

I don't know where to start with these:

Thanks!

 

[lstmmrbls]

That first one may be a Peltier 

[ManofKent]

6 minutes ago, lstmmrbls said:

That first one may be a Peltier 

The second one in the hand looks too close to not be from the same company, possibly batch. Slightly less certain about the blue one.

The reds do have a couple of surface air bubble flaws that I'm beginning to associate with some pelts.

[Steph]

I kinda thought so too ... that the 2nd one might not have as many Peltier markers as the first but side by side with the first it looked related.

[ManofKent]

1 minute ago, Steph said:

I kinda thought so too ... that the 2nd one might not have as many Peltier markers as the first but side by side with the first it looked related.

Thanks - could the blue be Pelt too or do you think it's just been put with the others?

Are the surface air bubbles a reasonably reliable indicator of Pelts?

[ManofKent]

The more I look at the blue one the more I doubt it belongs, and as the blue glass is more translucent than transparent I probably should consider it a swirl rather than a slag.

 

[Steph]

I think the blue is a slag, but it doesn't look like a Peltier.  

Peltiers are famous for having a "feathering".  Not all Pelt slags did, but that's the sign that we look for to identify a Pelt in the wild.

 

Ray Tetrick posted these on facebook today ... they show the iconic feathering.

 

 

[ManofKent]

Thanks - they look a good match for the reds. The feathering is very fine.

Can the blue be a slag not being truly transparent? I'm still confused on what separates slags from swirls.

 

[Steph]

1 minute ago, ManofKent said:

 

Can the blue be a slag not being truly transparent?

 

 

I guess the answer to that has to be "yes", since all I see is slag there.   But I'm not up to explaining the finer points of slags.  I'm just at the "know 'em when I see 'em ... usually" stage. 

[ManofKent]

Just now, Steph said:

 

I guess the answer to that has to be "yes", since all I see is slag there.   But I'm not up to explaining the finer points of slags.  I'm just at the "know 'em when I see 'em ... usually" stage. 

Thanks

[lstmmrbls]

The feathered pelt slags are gob fed . Peltier made millions of handgathered slags before the feathered types

[ManofKent]

46 minutes ago, lstmmrbls said:

The feathered pelt slags are gob fed . Peltier made millions of handgathered slags before the feathered types

Gob fed is  using a water cooled tube to create a thin stream?

[Steph]

The gob feeder was a mechanical way of dropping the right amount of glass onto the roller. 

It replaced the hand-gatherers and their punties.  

[ManofKent]

9 minutes ago, Steph said:

The gob feeder was a mechanical way of dropping the right amount of glass onto the roller. 

It replaced the hand-gatherers and their punties.  

Thanks.