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I've been trying to ID this mib for a long time

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Ric Grand Master

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20 minutes ago, browncat73 said:

Yeah unfortunately thats where i'm at with it

It's a simple fact . . . not all marbles can be positively identified, and transparent swirls are notoriously difficult since many companies made very similar marbles.

I like the sort of "chevron" patterns on this one - it does look like it got spun on the rollers, whatever it is.

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I use-to have a few quart, like, maybe 4, jars given to me of what this appears to be in your first top left photo. ; Circa 1996 Jabo-Vitro, made ,with a thin wispy, milky translucent in a nice transparent Cherry-red, clear and with or without a little bright transparent yellow.  There's typically a dash of a bright, in contrast, yellow transparent in them that reflects out at the right angle or light source. I only kept 7 or 8  different examples for one reason or another. and literally, as they were coming up at Ebay, hard to sell for being newer plus, folks had not a clue siting as antique slags. And, I could hardly give them away. I'd have to find one where the yellow was bright enough, through an angle where clear let it come through, as the red didn't like letting the yellow stick out, and con kids into liking it enough to take 1 or some home. 😅

I just checked mine and I'd picked the best and different verity of the run.. Such as, one has no red or yellow but swirls really nice. Another is mostly red, clear with no yellow. The best of all is really hard to see that, some of the transparent yellow looks like is not but opaque-ish yellow. I cannot be absolutely sure it's not too. Of 100's it's the only one that strong, in the place it's at, in there, Doubt it's opaque-ish. . And one example that looks just about like yours, and mixing where, if yellow was wanting to be there, it changed by blending in. . 

There were variants that didn't stand out I didn't bother with, but many had the bright yellow transparent, like, randomly in front of the white. 

Yours's does not appear to have bright yellow, but the red looks to match and clear, what? Clear is not a danged color yet, yours does look a lot like mine. I also have a boulder from this run or the same red, but alias, no yellow nor clear to speak of, just that milky white and Cherry red. . 😉

Some did not swirl as much to give it tastier appearance as yours does, and whelp, duh, those that did which obviously wasn't many, I kept. 

Oh forgot, opalescence when lite through, like many other with similar white, yes. Also, 1 more thing: Jabo wasn't taking care back then and so, most of their stuff, could have tiny hits and chips right out of cooled production. Not all but enough to not get the Huggy's.

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ann Grand Master

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I'm a fancier of Champion furnace swirls, and no, that`s not one.

Jeff54 seems to have it as close as I think anyone can get.

I also agree with him that "clear is not a danged color yet." I know it uses more words, but it really should be "transparent colorless." It`s what I try to use, but then I`m a retired art historian, and therefore a terminology freak . . .

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