AGATE MARBLES W STEPHEN BAHR

[Chad G.]

 

[Tommy]

Cool vid...thanks 👍🏼 

[VaMarbles]

Meet Rich at the CT show this fall.  Great guy and very welcoming to a newbie.  Had some insane CAC’s!   Great video and love the cat. 🐈‍⬛ 

[bumblebee]

Good to see agates getting some love.

I don't have any yellow agates either. They aren't great looking in the examples I have seen. They lack pop and contrast, so I think they stopped bothering to dye them because the results were unsatisfactory compared to the banded agate colors in red, blue, green, black, etc.

After yellow, gray with white bullseyes is my rarest color. Gray/white is the natural color of a lot of agate deposits. You can easily find solid gray agates without bullseyes, but I have only found one gray agate with white bullseyes that is faceted.

I find more blue than green for some reason, though bullseyes of either color are very scarce in hand-faceted ones, and shooters even rarer. I read somewhere they struggled with consistent results with blue dyes, which reflects my blue agates. Many are very dark or have varying shades of blue in them.

Then there are agates that are sort of chocolatey and creamy, orange with white, then black and white ones (often called onyx), then the famous carnelian red agates with white bullseyes.

Below those are the cheaper grades lacking bullseyes or having very faint bullseyes, usually carnelian colors, but sometimes shades of gray.

You can still buy some high quality dyed agates made today that look as good as the better vintage ones to the point you might think they are vintage but for the lack of facets. This seller on Etsy has the best ones I know about: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1515876781/banded-agate-sphere-blue-sagb