#61 To round out Rolf Wald's cat's-eye contributions I exhibit an 11/16" to 3/4" double ingot, 4 vane, single color (yellow). Thanks Rolf!
#62 I thought this was a single-vane European marble but from the get-go I've called it a MIST, CAGED & VANED cat's-eye. Finally on a serious 2nd look there are in fact 3 distinct white vanes but surrounding this 27/32" marble are MANY veil-like filaments (ribbons) of cobalt blue creating a mist effect. I bought this from Mark Thompson and he doesn't mess around with cheap marbles!
#63 On full authority (Patry Denton) this was identified as a Canadian Purple. It is basically a 5/8", 4 vane (white) with an overlay of light and dark lavender that appears almost burgandy at its extremes. The 'backsides' of a couple vanes do appear quite white. And there are a few snow-like objects attaching themselves to the vanes. Looks a little like that fish disease.....Ich!
#64 Metallic cat's-eye 5/8" Simple 4 vane, single color (green) with a spattering of Silver & Copper metallic. Can't ask for much more!
#65 A 17/32" (Almost a pee wee) Banana in light green glass with aventurine specks throughout. Should be with my colored glass banana group (Photo #4) but it's too small.
#66 You will probably have to use your imagination with this marble as i know when I get around to it it will not photograph well (All these have been photographed in the sun). I call it a BLACK AVENTURINE LATTICINIO 5/8". This is a 3 vane, deep purple with sparkle to spare. It lights up! Beyond the tip of one vane in a 1/4"+ wide area running from 'pontil to pontil' are 15 or so fine thread-like latticinio filaments. It's remarkable and there's probably a reason for it.....
#67 Vacor hasn;t done much in the way of cat's-eyes but this one surely makes up for it. I got a few of these early on from Marlow Peterson. It's small (9/16") but makes up for it with a multitude of vanes all around and they're bright blue, yellow and orange. Green too if you backdrop the yellow with blue! Definitely a multi-vane.
#68 Green Translucent Banana in clear glass 5/8"+. The clear glass has no bubbles but the green banana has to have hundreds.....thousands of various minute sizes. It looks like the Milky Way.
#69 Blue & Green Aventurine 9/16" to 5/8"- Slightly oblong. A 6 vane, 3 color pastel blue and green with white. A rare color combination with great sparkle. It also has a stray narrow translucent orange vane/ribbon.
#70 Peltier Pee Wees 7/16" each. 3 vane. Orange, Yellow and Blue.
#62 I thought this was a single-vane European marble but from the get-go I've called it a MIST, CAGED & VANED cat's-eye. Finally on a serious 2nd look there are in fact 3 distinct white vanes but surrounding this 27/32" marble are MANY veil-like filaments (ribbons) of cobalt blue creating a mist effect. I bought this from Mark Thompson and he doesn't mess around with cheap marbles!
#63 On full authority (Patry Denton) this was identified as a Canadian Purple. It is basically a 5/8", 4 vane (white) with an overlay of light and dark lavender that appears almost burgandy at its extremes. The 'backsides' of a couple vanes do appear quite white. And there are a few snow-like objects attaching themselves to the vanes. Looks a little like that fish disease.....Ich!
#64 Metallic cat's-eye 5/8" Simple 4 vane, single color (green) with a spattering of Silver & Copper metallic. Can't ask for much more!
#65 A 17/32" (Almost a pee wee) Banana in light green glass with aventurine specks throughout. Should be with my colored glass banana group (Photo #4) but it's too small.
#66 You will probably have to use your imagination with this marble as i know when I get around to it it will not photograph well (All these have been photographed in the sun). I call it a BLACK AVENTURINE LATTICINIO 5/8". This is a 3 vane, deep purple with sparkle to spare. It lights up! Beyond the tip of one vane in a 1/4"+ wide area running from 'pontil to pontil' are 15 or so fine thread-like latticinio filaments. It's remarkable and there's probably a reason for it.....
#67 Vacor hasn;t done much in the way of cat's-eyes but this one surely makes up for it. I got a few of these early on from Marlow Peterson. It's small (9/16") but makes up for it with a multitude of vanes all around and they're bright blue, yellow and orange. Green too if you backdrop the yellow with blue! Definitely a multi-vane.
#68 Green Translucent Banana in clear glass 5/8"+. The clear glass has no bubbles but the green banana has to have hundreds.....thousands of various minute sizes. It looks like the Milky Way.
#69 Blue & Green Aventurine 9/16" to 5/8"- Slightly oblong. A 6 vane, 3 color pastel blue and green with white. A rare color combination with great sparkle. It also has a stray narrow translucent orange vane/ribbon.
#70 Peltier Pee Wees 7/16" each. 3 vane. Orange, Yellow and Blue.
