Polished pelts

[cheese]

Here you go Moxie, you asked for some pics of Peltier marbles that had damage and then got polished. Note how the ribbons of color either don't meet at the seams, or when they do, they just don't look right. They fade off with a weird taper. The colors that usually rise out of the base and then level out over the surface have been ground off and now you see the ribbons as they are just below the surface before they can fan out on top. Decent magnification shows a perfectly slick surface with no marks from the cutting shears on the machine or the rollers or striations from the flow of the glass. Some tiny bubbles can be seen under magnification that have been ground into, so now they are tiny dished out spots filled with polishing compound, so if you didn't know what they were, they would look like tiny dots of color from the compound (usually red/grey/brown/white). Sometimes you can't see this with the naked eye.

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[drizzlermibs]

Interesting, I can see the traits on the 2nd and 3rd, but not seeing it as clearly on the 1st one xcept maybe in the first pic. Thanks for posting these, certainly helps me in knowing what to look for a lot better. Again, nothing horrid about them, just annoying!!

 

[Molewacker]

Not a Marble person, but A+ on your photo details!