The Alleys u IDd...

[drizzlermibs]

The Alleys u ID'd...

U happy with your ID? Couldn't pick a lens. Nothing worked!

 

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[cheese]

Yup, I'm pretty satisfied with that! Looks like several groups of Alleys to me!

 

[drizzlermibs]

Yup, I'm pretty satisfied with that! Looks like several groups of Alleys to me!

There are a few that challenge me in terms of what makes them an Alley versus a Champion. Top rite pic/top row...the two in the "sorta middle". They have that, what someone else referred to as "squishy" look about them. At the same time I do see that the ribbons seem wider in the Champions. Is it the size of the ribbons/the pattern or pattern direction or the color (or all of the above!) that is the key to differentiate? I know also that they have finer tips.... Once I finish up with the last two color batches, gonna sit down and really study them if possible. I don't know if I will absorb it in the way I want to; but ain't gonna stop me from trying! If nothing else, I AM a persistent little bugger.

 

[cheese]

Pretty sure the whole top row is all Alley in that pic. Some champions have thin narrow ribbons, some wide. It's the general pattern the swirls make, the colors, the tips, the size of the marble, imperfections, tracers, striations, clarity of glass, how the cut end of the glass looks if visible, etc... that all play together in a nearly infinite number of possibilities to give the impression of one maker or another. I am a fast learner and when I take on a new interest I quickly become very informed about it but marbles doesn't work that way. It takes a lot of face time with marbles and I don't think there's any way around that. Time and more time. Looking at pics, surfing the web, handling the glass, and trying to ID them. That's why I love to ID marbles... the more I do it the better I get (like anything in life). I still get some wrong but nobody can ID every marble correctly all the time. I see in my long pelt thread that there is a Kokomo and a Vitro mixed in with the rainbo pics... it happens. You said you are a persistent bugger... so you'll get it eventually!

 

[drizzlermibs]

Pretty sure the whole top row is all Alley in that pic. Some champions have thin narrow ribbons, some wide. It's the general pattern the swirls make, the colors, the tips, the size of the marble, imperfections, tracers, striations, clarity of glass, how the cut end of the glass looks if visible, etc... that all play together in a nearly infinite number of possibilities to give the impression of one maker or another. I am a fast learner and when I take on a new interest I quickly become very informed about it but marbles doesn't work that way. It takes a lot of face time with marbles and I don't think there's any way around that. Time and more time. Looking at pics, surfing the web, handling the glass, and trying to ID them. That's why I love to ID marbles... the more I do it the better I get (like anything in life). I still get some wrong but nobody can ID every marble correctly all the time. I see in my long pelt thread that there is a Kokomo and a Vitro mixed in with the rainbo pics... it happens. You said you are a persistent bugger... so you'll get it eventually!

Well, I think I have some Kokomos in my pelts too..but I always figured they were kind of the same since they used pelt machines? Just know a little more valuable? Do you want to see what I think the ones that may have been ID'd as such?

 

[cheese]

Sure! They are very similar but I think most times the kokos can be IDed apart from the pelts.