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Doogle
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 Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject: vitro pictures |
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Here are the requested pictures of the possible Vitro. I hope that this is the right marble. If not, let me know.
13/16", and it looks to have little bits of sub-surface particles. I don't know if it is adventurine--it could be. There is one small flake on this marble. Otherwise, it is a beaut.
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orbboy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Yep that's a Vitro. I'll leave it to a more qualified Vitro person to give it the proper name. I'm thinking an Elite. A bigger one to boot. Not quite sure if it meets all Buttermilk qualities. |
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marblemover
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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looks like a buttermilk to me. when they're that big, they get kinda ugly (in my opinion).
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Doogle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| marblemover wrote: | | looks like a buttermilk to me. when they're that big, they get kinda ugly (in my opinion). |
Oh yeah? Well your mother wears army boots! 
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marblemover
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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i collect Vitros, and to me, the Buttermilks just aren't as spectacular as some other named veets (like Aquamarines), and the bigger Vitros get, the weirder they can look. yours is nice Buttermilk, i'd say.
don't mean to offend...it's just an opinion.
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Doogle
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| marblemover wrote: | i collect Vitros, and to me, the Buttermilks just aren't as spectacular as some other named veets (like Aquamarines), and the bigger Vitros get, the weirder they can look. yours is nice Buttermilk, i'd say.
don't mean to offend...it's just an opinion. |
Paula, I was very much teasing!  I am so new at this marble collecting and identifying that I have not yet decided on what I like best. So far, it is all good!
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marblemover
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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i figured you were kidding--just thought i'd explain my comment so some one else would take offense.
btw, your mib is a hard one to come by!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe for full effect it should be and has been traditionally phrased as follows: Your mother wears combat boots! Dvaid |
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Doogle
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| David Chamberlain wrote: | | I believe for full effect it should be and has been traditionally phrased as follows: Your mother wears combat boots! Dvaid |
You are right! I knew that sentence looked awkward. I just could not figure it out. I am in no way biased toward any of our Armed Services. Army, Airforce, Navy, Marines--they all wear combat boots. I think even the Coast Guard wears combat topsiders. 
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| A buttermilk would have a red band on one side, a parallel red/blue band on the other side and a translucent buttermilk, yellow base, sometimes with white. But they vary considerably. The blue may darken towards indigo on larger examples like this one. The name was ID'd by a chap who worked at the Vitro Vienna plant but if it was guys at the plant who named it or kids in town...well that's unknown. Chuck Dennison and Roy Kays provided this info. to Chuch Brandstetter. David |
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