This marble has some checking (small cracks in the glass) in it which I tried to capture in the first picture, which was hard to do. There is so much going on in the design that I would say the checking is not really noticeable from a display standpoint, but you can see it when you look for it of course. The marble is flat out beautiful, but I have lowered the price to reflect this issue, a chance at a large beautiful marble at a great price.