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I would again like to thank all the people that respond to my many posts. I have been off work due to surgery. Today I found out I will be off for another month to recover. Marbles have really been a bit of a savour for me. Therapeutic for sure! I have had down days, and I head down to my office, sort marbles, take pictures and post them here. When I guess one right, or find something really cool, it makes me happy. I have learned so much in a short time on this site. Sometimes I get over zealous and post a bunch in one day. I apologize if sometimes I fill the page. Just know, this is a day I am sitting, and healing in my own way. Thank you again to all that respond to my posts. I have had some dm chats with some of you, and welcome anyone to drop me a message. All the best to all of you. And thank you one more time!

I have had a few pocket marbles over the years but the "magic bean" is the one I've carried ever since I found it digging the Alley Pennsboro site with Nola, Ron and Billy. It's one of my favorite things. 🙂

When I first started collecting, it was for any Akro I could get my hands on of course, and back then money was always tight. The Cobalt and wispy White were one of the first combinations I actively hunted, couldn't get enough of them, but I had to sacrifice in other areas in my life in order to afford these back then, and now they have a sentimental place in my collection . What I love now is Orange, love that Akro Orange, all 254 shades and transparency/opaqueness of it lol (please don't take that seriously, I have no idea how many different Oranges there are). I also love Spirals, translucent bases, Periwinkle Blue, marbles that 'appear to be same run' and finding them at different times and locations, and certain dug marbles. I know I'm all over the place but it's all Akro. Here are some of my Akro out in the Florida sun ☀️, usually when I take my marbles outside it's to get them out of the path of a hurricane 🌪️⛈️ So this was nice.

She was one of my first oxbloods. She's pretty.

This one even featured a few from my collection. A lot of lingering questions were answered in this video. Thank you @stephenb!

Another one of Billy's good ones . . . Bill McCaleb that is - his pics.

I've got a marble mail from a local collector here in Japan and it included some interesting photos. According to chigasaki_seaglass (on Instagram), the screenshots were originally taken in 2019. They show listings from an auction site and he recalls the seller was an American collector. I wonder if anyone here might recognize who that was? The first box features Rupert the Chick and the Stripey Tiger, a UK comic series for young readers which ran from 1920 to 1957. All of them show the color combinations that I associate with Seike, so they are most likely crease pontils. The second box is of Reg'lar Feller's with the same kind of transitionals.

I remember way back in the day, I think it was Big John Ives (RIP) that had a backlight set-up that he made to show off his transparent and translucent Cairo Novelty marbles at shows - he may have had a couple of them. Each was like 2 ft x 4-6 ft and must have had 800-1,200 holes drilled in it where he set the marbles. As I recall, there were fluorescent lights underneath. You know a lot of Cairos don't have much eye appeal but if you put some light behind them they light right up and look real pretty. And I will tell you, his display was really something to see. Does anyone else here remember this? Here's a little tribute to Big John and his Cairo marbles . . .

A local seller is advertising these are Oxblood. I do not know how to identify them, as everybody says they have Oxblood. If these are, I might try to trade for a couple for my collection. Thanks!

"Just Corks" are you kidding--these are Akro Corkscrews---the best marble ever made. Marble--On!!

@Fire1981 So is this our first one?

Nice big 🫙 for 40 . Ill roll the dice ...I am in Vegas...lol

I recently had a business trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in South America, and on the last couple days of my trip, I had my business partner's mother direct us to the antique/thrift area of the city. There, in an alley pavilion with hardly a roof put over it, I managed to find some marbles in South America. I have been on the hunt for unique marble collections for the last ten years, after discovering their art and historic value, I have been fascinated to find many marble collections over time. This one though, is very unusual to me, since I found it in Argentina, and it seems to be a very old. I believe these are mostly Master Marbles from the 1930s. I found them in an old Van Cleef & Arpels Paris box, with a purple felt-lined jewelry box inside, with some marbles that had already been sorted. Bedded beneath the box, was a loose-marble collection of various tyles, swirls and slags, I only barely sorted them in zip-lock bags, but the photos I am sharing is of the unpicked collection, I only cleaned some of the mud and dust from the marbles. I think there might be value selling this as a collection, rather than one marble at a time, so I am showing you a 'raw' find, I haven't picked through this collection at all, it's just sorted and cleaned, and I'm wondering if there might be a story behind how all these amazing marbles managed to get down to Buenos Aires. I took some photos, under normal and UV light. The marbles in the jewelry box are highly reactive, the slags and swirls in the zip-lock bags not-so-much, but I plan on taking more photos soon. I would love to know more about these marbles, to perhaps preserve them as a collection, before I might star selling them individually? Thank you for your feedback, I will wait a while to make an educated decision about the collection . . . I might need to pay for another trip to Buenos Aires soon though, so let me know. Chao!

I thought I’d share this pic from his book for educational insight. These are VVVHTF🔥 RAR

Many thanks for the pictures! I just learned from a 2023 post by @cheese on All About Marbles that this picture group originally came from a post by Steph years ago. The thread by @cheese is titled "Mushroom Type Info and Pics Thread," posted on March 11, 2023.

The first generation we call "Black Line All Reds". Those without a black line (like yours here) we just call newer style All Reds. BLARs started around 1959 and NSARs started around 1969 or so, I think. Marble King actually made some that can look very similar. As for the color variation, different glass, different day, temperature, humidity, etc. etc. BLARs . . .

Just want to post what I will have coming up the next while. Bought a massive collection today at an antique market. Nobody here really cares...lol. I know the group here will understand my excitement. There were thousands. I sorted them all and got the last 3 pictures to explore and sort I hope you don't mind my excitement. More to come shortly!

I just got these two at 36 bucks total. Both .65-.68 glossy mint. The oxblood has wispy blood all over it and the Popeye is not a common type and is also wispy. Both high quality.

I think many of us have gone through that phase. Your photos of the snakes are just outstanding - absolutely gorgeous!

Back lighting is a good way to enjoy these cute little orbs. It does have some value in the ID of marbles. Backlighting them all is my motto. Nice stuff here. Marble—On!

I went through a period of backlighting and taking photos of my marbles 🤩

I love a backlit marble photo…but they are hard.good idea for a topic.let’s see some more?

Here’s an example. The patch is only on the surface glass and no activity in the matrix. Most are white. Imagine taking a paint brush and lightly brushing it on the surface glass. The patch is opaque🔥 RAR

I've been a bit quiet on Thursdays lately, so here's a boxed probably all original Glevum Games set - likely early 20th Century. Interesting that all the marbles have some black glass, including two same cane single ribbon cores.

Here's an oogly one. . .

Maybe JABO but it looks more like a Vacor to me.

I think that is an MFC slag.

Almost every WVS company did green on white and the shades can vary quite a bit even within a particular company. There are so many white based swirls out there that you often have to look at structure and pattern to tell one company's from another's, and in some cases it's just not possible to say for sure who made a particular marble.

@Ric Sure! Here are examples of Seike's crease pontils. Naoyuki Seike started making his first transitionals around 1924. These puzzle boxes came to me June 2024. @Joe2 Joe Valencia was the former owner of them. Seike's green often has dark green bits in it. Below is a close-up of spidery crease pontil. As for pinch pontils, I believe they were made by Yasuda. Yasuda was the third largest marble maker in my country before the war, after Seike and Isogami. His Shiba marble factory is known to be started from 1933. Ukichi Yasuda himself served as the vice-chairman of the marble makers' association. The original photo was from an eBay listing which Winnie reported back in 2015.

Oh what the hey, I think if you put some bright white around that patch you'd have a Vitro Wedding Cake. So there you go, three people, three different takes - you know what that means . . . You're gonna have to figure it out yourself.

Agree on oxblood. Just make sure to closely look at condition so that you get Mint ones.

Just a couple of Billy's good Sparklers . . . His pics too.

Few nice ones from the week that was!

I’ve been looking for this color combo for a very very long time. I’m hard pressed thinking it has an ID name attached to it. Either way I’m totally 🔥up to get this one🔥 RAR

it’s always good to find a nice shooter in a hobby lobby traditional bag…

Levvy nailed it. I can never remember how to spell veiligglas so I usually think of the these as vegetable glass🔥 RAR

Vitro might have called this one a Dulite. I would expect a more opaque patch on a Conqueror.

I agree - but there seems no stopping the FB "experts".

Yep! Marble--On!!

Pelt. Definitely

Not going to be the most exciting post for many of you but every Tuesday night is Mega Marble Assorted Bag sorting night. I usually pick up about 10 bags a week and make up my own 24 + 1 shooter sets or add to inventory until I have enough for sets. Tonight was a pretty good night and I only had 5 casualties. Sometimes there are a lot more that don't make the cut. Got a bunch of rather unusual oddballs this time ( stack on left side middle ).

That one looks more like a JABO Classic to me.

I think it's Vacor - Wicked Owl, maybe.

I have seen this exact type of marble posted before in the past. It has been a mystery and the Board name for this one has been referred to as a Peltro. Agree to disagree and call good. The Horse Hair is another trait I attach to Vitro. The question there has been there should have been a Horse Hair on each side of the seams. It’s a simple marble and have always enjoyed the debate with these. As Art would say “Marble On”🔥 RAR🚀

I was really just wondering if I was missing something that made it obviously Heaton. Heaton did use similar colors and I can see where you're coming from, but here is what I see. I see the seams you see. I see colors JABO used. I also see the "S" sort of structure, the striations in the base, which looks like it has some clear mixed in and is too weak (sort of translucent) for Heaton. I see what appears to be a tight "BC" - it seems to some out of the lower portion of the "S" in the first small pic and extend on into the middle lower pic. And then there is the white washed over the black in the lower left pic. That's why I lean JABO. And you'll never hear me bad-mouth Classics. JABO made some great marbles and this would surely be one of them.

It's probably been 15 years since I had that one in hand but it's an over the top Copper Head, as Fire said.

Some day, I will try to take individual photos of the marbles in that CODEG box, AIko. Your last comparison of the marble I got from Winnie with the one in the box is part of the reason I still think the boxed marbles are Veiligglas. 🙂

I want to say Vacor "Tidal Wave".