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Marble mail days are the best days of the week! Sincerely grateful to add this piece to my Leighton collection. Always on the hunt for great Leighton made marbles! Measures 1 7/16”. Thank you for looking!

Master Tigers Eyes

Here's kind of a neat one... Peltier "Poison Bee"

Another shout out to the York Nebraska marble museum and cateye1212 on ebay! Scored these two awesome deep amber pinch pontil Yasudas. One of them even has some nice teal inclusions!

Kim here. Favorites are JABO/DAS and more recently NLG. Have only been collecting about two years. I go to a lot of estate sales so have quite a bit of "everything"... or they might be nothing. Time & ID videos will tell🤭. This group has been super helpful... so glad I found you.

J.H. Leighton’s 1891 patent for the manufacture of solid glass spheres marks a major step forward in early American handmade marble production.  His process began by hand gathering molten glass on the end of a steel rod, carefully building up the amount needed for a single marble. While still hot and workable, the glass was rotated within a grooved former, shaping it into a near perfect sphere while remaining attached to the rod. After the marble was formed, it was cut from the rod, leaving a small rough projection where the glass had been severed. Rather than leaving this as a simple cut mark, Leighton refined the surface through a controlled finishing process. The marble was exposed to a concentrated flame, softening the uneven area without disturbing the rest of the sphere. Once properly heated, Leighton applied a specialized concave tool similar in appearance to a small golf tee to the softened spot with light pressure. This action pushed the remaining glass back into the body of the marble, smoothing and blending it into the surrounding surface. The result is the distinctive “melted” or “pressed” pontil, a defining characteristic of Leighton’s work and an important innovation in the evolution of American handmade glass marbles.

Been awhile since I dug these out for some fresh air. Enjoy

Thank you, Tommy. Another note: That packaging was a second generation. The first generation (2003) had the trimmed bag top up inside the header. The marbles were trapped (not removable). I decided to invert the bag so the zip-lock was at the bottom. That allowed the marbles to be removed for enjoyment.

Its not sounding my JABO memory, but It could still be. Vitro is my guess.

A Jabo we recently added and some MK and this pretty little box

It's Akro Friday ❤️

Oh I really like this one. So glad for all the close up shots too! Wonderful collection and great video you put together. Thank you! Click on the link to You Tube Worlds Largest Marble King Collection - Curated by George Armann The sound effects and background music is always a plus. You are a funny one Stephen, I'm a big fan. Thanks!

.80” corkscrew double ribbon auger with akro dug cullets

there is also the "Destroyer" which was a black based speckled marble made by Vacor style up to the year 2000...these are fairly rare and hard to find. "Destroyer" second set down in the photo below:

Wasp

I never did get a watermelon

good Sunday! 🎧 3.mp4

Today I received a letter from Maxx's father, who turned 93 years old this January. The letter was written by his wife. I am withholding his name for privacy. "Maxx's father was a seminary student preparing for the ministry around 1956 or 1957 when the company went bankruptcy. The cause was a trusted employee who took all the company funds and disappeared. This was something I heard from my mother-in-law many years later. After the bankruptcy Naoyuki spent his remaining years battling illness. He attended our church wedding in October 1963 in a wheelchair. 2 years later on the morning of 13 October 1966, he told his wife 'Smile, smile. Heaven is here,' and passed away that night at 10 p.m., surrounded by family."

Heaton, htf color.

I really do see what you're getting at. These which you are showing today are nicely constructed. Wish I could be more helpful. Signed, Here for moral support

Forgot about this one, was with my Popeyes… 5/8” there are 4 black hairs tracking the yellow.

And I am thinking Vitro... Agree with pretty awesome mib either way!

Master with aventurine 3/4”

Needless to say, Linda and I are huge Akro fans. The 1 inch uv slag is the newest addition to our collection. ☺️🙏✝️🙏

May have one or two Akros or Vitros in here

Marble King Sunset

Marble King Sunrise

Those Snakes are awesome! And just in case it has not been said enough, Akros are super cool!

A bit of swirl and Master love

This is my best quality German Handmade, although still not perfect, it is at least closer to Mint than any of my others

Great! I am really pleased that these Vacor are exciting so many people, unlike in the not very distant past

Peacock- Core 🎧 2.mp4

Berry Pinks

Akro tri color i believe. Cool one 👍🏼

Added one more sunrise to the group

@shiroaiko We are all hoping that you may be able to share photos of family marbles after a successful meeting.

1° Peltier 2° MK

I'm seeing Master on the last one on the right. If I had to guess, I would say Akro Pelt and Master. In that order, first picture.

I am aware of some old handmade styles which could be deemed confetti. But almost any confetti you would run across in the wild would be a modern marble.

Agree. Have been watching Stephen Bahr videos on many different makers.... also have some books. My marble group members (Midwest Marble Club) have also been helpful to the newbie with 1000+ marbles. I've had them for about two years but illness and death in my family kept me from really diving in. Thus, just kept acquiring when could in hopes I would get to them someday. Someday finally arrived this winter and I'm surrounded by marbles in plastic cases with little slips of paper and scrawled names! I've learned a lot but know just tip of the iceberg. I'm looking to purchase a copy of the book "Peltier Glass Toy Marbles"... know expensive, but did spring for the CAC red one and LOVE IT. Also trying to find the Peltier Marble poster from Stephen Erst, but I'm late to the game in trying to get that as well and striking out. I bought two jars of Vacor recently but again late to the game to get book For the Love of Vacors. But I'll keep looking for them all and hope to score yet. Really appreciate this forum as I'm not on facebook. Thanks y'all!

These MK have fantastic colors, I’ll have to decide to chase them more..

Wow!!!!! I won! Now will you give them all to me? 🤣

Ravenswood or Alley, leaning Alley IMO, West Virginia Marble either way

Types like this are very difficult to ID but I think at that size, it's probably a JABO or maybe DAS.

Love the colors

Also 5 5/8” crystal red corks.