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Thanks for posting this, Aiko. It's nice to finally get some definitive information about these marbles. This 40 ct. box of 9/16" Matsuno's was packaged with the Ohio Arts Chinese Checkers game. We called the marbles "Mt. Fujis"back in the day. 🙂

Thank you for posting this, Sue. I had not heard about Buddy's (@roany poany) passing. I only met him a few times long ago, but he was definitely one of the good guys - always quick with a smile and a corny joke. My heart goes out to his family and all who loved him. He will be missed.

This is a rare German marble, IMO. At 1-3/8" it may be the largest cane-cut slag I've seen.

Two Blue Skies and a Stormy Sky.

This is a nice hand-gathered slag. Striped transparent marbles have two seams and colors (not white) on the surface.

It helps to see anywhere the glass changes from one type to another (transparent vs opaque, red vs white, etc.) - that is where the seams will be too (top and bottom of the marble in pic 1).

It's really important to show us the seams if the marble has them.

It could be a lot of things but that big flat spot means it's not a marble.

These are marbles made at JABO in 2010 using cullet from KOG Co. You can still purchase bags of them from KOG.

The second is a pretty marble. I do not believe it is American. My bet would be an early Vacor from Mexico, perhaps El Aguila. The first is essentially a single color game marble, they were packaged with games like Chinese Checkers. It is often very difficult to tell who made a particular game marble, which doesn't matter much, since they are not really collectible. The small transparent "Clearie" in your other post would also fall into this category.

@Parmcat It seems you came into a group of these. They are pretty colors, although they are not transitional marbles (hand-gathered and machine rounded), they are wholly machine made - a bit later than the transitional marbles Seike made.

The first is a decorated porcelain (China) from Germany and the second is a Bennington, also from Germany. Both were likely made well before your Grandfather served in Germany, although neither are hard to find.

The yellow is nice, Art, but that wouldn't change my ID - I still think it's from Seike and similar to this one Aiko posted. Sorta figure 8-ish, I think.

Two Vitro Trilites - good marbles.

I think it's Japanese, perhaps Seike.