Ric

Heck yeah, they look great - way better than being packed out of sight!

They're classic Pennsboro Alleys. I like them too.

Blow holes are formed when bubbles near the surface of the marble burst. If this happens while the glass is still hot you will usually get a pit with "melted" smooth edges. If the bubble is just beneath the surface but remains covered by a thin layer of glass that later breaks you wind up with a blow hole that has rough edges. These can be considered as made imperfections but significantly reduce the grade of the marble and hence its collectible value. At least that's how I understand it.

Here's a sample from Sistersville for comparison . . .

It might be but it's hard to tell since the cut-offs are very hard to see. It looks like the camera is focusing on your fingers instead of the marble. You may want to set it on a neutral-colored non-reflective surface to photograph it.

I believe that is a JABO Classic.

Not all Tater Bugs have that bit of frit and I have found it on other types of marbles too.

Those are very nice. Thanks a lot for showing them - I really appreciate it!

A couple of more pics, sorry they're not that great . . .

Primarily, it's the "yellow/tan opaque color base glass" that Ron mentioned - there can be additional purple or green colors too and some have a rice-like piece of frit on them. Here are a couple of more . . . Lady Taters have the lavender/pink striping color . . .

These are three photos from the posts I mentioned. I thought it might be helpful to have them all in one place. I have a lot of Billy's old photos and I'll check to see if I can find others, but I sort of doubt it. And for my own education, I'd appreciate seeing some of those similar German slags.

1 looks like a Heaton. 2,3,5,6,7,8 look like Vacor (Mega) marbles from Mexico. 4 are Marble Kings. Please limit each post to 1-3 marbles. It makes IDs easier to deal with.

I again agree with Chad. This one has some nice color - no doubt, it was a stunner in its day.

I agree with Chad.

Is the "black" opaque?

So it's an Onyx then.

It's a Prizename and if it was lighter colored it might be called a Champagne. It's a pretty one, for sure.

I should clarify that I lean only slightly toward CAC and I could easily see Alley too. For me, a lot of it comes down to the base color and it looks different depending on which part of the marble and photo you look at. I also think I see two cut lines.

All I know is that Billy put this in the hands of quite a few Pelt gurus and the consensus was that it is a Peltier Cerise. I also know that when it was set on top of a group Cerises in a box he had, it fit right in color and pattern wise, even though it was much larger than the others. What direction would you have taken it?

Alley did lots of browns but I'm leaning toward CAC on this one.

I don't see any Alleys. The amber looks like a slag - probably Akro. There are two different green marbles here, right? If so, the one shown in the 5th and last pic looks like a slag too (also Akro) and the other looks like a WVS (pics 1,3,4 and 9?), maybe Cairo? It's pretty hard to sort those green ones out though. It would be helpful if you kept the pics of the same marble together in your post.

It looks Akro to me, Joep.

The bigger the better!

To be clear, I would call the one with creased pontil/cutoff a slag, and I think Chad would too.