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Akro, IMO.

It looks hand gathered to me but being white on clear makes it hard to see detail. It doesn't impress me as MFC, the pattern looks more Navarre to me but I really can't tell. Can you get a nice strait-on close-up of this area? Does it look like there is a pontil or seam there?

Cleaning it wouldn't hurt, although it might not help too much. Like Fire said, it looks to be mostly pocket-wear - just mild surface abrasions. The thing is quite old after all. Who knows what it's been through? Start off by just giving it a bath with room temp water and some dish soap. A soft brush would be okay but be careful around any damage and don't use a wire brush or anything too harsh or abrasive. You never know, it might help a little.

All I am going to say is, WOW - that is a sweet marble! Kind of a shrunken core end of cane onion skin lutz - it's nutz!

That's an Alley from the St. Mary's location.

Bottom line . . . that is a dandy marble - I'd even say special. Nice find!

Nice marble. I think it would be called a two color ribbon lutz swirl. Barely submerge it in water and take look (and a photo for us too). I think you'll be happy you did. 🙂

Yeah, that UV glass is a little unusual . . .

One of my son Jake's (RIP) favorite JABO Classics (13/16") It was a gift from Ron Shepherd (RIP).

2003 JABO Classic "Superman" (3/4") . . . a little weak on the blue.

2001 JABO Classic "Rebel" (3/4")

Yeah, those are just small generic display boxes, not original packaging.

Just some clay foils 5/8" - 15/16" . . . Some of Hopf's "Brilliant Marbles", perhaps.

Wow, that is one oogly mib - very cool. My guess is QC fell asleep and you got lucky!

I think the first is Pelt and the last two are Akro. The second one is a little odd - I have no good thoughts at the moment. A couple of different views might help.

The first two might be Pelt. The third is not really a patch - looks JABO to me. Hard to tell on the last one, might be another JABO.

The first and last might be JABO (I wonder about the 3rd one too) - no Vitros, IMO.

Vitro would be my last guess - I think it's Pelt. I've posted a couple like it before.

You sure you don't want to start with Vitro or Akro? 🙂

I think Fire is right on track - might all be Vacor (Mexican) in the center box, but the off-white one could be about anything given the single view. They're good photos too but they'd be even better with the lids off the boxes. As far as I can tell they are all common types.

Nice one, Chuck. It's got that deep purple and a bit of "whitewash" over some of the striping glass - something more common on the Sistersvilles than other locations, in my experience anyways. Thanks for showing it!

@Fire1981 Here's one just for you, Fire - one of my favorite lefties, finished off with a little back-spin. 🙂

I'm with Art and seeing Akro, where you can see them. These types were common players in Jumpo-Marblo games made by Rosenthal.

I can see that, Fire, left handed people may well have spun the majority of their marbles one way and right-handed people may have spun most of them the other way. But I think that would be most significant for single-gather marbles. I'm not so sure it was as significant when pulling and twisting canes. And I have a feeling that which side of the glory hole they were working had more to do with looking into it and seeing what they were doing rather than which direction they were gathering the marble.

Thanks, Art. They did make some pretty ones. No oxblood in these though. That upper right green/white/purple type is the reason Winnie (RIP) and I made a trade - we wanted to compare them. Some of the transparent swirls can look a bit like Veiligglas too, but you can certainly tell them apart. In 2013, when we made our trade, Winnie was probably the only girl in Europe to have a nice selection of Sistersville Alleys, and she thought that was really special. I still miss talking with her. She was a lovely person with a really big heart, and she sure loved marbles.