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Posting some good ones lately, Joe! Red Zebra variants, a beautiful pink patch (why do you think Pelt?), and what appears to be a killer Vitro Tiger Eye variant that could really use a bath! 😀

And I'll bet they are something to behold - you just don't see that many good hybrid Bananas together often!

Lucky, no matter how you look at it! Were they all yellow-banana-based hybrids? What other colors were there? What a great find, Jeff!

Happy Pelt Tuesday!

Some kind of an odd Akro Corkscrew IMO. Really cool one though!

Both nice, Dave, but I really like that red color!

Nice group of Veiligglas, William!

Very nice Heaton, Joe.

Nice Allry Joe - kin of the Lady Tater IMO.

That's a really pretty marble!

@PittsburghMarbles That looks like a great day to me!

The small ones are much harder to find than the larger sizes. I like the size range in the examples you show!

This is a Vitro Phantom Conqueror.

It looks like there is a lot of transparent in it, which might rule out Imperial. Did it sell as a Master?

Oh no, I am not calling anything into doubt - they look Akro enough to me. Maybe they ran a peewee machine to make them only for wholesale to jobbers like Rosenthal, and just thought it would be cute to put one in those Popeye boxes. I mean, Akro never sold bags or boxes of 000 marbles under their own name, correct? I wonder if anyone has found any paperwork indicating that Akro sold peewees in bulk.

I would say foreign too - maybe Imperial, maybe Vacor.

Swee'Pea is Popeye and Olive Oyl's child, or the peewee marble packaged in those Popeye boxes. A Sweet Pea is a green based Vitro with yellow and red/pink (or a flowering plant, or a vegetable). Let's not make things anymore confusing than they already are. lol

@akroorka Man, you think those wafer-looking mibs like the one I posted are the worst? I think they're pretty cool. But I don't think the ones Jzook6 posted are the same type as the one I posted - not even close.

@Chad G. Quoting myself, aka, doing an Art . . . lol Maybe this is how the debate was resolved - finding that peewee patches were placed in those Popeye boxes . . .

@Chad G. Thanks for the links. So any Akro peewee is called a Swee'pee, regardless of colors?

Ha! I just realized that the Aquamilk on the left in the last photo is the same marble as the one in the group of Aquamarines. lol

You're right many Popeye boxes had a single peewee in the compartment with the bag. Art has talked about it too. I am not saying these marbles aren't Akro - they sure look it to me. I just want to hear if and how the debate was resolved.

It looks Akro to me too - what size is it?

As for the pattern, I think it may just be a wholly machine-made marble that got spun in the process and that it is probably not hand-gathered. Sorta like these.

We need @Steph to take a look at this thread. I know there was considerable debate about where Rosenthal acquired the peewees for their games and I am not sure if it has been resolved. The fact is that Akro made very few marbles at the 00 size (9/16") let alone smaller 000, peewee, size mibs. And to fill their game boxes, Rosenthal would have needed a ton of them so . . .?