Ric

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.

What size is it?

Production, meaning regular production - it's a JABO Classic made sometime between 1991-2007/8 in a run financed by JABO. The Contract (or Investor) Runs went from 2007/8-2012 and were financed by different groups of investors who made marbles at the JABO factory - these are the named runs, Joker, Foxfire, Mamie, etc.

The first is a creased "pontil" transitional - perhaps Japanese. I think the others are Vitro Conqueror variants - not slags.

Patches, 9/16" to 15/16" . . .

That's what I was thinking too.

Yes, JABO.

@Joe2 Nice TriLites. @Kimbernugs Yellow Jackets are less common than many other types of Vitros. Yellow Jackets . . .

I'd guess Alley upper left, and maybe JABO on the right ones, and Champion lower left, but the big circular reflections in the first three pics are really distracting and make ID difficult so . . .? Your backlighting is not what I am used to seeing, it looks like just more light to me.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the upper left one - it looks like it has three seams?

Lower right is giving me JABO vibes but not sure.

What I see is Akro lower left and MK for the rest but that might change if I saw a view of the patches.

The lower left is giving me a Master vibe.

It looks like a JABO to me.

The colors are a bit different than the one Jeff showed but the pattern is similar - I was never quite sure where to put it. Below is @Jeff54's for comparison . . .

Here is an Alley Snake that @Dave 13 posted a while back . . .

These look to me like nice examples of marbles that were packaged by VEB Werk für Technisches Glas Ilmenau. As far as I can tell, they were in operation from 1969-1990.

Here is an interesting excerpt from an article titled Relics of the Fire, that was published in The Little Corporal: An Original Magazine for Boys and Girls and for Older People Who Have Young Hearts, Emily Huntington Miller, Editor, Chicago, March, 1872, pp. 109-10. "The toy shops—alas! how can I tell the tragedies there! Dolls with glass eyes melt- ed out; wax dolls with complexion melted off; long haired beauties, with not a hair to their heads; all black and horrid. Square blocks of beautiful glass marbles welded together, and bent as though made of wax; chunks of china dolls, of all sizes, joined for life in grotesque ways. But, saddest of all, china babies in bath tubs, who it seems are packed in pairs (one turned upside down on another, as you put a cover on a dish), . fastened together in such a way, that one of the unfortunate babies must always sit on its head!"