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And this is a new acquisition . . .

This is the Carnival that Bill McCaleb gave me from his original find . . .

If you're looking at the third photo up from the bottom, I wouldn't call those orange swirls - just a little discoloration in the base glass.

I've never heard of a Ravenswood Picasso either. Is this the marble you are referring to? I'd sure like to see some more views.

I agree, it's a crazy cool marble too!

As usual, I am only expressing my opinions and I am entitled to them. Where you draw your lines, what you call your marbles and how you grade them or value them is entirely up to you. You can call a dinged up Vacor a mint CAC and value it at $1,000.00 if you want, no skin off my back, just don't expect me to do the same. Buy what you like at a price that makes you happy - it's all that really matters.

That's a good Alley but not a Mountain Dew - they don't have any white in the striping, only bright yellow and maybe a bit of orange. Here's another one Ron posted earlier . . .

I agree with Chad on the third, but it is a bit weird. I'm pretty sure the second is JABO and the first may well be too.

Again, it's about the quality of the Sparkler, what the ideal example of a Sparkler looks like and how the variants stack up against it. Here's a box that Bob Block posted years ago. And this is what I would consider an exceptional example of a Sparkler - Bill McCaleb posted it years ago . . .

I might add that Sparklers are not patch type marbles.

There are Sparklers and there are sparkler-type marbles. Where people draw the line can vary, as can the quality of a Sparkler. There are exceptional examples, excellent examples, fair examples and poor examples. The same can be said for all other types of marbles.

JABO is my bet.

They are VHTF - some of them have a bit of orange in the yellow too. Here's one Ron posted in 2020. They have yellow only, maybe with some orange, and never any white.

The green and tan looks Ravenswood and the others look like Heatons, at least to me.

It's a pretty crazy looking marble.- I can't even offer a thoughtful guess as to who made it.

It may well be Akro but I probably wouldn't call it a Sparkler unless there are more colors than I'm seeing - the white filaments seem pretty fuzzy too. Having said that, it may well have wanted to be a Sparkler. 🙂

I think this is essentially a game marble with a little color that probably shouldn't really be there. And like all marbles, they usually show the same types of seams or patterning as all the other marbles from a particular maker. They are generally not considered collectible.

I agree, newer style Vitro All Reds IMO - the left one is just a little odd.

Sure looks like it to me - you'll have a hard time finding a more crystal clear transparent base glass.

Looks more like an Akro Ace to me - no UV glow from the base.

And you didn't. lol

I really do not like IDing Kokomos from photos unless it's a distinctive type that I am very familiar with. They are just so uncommon relative to Peltier that I always proceed with extreme caution. But I know you have already shown some from your collection that I am very confident about, and those cruddy looking bubble inclusions are often, but perhaps not exclusively, a Kokomo trait - just sayin'.

It is a very cool and intriguing marble but these types are definitely not my strong suit and I really have no idea where it came from. It looks hand-gathered though and the colors remind me of many Czech marbles I've seen. Could we see a straight on shot of this area? No guarantee that it will help me much though. 🙂

I am just starting to learn more about these artists and contemporary marbles so I really don't have much to say other than I think it's a fairly common style and it seems pretty well executed. Perhaps @Alan will have some ideas about who made or will be able to correct me if I said something goofy. lol

I don't think I have ever seen that kind of yellow on a MFC. Does it look like there is a pontil on the other side of the marble (opposite the "9")? A few different views might help - my first impression is it that it's from across the pond somewhere.