Ric

I forgot an "or" after the hyphen in my original post (now fixed) - a Serpent is a Vacor.

I'm sticking with Ron, and JABO - or maybe an old style Serpent?

My heart hurts. Many of you know that Ron and I were very good friends and that we shared countless good times and adventures together with Bill McCaleb over many years. Ron taught me most of what I know about marbles and I could not have invented a better mentor. Some of my fondest memories are of sitting together with him and sorting and resorting gallon after gallon of WV swirls, sometimes for days on end. And this was at a time when precious few people knew anything about most of the WVS companies or the marbles they produced, and the vast majority of collectors payed them no attention at all. Ron played a key role in changing that. His love of WVS marbles and their history led him to produce a huge body of research - many trips to WV state archives and libraries, interviews with company principals and employees, and digs at nearly every location where the marbles were produced allowed him to make very significant contributions to a number of marble books and to the hobby of marble collecting more generally. And his willingness to share what he knew with anyone who was interested greatly assisted many individuals with their development as collectors. But the most important things I know about Ron don't have anything to do with marbles. He was one of the most respectable people I have ever known, and I mean that in every sense of the word. He was respectful toward everyone, kind to a fault, thoughtful and empathetic, and he had a way of making people feel better - better about themselves or better about a predicament they were experiencing. Ron was a very wise man. He lived his life largely in service to the people he loved and to those people who were lucky enough to call him a friend. And his magnanimity extended to every person he met. This was the Ron Shepherd that I was fortunate to know and the man that I will dearly miss. I extend my most heartfelt condolences to his family, Nola Morgan, and to the many other people who mourn his passing. RIP my dear friend. You will never be forgotten.

The first is a LimeAde

1) No name that i know of 2) Multicolor Swirl 3) Sunset 4) Vitro Bull's Eye

It appears that most or all are Type IV Tiger Eyes.

Hard to tell whether the black on green are pistachios or not without UV info, and the Peltiers are nice but . . .?

Yes, foreign - I think Vacor (Mexico) made some similar, otherwise, Imperial (Japan) as Melissa said, or maybe even China, not any American or German I recognize.

Pelt seems like a real possibility - not seeing anyone else's really, an unusually large amount of white, as you say.

From the looks of it, my guess is someone's favorite Alley.

IMO, Vitro upper left. Looks like Master upper right. Not sure about lower left - looks like a messy Vitro from these views. Peltier Peerless Patch lower right..

I think this would be a Type IV Tiger Eye - nice size.

I see the quandary - it's a tough call. I am on the fence, leaning slightly towards an odd Peltier Peerless Patch.

Yes, Master and Vacor.

Good bunch of vintage marbles - just a few JABOs in the mix, I think . . . 1) a Cat's Eye - maybe Heaton, tough to tell from these pics. 2) typical blue Master Brushed Patch. 3) pretty little German hand-made laticino. 4) another German hand-made solid core. 5) German hand-made "Peppermint" 6) A cool looking big one - I'll be interested to hear what others have to say about it. I am thinking it's contemporary - perhaps Bulgarian, but I am not 100% sure. 7) Looks like a stone - maybe agate? 8-10) I believe these are all JABO Classics made between 1992 and 2008. 11-12) West Virginia Swirls (WVSs) 13) Vitro Conqueror, one of the most common vintage Vitros you will find.

Nice TriLites - a Superior, lower right (yellow bounded by red).

I do like that patch - nice marble!

I'm digging the Vitro!

This is a nice marble, Joe, I'd say it's a Vitro but you are leaving a lot to the imagination with just one view! 😀

Three of four look Akro to me. Does that upper right marble actually have blue in the white?

Alley seems right to me. Are they all not a smidge over 1/2"?

I don't think I've ever seen an Akro Popeye Box with just Sparklers or Oxbloods in it, but I'll bet more than one Mom filled them with whatever was on the floor.

I think a "blue zebra" would have opaque white base glass with opaque blue striping - like a Zebra, but blue - not sure there is a named one though. Your little pretty has a transparent blue base glass with white striping for the ribbons/vanes.

I think the OP marble is in the Tootsie Roll family but the ideal is quite a bit more bold. Here's one from the https://www.peltiermarbles.info/ site (looks like @cheese's background?). Basically, a transparent amber six-ribbon Multicolor Rainbo/Swirl structure with salmon/orange and white striping glass.