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It's really different. I can't wrap my head around the structure from these photos. Look a bit like an Imperial (Asian) type with a big fold in it.

Yup, typical Rainbo.

I think this one may not be American.

The first generation we call "Black Line All Reds". Those without a black line (like yours here) we just call newer style All Reds. BLARs started around 1959 and NSARs started around 1969 or so, I think. Marble King actually made some that can look very similar. As for the color variation, different glass, different day, temperature, humidity, etc. etc. BLARs . . .

@disco005 Marbles always look their best in good sunlight and you really took advantage of it. These are great photos of a nice variety of Akros! Which is your favorite? 😄

Cool All Red (newer style - no black line). Vitro made tons of them, literally. These are hybrids of blue and green. They are less common than those with only blue or green, but they are not too uncommon. You can find hybrids with other color combinations too.

@shiroaiko I had never seen the "Rupert" box before - it's very interesting. I imagine a child would be happy to get that as a gift. Thank you very much for posting it! The marbles in both boxes are very nice. The blue marble up front in the group shot of the "Rupert" marbles looks unlike the others to me but it may just be the angle. I really like the paper applied to the cardboard marble slide boxes in all of these sets! @Al Oregon Great additions, as usual. What do you think of the marbles showing in the second set you posted? They are obviously very different than those Aiko posted - they appear to be wholly machine-made.

And yes, they are old pre-WWII marbles.

Do you see opalescence in that Flintie (aka Fire Opal)?

Rainbo all the way.

Excellent Alley, IMO.

Nice Alley!

I do think they are Japanese - Nippon Special Glass Ball MFG Co? @shiroaiko

Those are known as "Figure Eights" but at the moment I forget who made them.

Gives me a bit of a Cairo vibe but I think it could be one of a few different company's.

Maybe, but it would be a very unusual one, IMO. When I see marbles like this I try to think of foreign possibilities.

In my experience, white Pelt slags are incredibly hard to find and even harder to ID since so few people have ever seen a verified one.

Thanks for digging that up, John. That could easily be the box I saw. I don't remember where I saw it but I can't imagine there are too many of them. That would definitely be a box worth having.

Yeah, I agree with Vitro.

Whispler would be my guess too. Kinda cool with a little twist on one pole.

I always thought this was a Peltier . . .

I'm thinking JABO.

I don't think it's an Antifreeze.

He made a ton of them and it's hard to tell from just this pic. I like the big one best.

I remember once seeing a 100 count box with a row of 10.