Ric

I think it a JABO.

Wow, I've got to figure out a way to cut down on reflections - sorry.

Nice one, Dave - heckuva glow!

I'll like this marble no matter how often I see it!

It really just depends on the company and the run. Game marbles often have patterns similar to the company's other marbles, just one color, and I have seen very nice patterns on some of them.

I'd guess Alley but it might be some other company.

I would guess Champion, basically, a game marble.

I'd say JABO on the first one - it's not Sistersville.

Haven't heard of the "signature 7" but it looks like a slightly odd Corkscrew to me.

Practice pays! 👍

I'll stick with Champion.

Yes, a Sunset.

I agree with Roberto.

It looks so from here. The key is .. . Is it one continuous stripe? And it looks like it could be Champion to me.

I think they're probably all Pennsboro, although the last one could be St. Mary's too - some types were made at both locations.

I think the term Tricolor Rainbo is not commonly used anymore- Multicolor Rainbo has replaced it.

I agree.

Very odd Peerless Patches? The second does look like a Lazy Corkscrew, and I wonder if they both might be dug Akros.

No, just a Rainbo.

A slag of some sort - likely Akro but need more views to be sure. It looks a little wonky, whatever it is.

William's got it.

Last pic, 3rd from the left looks like it might be hand-gathered slag, like Roberto said. The second from the right looks more like a WV Swirl than a slag and so does the dark (black?) one. I would need more views to say much more.

A Vitro Conqueror missing its patch.

#3 is a Multicolor Rainbo and #4 is a Rainbo. I think you have the others correct!

Maybe I can clarify. All marble companies produced many marbles that would not pass their quality control process for a variety of reasons. They might be fractured, out of round or misshapen. Or sometimes, workers on a shift might have been too beat to package their quota and the marbles got dumped on the factory property. I am sure there were driveways in WV that had as many marbles as stones in them. The discarded marbles were used as fill under cement floors, in french drains, etc. After the factories closed many of these marbles were excavated by diggers and found their way into the hands of collectors. An example might be Akro's Popeye Patches. The vast majority of these types were discarded because they did not form corkscrews like they were supposed to, but they were dug up on the factory grounds and many of them are collectible today. I hope this helps clear up your confusion. It's important to remember that marbles were made as children's toys and were used to actually play marble games with. Companies prided themselves on the quality of their marbles - their roundness, solidness and eye appeal. Hence Akro's marketing lingo "As straight as Akro flies". The last thing any kid would want is to spend their hard-earned allowance on a package of marbles and find out that several of them were egg shaped and useless for playing marbles with. Such a thing would certainly cause a company to loose favor and market share, hence the discards.