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Caged cat's eyes tend to actually form a seam-to-seam "cage" of vanes/filaments in the marble and wirepulls are one continuous filament/ribbon, so I don't think either of those terms works here. In my mind, they are swirls.

They are Vacor but I wouldn't call them caged cat's eyes. I don't know what they call them but I am sure someone else will.

Thanks a lot, Dink - I appreciate you! Do you have any idea how common the sprayed ones are relative to the unsprayed ones? Jake had lots of the unsprayed ones and only these two that were sprayed.

These are also Peltier Rainbos. The structure can vary considerably.

This lemon isn't quite ripe . . .

I believe that is a JABO Classic.

My first thought is CAC.

That looks like an Alley to me.

Maybe you should shower. 😁

I don't think it's vintage or American - might be a Vacor.

Chuck is an old-timer and I'm really glad to see him back. I think he's just catching up and didn't realize how far back he was looking. 😄

I think it may be a newer Vitro but I have a hard time calling it a patch. To me, it looks more like a game marble that didn't get enough blue to cover the entire surface.

@shiroaiko That is a precious little box of toys - what a great find! The rock-paper-scissors pieces are really neat. I find it interesting that the pieces have Arabic numerals on them and that the rock-paper-scissors pieces are included. Do you think these boxes were made primarily for export? Was rock-papers-scissors a popular game with Japanese children? Do you find similar glass mamekeri or ohajiki with kanji on them? Sorry for so many questions. 🙂 I find this all very interesting. Thank you for sharing it with us!

That gold looking stuff.

Yes, by hand using a torch, not by machine, but I couldn't tell you if this marble was made by the thousands in India or China or if it's something else. My guess is the former.

I agree, Chuck - hanging out in the "archives" today - huh? The deep archives are definitely one of the best things about the Marble Connection - they are second to none!

All I can say for sure is that it's modern and probably torch made.

You can see the reflective surface treatment (and pretty much everything else in the room) much better in this photo. Pretty sure these are from 2005.

I completely agree, Chuck. Where were we 10 years ago? 😄

It's pretty full up and they look correct for the tin to me, Joe. Wouldn't it be nice if lots came with guaranteed IDs? 🙂

Yes - a West Virginia Swirl.

These pics make it look more like a Peltier Peerless Patch, as Fire suggested. The vast majority of Peerless marbles have opaque colors. Although, I have seen several different colors of transparent patches. I think I have seen red, green, blue and maybe yellow, but I don't recall orange. It would be interesting to know how many different transparent colors there are. I am thinking some of them could be quite rare.

Helmets are probably one of the more common types of Vitro TriLite. But good vintage marbles are getting harder and harder to find, in general.

The first is a Peltier Multicolor Swirl. The second looks like a JABO. The third is some kind of a Vacor. The fifth is from one of the newer JABO contract runs, and the fourth may be too.

Likely just decoration but it might have been used in a ball valve or something I suppose. The photo is not that sharp so it's kind of hard to tell what's going on.