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Everything posted by Ric
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I think you found yourself a very nice early American marble, Tommy - single pontil. All I can think of is Navarre. It's a keeper, for sure!
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The mint green is great! Wow, another super board!
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@schmoozer should do it! Just know that if the topic title says CAC, I'll be posting Champions . . . 😜
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The way the forum works can take a little getting used to but it'll be worth it in the end. You and your boys will learn a lot about vintage marbles and you will introduce them to a very fun hobby that they could enjoy for a lifetime. Thanks for your persistence!
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Maybe I can get you started and save you some time. Marbles 3 & 6 in the second row of your last picture are one of the most common vintage marbles you'll find (#4 in that row is just an odd one). They were made by Vitro shortly after the second World War and are referred to as Conquerors. You have lots of them in your collection. They have white glass, that appears to be painted on, covering about 2/3 of the surface of the clear transparent glass body. The other 1/3 of the marble has colored glass patch on the surface. You will also notice that they have two "seams" on opposite sides of the marble. The surface patch can be one of many different colors. Hopefully, you will now be able to go through your collection and pull these out.
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That's a dandy marble, Tommy!
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N Nice ones, Tommy. Keep an eye out for AV in the green ones like that - you might get lucky!
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Sounds like a winner!
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You could just title each topic Help Amber 1 Please, Help Amber 2 Please, etc., or something similar.
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Not a bad layout but waaay too many marbles, Amber. To tough scrolling up and down and trying to keep track of which picture, which row and which column. Please post only 8-12 marbles in each topic. In other words, start a new topic (not a new post) for each group of 8-12 marbles. The multiple views are great though. I want to help but this sort of post make it too difficult.
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Not CAC (Champion Agate Co. or Christensen Agate Co.). Most likely Alley. 😁
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I suggest February 29, 2024. 😁
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Nice batch glass white on this mib!
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I am going to modify my thoughts to say 3 JABOS, the Ravenswood (best in the bunch) and this oddball that might be Peltier but seems a little off to me.
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Alleys and a Ravenswood (right marble in pic 3). Pic 4 may be an Alley Ghost but it might be JABO too. Bottom marble in pic 1 might be a JABO though. Might need another view or two (different sides) of the marble on the right in pic 5. Now I think the left mib in pic 3 might be JABO too.
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I'm digging the crazy All Red, William!
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I can't shake a JABO vibe but I could be wrong. It does look a little Alley-ish too.
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What size is it?
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I'm pretty sure the top 2 marbles are Marble Kings (a tricolor on the left). The third marble in the second row up from the bottom might be a Vitro Elite. The one right above it and the one in the center of the bottom row also look Vitro. The second marble down in the last row also deserves another look. Many of the others, but not necessarily all, do look like Imperials. Try to limit a single topic to 8-12 marbles in a grid. And show us a couple of sides of the same marble - just roll them a bit and keep them in the same grid position, and take another pic. It'll make it easier for us.
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It's a good looking marble - the thin blue tracer makes it even better.
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It looks like Alley to me, Tommy.
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Welcome. You have a nice mix of vintage marbles and there are many folks here who would be happy to help you identify them. I can identify most of them from your picture. The problem is identifying which marble I am talking about to you. You can make it a lot easier for us if you arrange 8-12 marbles in a grid and post each group in a new topic. If you can show us more than one side of the same marble that could be helpful too- just keep the marbles in the same grid position so we can refer to them by row and column.