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Thanks a lot, Ron - I was hoping you'd chime in. It's one of the best Cairo snakes I have seen - back on the shelf it goes!

That movie creeped me out! So now. . . that marble is in a locked box, inside of a safe, in a barn, about a mile away. Thanks, Brad.

I posted this one a few years ago with no luck, or even suggestions, as to what the ID might be. I am thinking it might be Cairo but I would love to hear some other ideas - it's one of my favorites. It's snake-like, nice head, nice tail and a coil and a half - a good UV glow too. In the sun: Any thoughts?

Hello Carl, welcome to The Marble Connection. That looks to be a West Virginia Swirl. Several companies made similar and they are pretty hard to ID definitively.

What do you see in marble #2 (second marble first two pics) that makes you think Peltier?

I have been dying to get out - hoping to find a few bigger ones up in Michigan next week.

The second one looks like a machine-made that got spun, not exactly sure what though. I have a red one that looks a lot like it. And CAC or Akro would be my guess on the first.

I think Pelt for #s 1, 3 & 4, and maybe Vitro for #2.

I'll guess Akro Tricolor on the first, Alley on the second and a very nice Vitro for the third.

A couple of dandy marbles there, bo.

They're Pelts- good call.

We refer to some of the marbles in both pics as West Virginia Swirls. A number of different companies made them, one of the most prolific was Alley Agate. These are the marbles that have random swirl pattern and lack the seams you will find on Akros, Vitros, Peltiers, and others.

Greetings, marbles can be all kinds of fun! It looks like you have a mix of vintage marbles - I would guess from the 1930s-60s, maybe later. I see Akro, Vitro, Peltier, Alley, etc., and maybe a few newer ones from Asia.

Many of them glow under UV too, and I think they made the brightest "lipstick" red color you'll find.

It looks like some type of impurities - it's not so uncommon to find stuff like this in a marble -unless it's actually mica in an old hand-made. It is much less common when you see it in the form of a patch, or a ribbon, like that last Pelt you showed.

Oh my, Joep, I can not believe this! What a generous gift! It's awesome! I can't wait to see it lit up!

They are very handy for 5/8 and smaller: https://www.dynalon.com/PublicStore/product/Sterilin-100mm-Square-Petri-Dishes,502,211.aspx

Me too, but a lot of 2/2s are now NLRs too - even some baseballs, I guess. And FWIW, I consider the Miller Swirls to be NLRs too. Although, . . .?

I think the categories NLR, MCS & Rainbo are imperfect, and I really have no idea how people distinguish one from another. The blue and yellow on white one you're showing is not a MCS, and I don't think Rainbos have six ribbons, I also don't think folks will call it an NLR so . . . I am hoping someone who knows the differences will give us both a good explanation! I just read this explanation on the Peltier Info Site, "Peltier Rainbos are a later development growing out of the NLR line. Many of the same colors are used but the main difference is in the ribbon NLR ribbons are laid across the surface of the base where Rainbo ribbons extend into the interior of the base glass." So maybe it is an NLR, and the number of ribbons has little to do with anything.

Is that a Wolverine on the left? The colors are right, but I'm not sure, since I don't think I've seen one that big. Nice marbles.

Nice, I like the old-school look of Kokomos.

I think they're all nice Multicolor Swirls.

The one color swirls like #3 are often hard to ID since several companies made ones that are nearly identical. I think you should check for AV in that blue one, since I think I see a little green leaking out of the blue, and it does look like it could be an Alley.

I couldn't find my original comment so I will reiterate here. What I hoped to say is that it's harder to find rainbos with clear transparent glass bases and colored ribbons than it is to find those with colored transparent glass bases and white ribbons. But it's fun to collect the white-ribboned ones in colored glass because there are some colors that are harder to find than others - like aqua, and chartreuse.