Ric

Jumpin' Jimminy, Chad - that's a really great marble!

That's a great one to get first!

These are great - well worth rescuing. I think the only people who really frown on polishing are people who can't tell a polished marble from an unpolished one. As long as the marbles are not intentionally misrepresented as original in an effort to dupe such people I have no trouble with it at all - better than turning them into landfill.

Okay, I think I see what you're doing - have they changed Charlie's name for these too? #CA4 - 5/8" RED CLOUDS WITH YELLOW. Bright red with cloudy parts inside. Small streaks of yellow are outside. Red is translucent. A very pretty marble. 35 cents each, 100 only $25.00. Sheesh, you'd think people could pick a name and stick with it for a few decades. lol

hare The only Hot Tamale I recall is a JABO Classic - bright yellow on a transparent red base? I couldn't put my hands on any to show, but here is a pic from Santa's Bling - I'm sure you remember these. Did I miss a Champion version?

This one looks like It's had its fair share of fun, and I'll bet it was a stunner in its youth too!

They're beauties, Chad. It's easy to tell you collect these - they're squeaky clean. All of mine have fallen inro my lap and the vast majority of them are pretty rough.

The 3rd marble in the OP is a Vitro Opal. Ron also posted a few earlier.

Just to be clear, I am talking about a specific type of Vitro marble here - an Opal, and not about opalescent glass or opalescence, in general.

I am not really sure, Rick, but consider this: A single run could last for hours or days, maybe even weeks, depending on what they are making. Over the course of the run, things might change a bit, and marbles produced at the end of the run might look a bit different than those at the beginning of the run, and could be referred to as "end of run" marbles. How exactly you might know this, or which end of the run corresponds to which marbles, without actually being there, is above my pay grade. And I think the term is pretty useless with regards to machine-made marbles. Hybrids on the other hand occurred when they were switching base or striping glass to make a different color scheme. Imagine Marble King changing from green to blue striping glass while keeping the yellow (think bumblebee) base glass flowing - the hybrids would be blue green and/or blue and green ribbons, depending on the particulars, I guess. Of course, all of this is IMO.

Wow, you have found some great marbles in the past few months. The bags are newish but you could probably get a better idea of a date by looking up when they changed the choking hazard warning from 3 yrs to 5 yrs (it may even be 6 yrs now). It looks like someone had some NOS and managed to get $12 a bag for it, and there are some pretty nice marbles in there. But the marble that grabbed my attention is this one: from this pic: Any chance you could show me some more of it?

If you put the pics I took together, it's pretty easy to see the difference, I think. Charlie's Flame (left) and two Pumpkins, aka Hot Wheels (right). But yeah, the color of the Flame base looks way more like a 🎃 to me.

These boxes have been found with a variety of different marbles. But the determination on these marbles was made by comparing them to dug and known examples. Basically, I just got lucky when I found this box. You can follow this link for some recent discussion.

The Vitro-Agate Company, The Marble Museum's Guide to the Glass-Agate Company, 2005, by Chris Cooper and Michael Johnson. Not many were printed and it is VHTF.

In this pic, I think you have one Black-line All Red (far left) and two Yellow Jackets (the other three colors on white), a Blackie (in the back - two same color patches separated by black ribbons) and maybe an odd Tiger Eye (up front). The way to distinguish the Black-line AR (far left) from the Yellow Jacket (far right), is to notice how much white is showing on each - far less will show on Yellow Jackets and their colors tend to be more bold. Below that pic is a nice Tri-lite, another Tiger Eye, another Tri-lite (with the buttermilk color), another Tiger Eye, not sure about the second to the last pic - more views would be helpful, and in the last pic, you have another Tri-lite (left) and you called the Tiger Eye!

Nice group, Chuck. I think Charlie's "Pumpkin" (your "Hot Wheels") have a redder base and more yellow, and Charlie's "Flames" (your "Pumpkins") have a less red base and less yellow. Regardless, I think they are probably just different parts of the same run. Charlie was, no doubt, quite the salesman, and he probably had plenty of "Pumpkin Flames" too. 😄

Thank you for posting that bit of history, Al. It's probably as good of an explanation as I've heard and I can't imagine a much better source. What I take from it is that Du-lites are the "real bland older" Vienna marbles, and it does seem like the marbles I posted fit this description. But then, it seems Chuck thought "that Conquerors & some other marbles with only two colors [including white] are Du-lites", and that seems to describe what I referred to as mono-lites in my post (I wasn't counting white as a color), and what I referred to as Du-lites are in reality Tri-lites. And before reading this post, I would not have referred to any of the marbles I showed as Tri-lites. I guess they all seem a little too Conqueror-like to me.

Those are nice light displays. I'd like to have one with about 25 holes in it for 5/8" marbles. I remember back in the day there was a guy (was it John Ives?) that used to sell a lot of Cairo marbles. He would setup some tables he had rigged-up to display hundreds of under-lit marbles, and those Cairos would put on a heck of show too.

The last three photos are especially nice, sort of other-worldly.

Thanks, Al. I really should redo that post and photo.

I would guess Vacor on that one.

I think these were sold over a number of years and the contents may have varied from early to later dates. That said, I think the insert boxes are usually centered on the sides with a row of shooters above them and another row of marbles below. Sorry I can't help more.\

I'll bet there are European diggers who could make educated guesses but, as far as I know, that sort of info has not been organized or published anywhere. And I do understand that there were some cane-cut marbles made in America back in the day but I don't think there is much info available about them either.

Although you can get lucky . . .

I just keep finding them . . .