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A big Jolly Roger?

These are Asian marbles. Some might call them Imperials. You can find aventurine on these types. Your best bet is to get them in direct sunlight and look for a glittery sparkle.

Thanks for showing the Akro ware! These are my favorites.

Show us those big ones, Bill!

This is really cool, nice work. Thanks for posting it! ". . . some valued as high as $10." That's about $185 today.

Nice blue on orange there, Bill! How big is it?

I like the orange on that 3rd one, Bill. Here's a weird one - thin oxblood ribbons, with one thick one that runs pole-to-pole right through the center of the marble.

Oxblood under blue - a blueblood, I think?

Hey Bill! I'd guess CAC (1st) or Alley (2nd) on the first one. The other three look like Heatons to me, but . . .?

I am not seeing CAC. It looks more Master to me.

They're all nice. That center one is interesting. I'd really like to see the one that's barely showing! Here's a weird one:

How big are those? Some of them do look like double ingots - others just look like nice big Pelts!

Nice lutzes! Some JABOs are full of it. In fact, I don't have many lutz marbles other than JABOs around here.

That's really cool, Mibber, it looks like an art sculpture! Newer Marble King Pixie Dust marbles: I think they're very nice.

I really like Vitros . . . but is it red? ^^^This guy represents the team now. Nice onion skin too!

If the "John Deere marbles" you are talking about are in a labeled bag referencing the tractor company, that is probably a fantasy bag too. But I am pretty sure I see some neat looking older marbles in the bunch as well. It'd be fun to see what kind of groups you could put together and take photos of if you looked for the marbles with the most different colors, those with nicely-colored clear(er) glass or those with the most interesting-stuff going on inside. In general, marbles are fun . . . welcome to the club! 😄

They say that Master tried to produce machine-made marbles that looked like old German onion skins, and sometimes you can tell.

I got a large marble collection from a local woman who had collected for many years. She must have liked pinks, purples, lavenders, and pastel colors in general because I found a lot off those kind of colors in her collection. This is one of them. Are these colors less common?

I tend to agree. But there could be a few interesting, likely not valuable, older marbles in the bunch. Heck, I love looking at marbles. If I saw that group laying somewhere, I'd look through them, for sure.

Forgot a pic! . . . kind of red^^?

Simply sweet!

Nice marble, Bill. I'd keep that one! Turns out, it's hard to find a good "R"! I am big a fan of the Vitro-script "V"s and that's a nice one!

What's that spell? 🙂

That last one is really nice, Jess.