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Sizes up to about an inch. The base glass is usually about as good as it gets - crystal clear and bright, and the standard colors are vivid. They are usually vane-less but that can vary a bit, and the vanes come in shapes from thin bananas to fat more globular ones (my favs). Here's a few big ones:

That's a nice marble! Rotten Banana?

Thanks for the thoughts, Steph . . . now I have even more ideas, and I told you that was already the problem! lol

I have had this marble for a long time and I have shown it to quite a few people. It's a nice marble, but it's a mystery to me. I wanted to post it here to see if anyone has any thoughts, or perhaps new thoughts, about its origins. I have several ideas, and that's my problem. 🙂 Any thoughts will be appreciated.

I think these are Champion New Ole' Fashions. But it's hard to get a good look at the marbles with all the reflections. In your first pic and last pic, they look like they have the pox or something, and it's cause by the mat you have them sitting on. Something non-reflective like gray t-shirt material makes a much better background for pics.

Postcards are like little tidbits of history. It's interesting to me that the card was postmarked in Otsego and delivered to Allegan, which is about a 15 minute drive away - today. For most folks In 1910, it was probably a 5 hour walk or a good horse ride, because these were small towns, I doubt there was train service, and only rich people had those fancy horseless carriages.

Yup, the patterns on game marbles aren't usually too different from the rest of the marbles a given maker produced - makes sense too.

Now there's a great Vitro! Thanks for sharing them, Ron.

Perfect, thank you very much, Ron! I thought you'd know what I was asking about.

I spotted this one earlier too: How about a better look?

They are a little better. I was trying to get a good look at the seams, and I am still leaning Akro.

There's not a lot to go on with these pics, but from what I can see, I'll guess Akro.

Is that crusty-looking stuff around base of the nub stone or does it look like dried adhesive? I wonder if that was a decorative knob or something similar, and if that little ridge at the base of the nub was there to hold glue, since it doesn't impress me as a very good marble for play - just doesn't seem like it would roll very well.

I too am sorry for your loss. The marbles are foreign and newer and are likely limited to having only sentimental value.

That one is unused. But this one has a nice message on it.

The brown one looks like some sort of onyx, maybe - with a bit of a nub on it?

Can anyone show me a pic or describe a Vitro Tomato? I think they're big marbles, red-orange would be my guess but . . . ?

It was a good find, Tommy. They're getting harder and harder to come by.

That's a really good question, Tommy. Truck loads of marbles were used constructing the place. Maybe they just dumped them in the lake and let the kids find them as they washed up on the beach or maybe they're now entombed in the concrete of Navy Pier.

Chad'll be looking a good long time to find Waldo in this pic. lol And I'll give you a hint . . . huge arched windows full of marbles! If I saw that place as a kid, I probably wouldn't have been able to control myself. Can you imagine how awesome that must have been, especially if you were 3-4 ft tall? Wow!

You know, I do see what Ron saw on that first one - it does look like it could be an odd Vitro with weak colors. But I am going with foreign on all of the marbles here, other than the first Vitro and the MK.

Can you spot the Master Marbles House?

They're are some decent marbles in the bunch, and some of the Tangerine Slags sure fit that bill. These gotta be the "Ole" Fashions, Ron - my bad!

Me too, it's almost a problem!

I'm pretty sure that Charlie Stutsman (RIP), who named and sold a lot of these NOFs in the 1990s would have referred to 6 of those as "Tangerine Slags" - you've got a nice variety of that type.