Ric

One of Block's books, I think.

I think there is lots of contemporary millefiori out there and the marbles you are referencing are antique and far less common. My suggestion is to tread cautiously.

Man, am I glad you showed up!

Al, I am so glad you were able too finally get together and see it - fabulous is a pretty tame description!

I am obviously wrong about the color, so maybe Barberton - pontil looks melted to me.

I must also say, much of my knowledge of Vitro marbles, and my affection for them, comes from Chuck B., without whom, I never would have been able to pull this one from a pile.

Well, I am glad that worked out as expected. A couple of years ago I had to convince brother Bill that this marble wasn't a Pelt or an Akro before he'd let go of it, and I sure didn't want to give it back!

I am with you! It's the only company where I have seen all of these colors. As requested - one seam is a bit odd. You were on it early, Joep, but I think this Vitro is from Vienna.

I would go along with Navarre. The only other possibility I can think of is Barberton and I don't think this color is right for them.

Hope you don't mind the edits, Chris, you've got to look close at this marble . . . It's a seriously cool core, so fine, almost like a ghost latticino, there are more filaments than first catch the eye, for sure.

That's exactly how I remember them!

He's the guy I got that nice Norland box from!

Leave it to Steph - I so remember this now that you bring it up!

I am with you!

Now you're just toying with me . . . and you know I'm an odds guy. Yeah, Steph, notice the "s" on that "odds" too!

I appreciate the input folks, please keep it coming. It seems we are all in agreement . . . It's not a WV Swirl. 😊

There are a bunch of nice Vienna marbles in this post!

It's a nice one!

Excellent photography, as usual. That last one is really cool!

I agree, this one is the outlier.

There is some depth to the trans ribbons but no where near that much.

I know what I'd like it to be but I sure would like to hear some other opinions!

Just another comment, FWIW. If you look at the text-setting (alignment, spacing, etc.), especially on the word "STRAIGHT", it's pretty much a mess compared to other examples of this logo I have seen on Akro boxes (e.g., the "R" looks about to fall on its face) - again, not the sort of quality I would expect from Akro.

Thanks, Bruce. I guess I never really paid much attention to that section since I am not real big on hand-made marbles. It's interesting to me that they were sized in 1/8" increments, except the difference between a No. 0 and No. 1, which was a difference of 1/16" and the increment between No. 8 & No. 9 & No 10, which were 3/16"each. Honestly, the sizing system described seems a bit arbitrary to me, but I suppose it helped cover the bigger sized ones. The American machine-made system is much more standardized. As far as I know, it uses 1/16" increments throughout (No. 00 = 9/16, No. 0 = 10/16, No. 1 = 11/16, etc.), which makes it much more sensible, at least to me.

Now I'm wondering if it might be Master . . . wouldn't really surprise me too much.