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I think both are Alley. The transparent red based ones are not too easy to find.

All but the lower left are Alley IMO.

That is pretty cool, Hack. It doesn't seem like it would be heavy enough. How big is it, and how much does it weigh? Any idea why it has holes in the top?

They do fit together nicely in a group, Winnie. And I agree, the base and striping glass in my marble is quite a bit brighter.

. . . or maybe a Cairo Red Lightning (S.Org).

Very nice, I especially like the multi-panel one!

Those are great, Winnie, and they are similar, for sure. But I am pretty confident mine was made here. A number of different WV companies used similar color combinations.

The way the clear cuts deep into the marble and the ribbon ends have me leaning Alley. And those are great patches!

One of their better ones, IMO.

Well, there you go. Thanks, Mon!

Nice marble - Superboy (Superman w/o yellow), I think.

I don't doubt it's a Peltier, and a nice one too. I am just trying to figure out what the range of "Bloodies" look like. It seems there is so much variation within that 'group' that it hardly means anything.

That is a dandy marble, but it looks a lot different than the ones in the Bloody boxes I have seen. It seems like there is such variation in this group that "CAC Bloody" has little if any meaning. In addition, I could not distinguish some of these marbles from dug Alley examples.

I think there are also Masters called "blizzards" or "snow globes". Have these types been dug at the factory? I ask because I suspect that some VHTF 'Peltiers' are Kokomo marbles.

"Plunger" seems to be a poor descriptor of its function. I like regulator better - if that's what it actually does. A plug to keep the glass in the tank until it's ready to flow seems sensible too.

I could see a corkscrew too.

I was under the impression that the plunger was used to regulate the flow of the stream, which came out of the tank by gravity. When you say the plunger was used to "push the glass into . . ." and "plunge the molten glass through . . .", what do you mean? It seems like it would be hard to push molten glass with a pointed object.

I've not seen an Akro with clear in it but I can guarantee I haven't seen them all.

Looks like a lemon-lime to me.

Nice Cat Eyes, Don. Thanks for posting the pics. The blue and orange combo is super!

Thanks for the thoughts, Ann. I am pretty confident that if the middle one isn't a Peltier, it's a Vacor (In fact, I am leaning that way). We know they can look pretty close structure-wise, and the colors and glass just don't strike me as Peltier. And I agree about the MK swirls, the ones I have had and seen are tricolors too. But it seems probable that they made (and perhaps discarded) versions with fewer colors too, don't you think?

You might find this post interesting.

You lay the heart in a fire or on a woodstove, etc. to heat it up. Then you pick it out of the fire with the stand and set it (heart hanging) on the table. You us a dropper to put medicine in it (e.g., eucalyptus) and you inhale the vapors. Yup . . . I completely made that up.