Ric

I agree with Vacor - maybe Neptunes.

Wholly machine-made marbles are cut from a stream of molten glass by a shearing mechanism (shears). Each marble has two seams or cut-offs (shear marks), You will find the cut-offs on Popeyes and other spirals on the top and bottom of the spiral.

I think it's a Vacor - Mexican.

Yes, it's a vintage Vitro Bull's Eye.

Those are Akro Popeye's - I prefer to think of their shear marks as cut-offs.

Good "R"s are hard to find . . .

Cowabunga dude, that's funny cool!

Not a Clown.

The arrow is not part of the marble, if that's what you're asking. The little indented lines are caused by cold glass that doesn't get rolled smooth.

I'm leaning slightly toward Master but it's a tough call, at least for me.

I think the second one is Master - the others are Akro, IMO.

3", Wow. The amount of work in it is very obvious - it's so cool!

I think that's glass. I also think they could use a bubble bath. 🙂

@Alan That is an awesome marble. Is it Besett & Leslie? It's such a cool technique. What size is it?

These are not marbles I am familiar with but they do not look like American marbles to me - maybe Vacor (Mexican), and I now wonder if the glass is intentionally frosted.

A few Mountaineers . . .

I am not sure about the marble - it may be Asian. But the glass looks like it has spent time submerged in an aquarium or something. It looks like "beach glass" but given that you found similar ones together, that seems less likely.

I'd call it a brown earthenware (clay) marble, AKA a "Commie" because they were so common. Clay marbles are cool but the vast majority of them have little if any value to collectors. Many different companies made huge numbers of them and I don't know that anyone has ever figured out how to sort them. Although, I myself have had quite a bit of fun trying. You can also find them dyed a variety of single colors, or even mottled with several colors. A nice collection of them displays well in a wooden bowl or something. I actually like them quite a bit, but then I learned to embrace my weirdness long ago. 🙂

I think that would be a divided core swirl.

As I recall, these 32-sided glass dies were some sort of a "fortune-telling" instrument.

@Alan Can you please check my thinking here . . . What we are talking about are marbles with a divided ribbon core. I have seen such where typical thin ribbons are about equally wide and they come together edge-to-edge in a way that gives the illusion of a solid core (but it's really hollow). I have also seen some where two of the thin opposing ribbons are wide and another set of thin opposing ribbons are narrow, and they come together in a way that gives the illusion of a single wide fat ribbon (which is also hollow). I think the latter is what they are talking about here. Does that sound right to you?

Just a thought . . . if you barely submerge the marble in water and then take a pic you'll be able to see it much better.

The left looks like a Rainbo to me and the right is a Multicolor Rainbo/Swirl - some may consider the multicolor late NLR era or early Rainbo era.

They may be older, but they look like Rainbos to me. Fortunately, there are folks here that would know better than I so let's see what others say. Quite a few years ago, 100s of NOS boxes like shown in the book turned up empty. I have seen them filled with all kinds of different marbles - mostly Peltiers or Ravenswoods. I dare say the vast majority of these boxes out there today are back-filled.

The Cub Scout marble was named because it has the primary colors of the cub scout uniform. And it is possible that you are not the only one to see an arrow in one of the ribbons. It's always fun to find likenesses in marbles. I enjoy it too but it is a very common thing. I have found everything from animals, to landscapes, to symbols, buildings and people, you name it. My avatar is the best likeness of a smiley face I have found. If I ever find better I'll probably update it. If you are interested to see what likenesses others have found, you could always start a topic and see if you get any responses.