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All nice finds, Fire. If the Vitros are veneered I would say Conqueror variants. If not, just patches, I guess. I don't know of any particular name for them.

They're good marbles - a couple of Indians and a Gooseberry, I think. What do the Indians look like back-lit?

Just FYI, Akro may have used the term "onyx" to describe a few different marbles but most collectors use Onyx to refer to marbles that have a white spiral in colored base glass, since that is what Akro called them in their Salesman cases and literature.

The orange one looks like a Champ but I'd like to see a couple of more views of the red one. It's a nice looking marble - sorta slaggy, doesn't really give me a Champion vibe.

It looks like an Egg Yolk Oxblood to me.

@I'llhavethat1 Thanks, even better, that pink one is really pretty.

I agree they look vintage. The red one you singled out is interesting. I think some people would call it a cased clambroth, but I don't think that is a technically correct. As for "end-of-day", I find the term mostly confounding and not very useful since it is poorly defined, as far as I can tell. As mentioned above, I think most people define end-of-day Onion Skins are those with splotchy colors that do not form pole-to-pole filaments. I think the general idea is that, at the end of the day, workers would roll up stray bits of frit from their work area onto a remaining cane and make a marble out of it. In its original iteration, I think it was used only to describe single pontil marbles but then those may have became "end-of-canes". This occurred at about the same time that my head exploded.

I think you thought right - nice marbles! What size are they? I didn't think Mists had such structured ribbons. It's a really cool marble, regardless of what you call it, and it's far from common, IMO.

It's kind of a crazy to find such a large horde of unpackaged foreign marbles - thanks for showing them!

I'd say the 1st is Alley and 3rd-4th are Ravenswood. The 2nd may be Alley too. This is assuming they are all around 5/8".

it's not a Peltier BM, IMO, and if there is a Marble King called a Bloody Mary, I am not familiar with it, so I can't help with that.

It looks like deep transparent purple on my monitor.

The "New marbles" in your topic made me laugh, you sound like some of the German hand-made collector's I know. To them, anything machine-made is a "new marble". 😄

When you're taking pics, the simplest way to check your result is to look at the marble on your monitor and compare it to the marble in-hand. If they are different, take another picture. For a proper ID, it's often important that details of the pattern are clear and the colors are correct. Knowing the size can be helpful too.

Nice size! Olive green is closer to what I would expect but still a little unusual, I think.

Me too.

Sorry about the stitches - bummer. The left cork in the last pics is pretty cool - it's got a corked loop/split ribbon sorta thing going on. 🙂

Nice example - I like it! It's really busy, and the color looks unusual, at least on my monitor. Are the lines sort of bronze colored? What size is it?

If the marble on the right fluoresces it is a weak lemonade variant. As Alan said, there is lots of variation in machine made marble production - that is the rule, not an exception. In other words, there are good examples and bad examples of any particular marble type. And the right marble is definitely not a blueberryade or any type of "ade" other than a Lemonade, if you even want to call it that. These are collector's names and some marbles fit the ideal better than others.

In your photo (below) the marble on the left is an Akro Superman (like the four that Chad showed, above) and the one on the right is a Peltier Cubscout. Saying your marble is "bigger than a superma(n)" is not helpful, since Supeman marbles come in a variety of sizes, as Chad mentioned. And while the yellow on your Peltier Cubscout may have a hint of orange it is still yellow in my book.

I agree this one looks like a Silver Oxblood. Similar marbles with an opaque white base are called Milky Oxbloods. Any sort of an Akro "Ade" will glow under UV, Lemonade, Limeade, Blueberryade, Orangeade, etc. If it doesn't glow, it's not an an "ade". And the Ade base can vary a bit too.

Welcome to the Marble Connection - looking forward to seeing some of your collection!

@Joe2 Pretty cool hybrid Tiger Eyes there, Joe.

It looks a lot like a Tootsie Roll. Let's see what others say.

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