Ric

It might be an early Alley.

It looks like you have a few different makers in this bunch, Joe. Probably some Masters but then perhaps some Akros, Imperials and maybe even a Vitro or two. It's kind of hard to tell from these pics.

I agree, nice bunch of Ravenswoods in there.

These types are nearly impossible to sort. Lots of different companies made really similar ones. Having said that, and from what I can see, the two middle ones look a little Champion-ish to me.

Does it react to UV?

Base looks a little unusual to me.

Yes

IMO, it looks like it's in the family - some sort of a hybrid, I think.

Perhaps some type of iron ore.

I just finished fixing photos, updating links and editing text in all of my old posts in this topic. But since this is "Mostly Pix" I'll add a few more of some favorite Champion types. 🙂

X2, Akro Royal patch.

It says, "This marble would grade (polished)" in the description, so I'll bet it's polished. 😁

I call them "touch marks" because they were made when the marbles fell into a bucket at the end of the rollers and touched one another - they're basically tiny hit marks.

At player size, I don't think it's a JABO and I have seen that sort of mottling on a variety of Alleys, although I'm not confident that this marble is one. The white specks on JABO Classics are most noticeable on the larger marbles. They are basically as made "touch marks" so they are on the surface of the marble and can be clearly seen with magnification. The specks on this one look like they are some sort of impurity or imperfection in the glass as opposed to on the surface of the glass.

A wild Pelt for this week's "Sunday Best" . . .

I think they are both Akro (Royals) too. I just found one with a transparent red patch that has a fair bit of AV in it - no kidding. It has a barely noticeable thin streak of green deep in the transparent red patch, which appears to be the source of the AV.

Nice TriLite, the good black makes it HTF and a keeper, IMO - nice marble. Bullseyes are like a Conqueror with two same-color ribbons surrounding the differently-colored polar patch.

Yup, nice TriLite.

Key requirements for the Buttermilks, along with the "butter", are the red stripes on opposite sides of the marble and the blue stripe on one side, as you can clearly see in Chuck B's photo. Of course, there is some variation in the tone and brightness of those colors but the colors are a requirement. The OP marble is a close relative but is a very poor example of a Buttermilk, if you even want to stretch as far as to call it one. And FWIW, I wouldn't.

I last spoke to Ron about the Paul Bunyans marbles at the Decatur show in April, just a few days before he passed away. We had been discussing these marbles over many years and had gone back and forth between Master, Akro and Ravenswood - even though they they don't look like any other known Ravenswood production. At one point, probably about 15 years ago or so, Ron had interviewed a woman whose father worked for Ravenswood and she said that she remembered her father making them. She showed Ron several examples and said that her father would occasionally bring those marbles home when they were still warm. She claimed that he made them on weekends over a relatively short period of time at the Trenle Blake pottery factory that was just a stone's throw away from the Ravenswood site. Trenle Blake is well known for producing the very popular heavy white with green stripes dinner ware that was common in diners and restaurants back in the day. And over the past few years Ron had become convinced that her account was most likely true and that the marbles were actually made, packaged and sold by Ravenswood, just as she described, primarily to supply marbles for the wooden Paul Bunyan/Babe the Blue Ox "Perpetual Motion" Toy. Ron certainly had other reasons for ultimately coming to believe that this was the history of these marbles but this is the gist of it.

Hmmmm, not an American marble I'm familiar with. Really nice though - any Cat's Eye in nice colored glass is great!

Looks like a nice Akro patch to me, Joe - cool eye lashes too.

Do you have a subscription or something? 😉 I especially like that second one - do you know what it's called?