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Nice coverage on that one.

I see Master too.

I'm thinking Sistersville Alley - pretty sure I've seen similar.

It looks a bit more Master than Akro to me, but both companies made brushed patches and they can be very similar.

It looks like most, if not all, are Master Made or Akro Agate - nice score!

There are quite a few good examples of Master lashes in this thread:

JABO Classic, IMO.

@DHUNNIE 27 The "Ade base" that you will find in Lemonades, Limeades, Cherryades, Blueberryades, and other Akros will usually produce a very strong green/yellow response under UV. It'll be obvious once you get your hands on a few. (Not my pic, Chad posted it a while back - not his pic either.)

I do think the first is a Vacor Sunset and that the others are not American made either - they may be Vacors or Asian (Imperial?) types.

I think Alley is a real possibility.

Neat bit of beach glass but there isn't really enough detail for an attempt at identification.

The first looks like it might be a hand-made of some sort - the pictures are a bit out of focus so it's hard to tell. The others look like JABOs to me.

That's a beauty - really nice colors and symmetry!

It's a swirl of some sort. Correct color is going to be important for this ID since Alley and JABO both made similar. From these views, I am leaning JABO.

Sure look like Rainbos to me - good ID!

Another recent 11/16" acquisition . . . Tricolor Latticino Core Swirl

That's a Marble King Patch & Ribbon.

I think this is a JABO contract marble - not sure which run.

It looks like a JABO Classic to me.

I'm thinking JABO.

It's one or the other, but I am leaning pretty hard Master too.

Marbles were not made with precision, as Alan said, but they were made for a purpose - to play marbles, which means that being round and rolling smoothly was a key to success. Just think of Akro's quip "Shoot as straight as a crow flies" - it was important for marketing purposes. For the kids who bought them, out-of-rounds, cold-rolls, etc. would be deal breakers. If they consistently found "bad marbles" in one company's offerings they would surely look elsewhere. Of course, some of these less than stellar shooting marbles did make it through quality control and into the hands of players, who probably used them for sling shot ammo or some other purpose, there were certainly marble games that didn't require "good shooting marbles". If you have wound up with a big lot of marbles that all have issues in this regard, I would think you got into a bunch of seconds, or rejects, perhaps even dug marbles. While there were plenty of perfectly good playing marbles discarded by companies for various reasons, any marbles that wouldn't pass the basic requirement of round and smooth were surely discarded. Of course, the other possibility is that some of what you are feeling is just damage caused long after the marbles sold.

Interestingly, certain of those fantasy bags may be collectible in their own right - some of them were filled decades ago! @Al Oregon probably knows more about them than anyone else I know. Maybe he'll chime in with some thoughts.

That last group of marbles you show look like they may have come out of a Champion Bicentennial bag. They put marbles from nearly every WV company in those. And those patches were not made by Champion, AFAIK. Ain't marbles fun!?

It's a simple 7/8" as hand-mades go, but the colors, the transparent ribbons and the condition caught my eye - I just couldn't leave it behind. I never thought it would happen, but I have fallen pretty hard for the old Germans . . .