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I'm with Art and JABO, for now. If the white fluoresces strongly, I might think differently.

This is a lot to digest in a single post. It appears to me that most are JABO Classics. You'll probably get a better response to your ID request if you start a new post for each group.

I'm thinking the first is modern and foreign - perhaps Vacor. The second looks like a Vitro to me.

@YasudaCollector Thanks for posting this - it is a very interesting topic. I took a liking to the old fire tree sulfide paperweights quite a few years ago. Here are a couple of highly faceted ones I just acquired. I really like the way that light and reflections play on the faceted surfaces. When you walk around and look at them there is a really neat sort of kaleidoscopic effect. 🙂

Nice, Melissa. I just saw a couple of Aguilla bags with Mosaicos. Honestly, I was surprised at the quality of the marbles. Some of them were every bit as nice as Masters, and some even better IMO. I am not mistaken these marbles were made before company moved and evolved into Vacor.

Nice score @VaMarbles but I am not seeing an Alley Carnival or a Ravenswood Green Raven, have I missed them somewhere?

These are going to be tough to definitively ID. Many companies made similar. I'd have to have them in hand to dare a guess, and even then I might not have much confidence who made them. Sorry I can't offer more.

It appears you have a range of ages from the 30s-50s (Vienna and Parkersburg locations), with the Tiger Eyes being the later ones (50s, maybe 60s). And I don't see anything in the group that I don't have examples of - nice marbles but nothing too uncommon, IMO.

A favorite Champion poly bag . . . The reason should be obvious . . . 🙂

A couple of big Vitro Hybrids - 7/8" and 27/32" . . . . . . a little chunk of green AV in the second one.

Yes, it is a WVS. Cairo marbles are not uncommon, although a busy pattern like this one would be less usual.

This is a swirl not a patch. Patches usually have two distinct seams on opposite sides of the marble and the color is found concentrated in one or more "patches" on the surface.

I'm getting a Cairo vibe but I am not certain. Let's see what others say . . .

Thanks for posting that one, Chuck - it confirmed an ID for me. Here's one of my (many) favorite Ravenswoods . . .

Just too be clear, "transitional corkscrews" is just a descriptor - there are no marbles called "transitional corkscrews". 🙂

Horizontal slags are hand-gathered with white spiraling around marble - sorta like transitional corkscrews. There are some really nice ones in this collection:

My favorite Champion . . .

Thanks, Melissa - I hope the same for you!

@Melissa Those are some of the most Vitro-looking Vacors I have seen - really nice marbles, Melissa - thanks for showing them!

@cheese That's a great example, Chuck - gotta keep an eye on those game marbles! 😄

That's a great bag, Art. I'm surprised the color and printing held up as well as it did and I'd be even more surprised to see another like it. Very cool!

One of my best finds from 2024 . . .

A couple of my favorite Sistersville Alleys . . .

Has anyone seen the PB types in Master or Akro packaging, or any paperwork indicating that Akro or Master sold marbles to Ravenswood? FWIW, I am convinced that the only PBs Ravenswood actually packaged were in mesh bags and that mesh bags with the "Akro note" attached and all the poly bags were packaged well after they closed.

The first photo has a few Vitros and a HG slag, as Art said, but it's hard to be sure about many of them from a single view. The second are simply black game marbles - almost every company made them and it's often difficult to tell one from another. They have minimal value to collectors.