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I'd guess foreign, perhaps Vacor - and a wild one at that. It's just got that one big fold. My thinking is it was intended to look more like a "Fiesta-style" marble.

Some nice old transparent WV Swirls - tough to ID with certainty. I'd need to see more views of each before I might venture a guess. 🙂

I can see why one might think about Cosmic Rainbows but this looks like a quirky foreign Cat's Eye to me. The elongated bubbles and overall quality of the glass and colors rules out Vitro for me.

I've always been fond of white slags. Marbles just don't get much simpler than white striping glass in clear transparent . . .

It is Slags and Swirls Saturday . . .

These are a cool type of Vitro . . . All have a white patch and a red ribbon on clear transparent glass. In addition, there is just a touch of green, yellow or blue color up under the white patch on some of them. It really gives the illusion that they have colored transparent base glass. I think these are early ones from the Vienna location - perhaps, early Tri-Lites.

Some nice marbles posted this morning!

They may well be Champion game marbles. It's no surprise that even single color game marbles often exhibit traits associated with the particular company that made them.

@davesnothere Those are nice big ones! I don't think there is any real debate about who made these 1" marbles that Alox packaged. You can find similar 1" marbles in a bag with blue lettering rather than the the black lettering this one has. It's always tough to get a good image of the marbles inside of an old poly bag . . . big ones with good black filaments, like upper left in this bag, are harder to find, for sure.

@William It looks like a Corn Husk to me - pretty distinctive sorta like a "patch".

Nice marbles, Art, is that first one closer to a Melon Ball than a Clearie?

and that ain't nothing . . . I will say that if it was my marble, I'd keep it!

Yes, the term "slag" most often refers to simple marbles made with a transparent clear or colored base glass and white striping glass. Many companies made similar. Some have one or two distinct cut-off marks, or "seams", others like some Peltiers, have unique "feathering" patterns, etc. Some might be wholly hand -gathered and -rounded or transitional types, where they are hand-gatherd and machine-rounded, some old types are even cut from canes like old latticinos, and other hand-made German types.

The left looks like a newer style Vitro All Red but the right one looks to be veneered on transparent, in which case, it would probably be a Type III Tiger Eye. If the right one is opaque, it might be a Type IV.

I think it might be a cool Akro Slag.

It might be one of Jackson's Marbles - I am leaning a little that way over a very nice JABO Classic.

It looks like a Japanese transitional to me too, and I agree it may be Yasuda.

I like this one and wish it was mint . . . The first and last shots are backlit.

At least they're nice ones! 🙂

It has to be Thursday somewhere . . . 🙂 You all know that German handmade marbles aren't really my forte but I don't think I've seen one quite like this before and I have no idea what to call it. It makes me think of like "divided razor core" or something, but I'm pretty sure that's not actually a thing. 😄 I'll appreciate any help I can get! These are underwater photos, just because I found this one too interesting to throw into the landscaping pile years ago.

Old marble, new photos . . .

It's Wednesday! I have had this marble for many years and have had many people try to convince me it was a Christensen, some of those people weren't Ron and Bill - who certainly knew better, they just really wanted this marble. Years later, I dug another at Pennsboro when I was digging there with them - you should have seen their faces and heard them both stammering when I eventually showed it to them - priceless. We jibed one another about it regularly for years - what a hoot! 😄

@William That's a nice 40 ct bag of Five Star Brand Vitro Cat's Eyes there William. One of their earlier ones, I think. Just look at how rich the color in those marbles are compared to the later stuff they produced - they're so nice!

A day late but, seriously, what are you going to do about it? 😁

Crazy cool, it may be tough to get a definitive ID since it's so messy. But usually when I see something this drizzly, I'm thinking WV swirls, maybe Alley. Really nice white on it!