Ric

For some reason your camera often seems to be focusing on the background (wood grain) and not the marble - you may want to back off a little bit. I have seen people take excellent photos by resting their phone on top of a glass and putting the marble right under the lens. Distance from the lens to the marble, steadiness and lighting are key. Your set-up doesn't need to be fancy or anything, just consistent. Once you find what works best you can just stick with it. 🙂

The first is a West Virginia Swirl (WVS), probably Alley, and the second is a Peltier Rainbo. Not sure about the purple on white WVS you posted just above these. Both nice Vitros, IMO. The two on the right in the 1st pic and the lower one in the 2nd pic are Peltier Rainbos. To me, the left one in the first pic looks mostly Akro from this single view. The top marbles in the 2nd photo is another WVS. It looks mostly Alley to me but it might be another company. It's hard to ID many WVS with only a single view. I think it might be easiest for everyone if you start a new topic for each marble you want to identify. You could number them to make keeping track easier, like "Cato ID Request #1", for instance. Using a consistent format will make them easier to search for too. Ten years from now you will be able to search "Cato ID Request", maybe limit the search to "Topic Titles Only", and every one off the posts should pop right up.

It's a very large Vacor - watch your toes!

Yup, I see Vacor too.

I agree with Vacor for both.

Looks mostly JABO to me - maybe one of the contract runs, but it might be a SMM or DAS too. It's not striking me as vintage.

Vacor to me too.

I agree with Art, the finish says it all - Vacor.

I'm not exactly sure what it is but your photos look off to me - sorta dark and fuzzy. Champion, Ravenswood and others made marbles similar to this and I would need clearer images to make a better ID, but at the moment I would lean Ravenswood.

It's hard for me to tell from the single view here, a few look more Heaton than others but there are similar Champions too.

The photos and colors look a little off to me. Nonetheless, I'll go with Champion for this marble, 1980s NOF, I think.

I'm with Art and Marble King - the orange color is great!

A group of vintage marbles but nothing stands out as particularly valuable. There may be a couple of interesting ones but most are very common types, IMO.

@VaMarbles Great action in a few of those! @disco005 Crazy bright colors! Here's a 3/4" twofer this Slag & Swirl Saturday . . .

@YasudaCollector Congratulations! You have earned an elite membership in The Society of Clay Marble Sorters! Worldwide membership has now doubled - who knows where we'll go from here! But seriously, clay marbles range from difficult to impossible to sort, let alone attribute to a particular company, although it sure can be fun trying. Over the years I have come across many groups of clay marbles in larger collections, and I always do my best to sort them. In my experience, when you find a larger group of clays in one collection, you can often sort at least some of them, more or less - success seems largely lot-dependent. But if you do this often enough you can assemble some pretty nice groups of clay marbles, some of which may look very similar or not to other groups you've assembled over the years. I know this probably seems odd to many people but I've never met a marble I didn't care to sort - even a commie, it's one of my favorite things to do! It could be fun to post some pictures of common clay marbles. It would be interesting to see the different marbles and groups that people post. I know there are some really nice clay marbles out there. Maybe we'll get to see some of them! And your thread has the perfect title, and a beautiful opening photo of clay marbles too! I'll bet I could match a few of them. 😉

Cool one! Some hyper-bubbly Peltier Rainbos have so much air trapped in them you'd almost think they might float!

The color and pattern looks Ravenswood to me, even though 3/4" would make it a big one and much less common. A 3/4" Alley would be way more common but it's still my second choice.

I think they used limestone marbles in industrial roller mill operations back in the day.

This is a great photo - it's nice glass, just a beaten up old warrior. The dings and debris make it look like an asteroid or something - probably some kids favorite.

Is it possible there is damage obscuring the other pontil, which should be pretty much opposite the one you can see? It sort of looks that way to me.

There are some hand-gathered marbles that only have one pontil - they are fully hand-made, no machine involved. Some people might call the single cut-off on a transitional marble a "pontil" too - I am not usually one of them. 😉

Oh yeah, it's clear from these photos - nice mica. What is this horizontal feature I see in photo #3? I think I see it in photo #1 too. Can you feel it? Is it sort of a groove?

@davesnothere It looks like some of those in the box might qualify as German (or Euro) slags or striped transparents. What do you think?

@davesnothere As for Akro . . . plenty of sparklers were sold outright and most dug ones probably wouldn't pass QC.

@davesnothere I don't really think of the marbles from TGI as thin and dull.