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Still proud of this shot I took of this 11/16" beauty, shot by hand with a 15-yo small point and shoot.

Wow you've got candy canes, wreathes, Christmas ornaments and even strawberry Pop Tarts in those! Here's the only Christmas Tree in my collection, found last year.

I'm not sure how I feel about polished marbles.

Thankfully it wasn't me, and thankfully the guy was so mad he decided to sell his 50lbs of marbles (which he put in a plastic bucket) to me. 90% were pretty beat up but there was a Peltier "chocolate hermaphrodite" in there which I've since traded.

Here! There, and elsewhere!

Thanks for all your efforts over the years, Lou. It is a privilege to keep this community and its trove of marble collecting knowledge going.

Thank you, Steph! We are thankful for your gentle and informed contributions to this great hobby. Happy Thanksgiving!

I see it and I believe it!

Neat! I wonder whether those first quality cornelians were the banded kind, with the lesser ones being the more reddish with less definition? Also machine ground by then?

I've been told these early run Vacor Twisters could be mistaken for the CAC swirl of this color combo. These earlier ones seem to have richer colors with less bleeding.

Found one on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/JABO-TRIBUTE-MARBLE-BLACK-YELLOW-Super-Cool-Pattern-Colors-Old-Marbles-Item-67/142963640917?hash=item21494c0a55:g:U84AAOSwKfFbmBnu

Here are some of my better Rainbos. Peltier was gracious to the poor collectors among us (me).

Thanks, that confirms it for me. It's a neat marble with nice colors! Steph + Ron = Certified ID.

Thanks, all. I wouldn't describe the black swirled one as having an orange peel texture because you cannot see it with the naked eye like you can on the Euro sparklers, for example, but under a loupe it has a lot of dimples compared to any other known CAC in my collection. Sounds like it could be a JABO because of so much variety in those runs. Also is 21/32" common for CAC anyway?

They're 21/32". The black striped one I got at a show recently. The seller said it was Jabo. It feels a little CACish to me but not as sharp colors as I'm used to. Under a loupe it has a lot of small dimples.

Thanks, everyone. I'm keeping these in my "???" box and bringing them to the next show I attend. It's tough not being able to photograph them well enough to paint a clearer picture.

The white in the glass is not like most Vitro but it does have a more chalky quality that some of my Type 2 Tiger Eyes and Easter Eggs have. The collector I got them from had them in his Vitros and I thought his guess was as good as mine. Same source also had this one which is the same size and has the same milky/chalky glass quality.

Yeah I'd say they're definitely related. I think I see two seams but they're fairly close together with all that swirlin'.

I think these are Vitro but they are definitely not like my other Vitros. Thoughts?

Funny, I tried photographing my twin of this last night. Tough to capture that light pink. This is truly a neat Rainbo in hand.

Here's a recent auction that sold a couple of these in a Vacor group. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Marbles-Vacor-Michelangelo-Swirls-Lot-W-/192621542984?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137

Thanks! I've seen a few thin purples on my Vitro but never this much. Purple Haze!

Found this deep purple today among a lot of 1960s marbles. Is it MK? Almost looked like a Vitro helmet but I rarely find MK so?

If you are familiar with those 9/16" vivid Vacor Dragon-like marbles that seem to show up wet mint among other Vacors but are considred by many to be torch made, then you will find this listing of a 10/16" Leighton to be uncannily similar in color: https://www.ebay.com/itm/10-16-OUTSTANDING-AQUA-BASE-LOOP-LEIGHTON-EY-OXBLOOD-PONTIL-MARBLES-GP-MINT/223112216398 I've attached images of the mystery 9/16" mib below. What a fun hobby this can be! (For future proofing, here's a partial archive link to the eBay listing since eBay now seems to remove many of its completed listings: http://archive.is/yKI2t )