I'llhavethat1

Did CAC make oxblood marbles?

Simple colors can be good too.

😳🤩 nice bright colors on that one Chad. Condition looks top notch as well.

Pelt was the first thing to cross my mind, but some other angles might help

Agreed

I just unpacked these a couple weeks ago after moving storage, good timing. You guys have some impressive bottles.

Last one looks like a Vitro helmet, and I'm trying to think if I've ever seen one with that color combo before...

2nd is a killer Pelt, last one looks foreign (to me).

Here's an old pic of some old Germans that Leroy "mended", I know some people frown upon polishing but he did a good job saving this group

I agree the middle one looks Pelt.... but a little off....polished maybe?

I'm with CAC on the first, seems like one missing view would bring it all together. Second l'd lean Akro based on probability (shear numbers produced) but it could be something else.

You mean back in the day = when they were originally retailed? I wasn't around then, but I suspect most of the nicer one's ended up as matched sets in early catalog gift boxes, at a premium. At the time, a random bulk lot to be delivered to the corner store up the street, makes more sense than the other side of the country.

Looks kind of like a paneled onionskin to me. The surface condition could have been from aquarium, river, sea, lots of play time, etc. I like the symmetry

If it's glass, the "sulfide" detail would seem absurdly large (close to the edge) to insert into that size sphere. My guess is it would have been ground down, as I suspect the paperweight would also have required. Take it with a grain of salt, never made one myself.

Cool about your Grandpa. With regards to the marbles, I've seen pictures before but never had one/held one personally. I recall somebody posted one a while back and trying to recall if he said it was polymer (rather than glass) or if he used a polymer on the surface to freshen things up.

Very interesting. I didn't recall seeing a blue one like that before, lots of purples and greens. But I do have a bigger slag with pontil and reverse "9" so maybe that's where it came from?

wowzers. Nice marbles

Still looks weird to me. I like it.

doesn't look Pelt to my eyes

cool, I believe there is an older Superman one with similar motif

crossing my fingers, post a pic when you can

I should be able to dig out a couple oddballs soon, working on unpacking other stuff today (it's a long process).

Oooo, I'd have to waffle on the fence on some of them being non-US, but some nice lookers there.

Nice effect. Lighter blue one closest to the lens might be worth a couple more angles

I agree it appears to have some age to it. but there weren't too many people making Latts between ~1920 (German) and ~1980 (Contemporary). I heard (take it with a grain of salt) there were some handmades, made in South America, after WW1 . Doesn't look Boro to me and it would be surprising if a modern maker would have spent the time to initial this example vs. scrap it. Questions in my mind: has the auction ended yet? What do the other marbles look like? Where is the seller located?