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Agreed. The symmetry and spacing of the visible outer bands is a bit better than average as well. If the other side and pontils look good, would be a nice addition.

Any Aventurine (sparkles) in the big Pelt?

Skilled/manual trades are in demand so that's a good thing. Sometimes much better than sitting in an office. Yeah I'm pretty disappointed with the photobucket thing too. Was trying to get an old pic from my album and really froze things up, continuously.

I don't often get to this section of the board, but good for you! personal accomplishments are always motivating.

They all look like Vacor/Mega marbles

Most likely a mix of Vitro and Marble King from what I can tell?

Worth mentioning that what sometimes appear to be "seams" can actually be "folds" in the pattern.

At least a couple of those look handgathered. A couple maybe not so much but hard to tell from the pics.

Amber slag near the middle of first pic looks neat. Nice haul

Not seeing MFC here, could be Alley based on size/colors/pattern. MFC typically have a very distinct 9 pattern from hand gathering. I see what you were thinking but it's more likely a result of a fluke (some machine made marbles end up with an unintentional 9).

Looks like a fun drawer to sort marbles into, is it one of those printing die drawers? Last pic, group of three marbles near the bottom?

These mostly look like Imperials, considered foreign (ie; Asia or Mexico) and newer in the realm of marble collecting (ie: within last 60 years)

Robwell, most of your marbles appear to have been in a fire (?) Sometimes surface irregularities can be mistook for pontils. You may have a German handmade in your group pic, but the pontils might not be apparent due to damage.

I'm not recognizing it, looks handmade but if you found some initials on there that's surprising but may be helpful for your search.

1-red handmade German slag with "chevron" pattern 2-blue handmade German slag with "chevron" pattern 3-mint green and jet black flame (similar to Alley pistachio, but more of a CAC pattern/glass quality) 4-a Mica marble with black core and blizzard of mica surrounding it (hey, you asked, lol) 5-Navarre with 9 and tail, tight twists Good question, got my gears turning

Cool. that would make the Sulphide pretty small then...

Nice group, the divided core is a 3-layer (3-stages) and looks pretty neat. Worth noting a 'standard' marble size is approx 5/8" and they don't get much smaller than 1/2". Largest usually tops out around 2" but there are some vintage handmades that were 2.5"+ and also some modern contemporaries that are much larger

Jten, that's gotta be a two-hander. Nice display

Now, that's what I'm talking about "Seems like all the kids today are collecting these new-fangled machine made marbles" lol

Yeah, that'll keep you sorting for a while. Looks like a good variety so you should be able to learn as you go. I didn't see the steelie with cross pictured but some of them were actually stamped (hollow) and ended up with a cross fold on top where the four points (for lack of better description) come together. Looked like some old German handmades in the mix as well, so hurray for that

Might have been a plan that didn't pan out? Interesting article nonetheless.

I'd go with Peltier, CAC, Peltier in that order. Nice pics and marbles. Slight chance of Alley on the second one.

Yeah, hard to tell from the pics. Don't recall seeing that many ribbons on a Popeye, looks more like a pelt from the first pic. Seeing in hand or other pics/angles would certainly help.

Ugh. Weird looking one for sure. I could see it as corkscrew colors, with a very messed up pattern but I believe this color combo (good ol' red& white) and hints from the pattern would lean more towards some type of older marble. Probably decades older than what you'd see from Vitro. What's the size? Are there any translucent parts or is it fully opaque? Goes without saying the huge chip detracts from the value (would be worthless to some people), but way I see it, there is always value in discussion.

Is $760 a "repurposed" value (ie: for marbles) or are there spool collectors out there that pay this much? Seems a bit on the high side to me but it would be interesting to have