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I've seen a couple like that but they are more half and half construction of the green/red (less white). Nice clarity to those pics

A lot of dinky toys got initialed with nail polish or model paint. Somebody must have liked that marble to initial it, although it could be a contemporary artist doing the right thing and signing their work?

I'd heard about some brass ones, which makes sense if you look at Christmas-type jingle bells, formed similarly and more malleable than steel. Nowadays they make ball bearings in ceramic which look pretty much just like glass marbles - (although obviously a lot less out of round)

Lol, interesting stats and Sami makes a good point - objective vs. subjective. I didn't see a category for 3 seams but expect it's a possibility if the glass folds back on itself.

Could be, are there only 9 holes on that game board? If from a game itwould make sense if the game board had more holes (same with your pic),but thanks for posting that ziggy.

Interesting marbles, glad I found this thread. Posted these earlier and they're similar to some of the other blue and white marbles shown later in this post. Haven't heard of a blue panther but would think that name is better suited for the blue/black types pictured earlier in the post.

First pic where the left light reflection is, what's going on there?

Domino's and chess pieces were made out of ivory or bone. Dice too. Could be game marbles. No evidence of hand-ground-facets on these lol.

Looks like a 7 to me, figured they could be ballot box marbles or something? Game marbles maybe?

So, I'm curious is the gutta perchs were originally intended to be more "rubbery" like a bouncing ball, or a marble? Were they game marbles like carpet bowls ?

Wow! thanks for that pic! I was hoping to see more detail from the first one, especially the one with the figures. Amazing. Good luck with the auction duffy , even if it is a superball post pics. lol

The "agate cutter" pics are hilarious. Can you imagine laying down on the job all day (literally). A pic of some more non-glass marbles, I think a couple are actually ground stone rather than clay/ceramic, maybe a couple ivory or bone too. Plus a neat note that came with some agates as I got them. (7th grade in 1927 wasn't me) I never paid much attention to the non-glass marbles and didn't think I had so many until I started rooting around

I'll throw this out there and I hope i don't offend anyone, but when it comes to trying to identify types of swirls that look like these I group them by similarity in colors only, (in the same basic way that I'd sort cat eyes by color). Anyone that can narrow down a specific manufacturer would have more experience/knowledge and I respect that. Big groups of similar marbles would help with the ID vs trying to ID each one on their own.

Colorful marbles bring these to mind, I hope it's OK if handmades can play too.

Nice marble, I think there's some mica visible in pic 5. Condition wise doesn't look too bad although you'd likely lose any pontil detail depending on how polished.

Interesting size and construction on the ~7/8ths one, I dug this picture up looking for a blue, white , and what appears to be oxblood based on your first examples which I'd think are pretty unique for Alley's. Not saying mine are Alley's or even oxblood for that matter, but may be close? Or maybe way out there, (I won't be offended if these aren't what you meant) lol

Nice script. straight as a crow flies ?

I mean, if it's got vanes there's a (extremely) good chance it's a cats eye, pontils would indicate handmade. If it's got more than one ribbon, or a secondary "layer" like caging = most likely not a cats eye. Here's a couple that aren't cats eyes

You must be talking about a 3 color naked single ribbon core if it's getting confused with a cats eye. A handmade marble is usually pretty easy to distinguish from a machine made marble ?

...And a couple handmades, the lobed core might be a "doppelganger" to post #7?

You see that blue/red/brownish/black on some Pelts. REgardless of manufacturer, it looks pretty cool. Not to mention names, but I thought blue + red = spiderman?

Some more festive colors, I think the first is a Euro sparkler and the second might be some sort of double ingot and/or dug Akro

Good point, this is sometimes seen also with "low light" or "night time" settings on camera's where you get all these weird tracers. Nice purple Mica there by the looks of things.

Just joking, always wondered why so many marbles ended up in privy's. There are some nice lined china's you show, as mentioned.

What most people don't realize is that times were tough back then and food was hard to come by. Marbles on the other hand, were plentiful to eat but didn't digest as well.