Steph

Feeling a little festive. Post your holiday marbles. I'll start with my freshest marble mail from Dave McCullough.

Modern on the right. For sure. On the left? The structure looks a little vintage but I see why you're unsure. I'm leaning modern myself.

Goodness. The coloring and the ribbon ends look modern to me. Mostly.

I was thinking maybe Akro or Anacortes Vitro on the third. Which could mean anywhere from the 1930's to 1990 on that one! But since the grouping is mostly older, I guess lean away from the Anacortes idea and more to the Akro idea (or what Richard said).

You're right about these being Benningtons. As to how modern marbles get into older collections ... it almost always manages to happen. Someone knows where the marble jar is and slips some newer ones in there. Maybe. And as to how to tell ... oh, that is a long story. Sometimes colors or textures. Often structure. This one doesn't look too very new. Could be from an intermediate period. Vintage is usually considered before 1970. Maybe this is from around then. But the colors and structure look _more_ like a modern Mexican or Asian marble than they do like the closest American marbles they resemble. The way the ribbons join at the short seam in your picture here makes this one look closest to being a Master marble, if it were American. That is a "seam" or a "cutline", by the way, not a pontil in this photo. Pontil would be for a handmade or handgathered marble. This is machinemade.

Hello, Chad. Welcome.

I don't see pictures. P.s. when posting a lot of ID threads, it would be helpful not to name them all the same thing. A title such as "Bennington?" would help a lot.

Many beads were made with the same materials as marbles were made with.

Wow @ your lutzy one. Second one is a German handmade, but I'm not sure of the style name. Third one might be Master.

These would be modern marbles, and foreign. Mexican or Asian.

Possibly Master on the first two.

At close to an inch and swirly, that first one might be Jabo. Or it might be Alley.

Pretty.

I have a special fondness for those.

Ron? @wvrons

That too.

Colors could be dug Akro? But the last time I thought dug Akro on a peachy ribbon, I think the consensus was Vitro, so I'm really just tossing that out there, not voting.

Right and left look modern. Middle could be vintage. Maybe a Master? (It looks Mastery but for some reason I had it in my head that we wouldn't find red in Masters very much, so maybe something else but it still looks vintage.)

With those shreds, I would think Akro ... but I would run it by Dani. @zaboo

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... if your first thought when you first glance at something as amazing as this is to look more closely at the bottom right panel to see if those are marbles .... well, the smaller version which first popped up on facebook looked kinda marbular ...

sharp!

Doh! I really thought I was on the right track on those guys on the left! Oh well. Swirls are my waterloo.