Steph

Alley stopped making marbles in the 1940's. Champion kept making marbles into the modern era. My belief is that it was easier for errors to get past quality control in the modern era. Fewer kids playing marbles. Less important to get them all round.

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I am not seeing Peltier. The colors aren't looking right for Pelt to me. And the texture of the white doesn't look right for Pelt either.

Swirls aren't generally thought of as having seams. All swirls technically have two cutlines, but often the cutlines are hidden inside the swirl, so it's not a thing that's considered often for that type of marble. I'd say good chance Alley. Also, what does it look like backlit?

Cool. That black and white one is pretty sweet too.

A. I would have been torn between Champion and Alley. B. Good question! Would quality control have let that through? I don't know the answer. But quality control was pretty good back then. I know it's just a toy, but it's a toy that the kids needed to think was good for their marble games. So hmmm?

Happy birthday, you firecracker.

Resolved? How so? That is the original marble in this thread. The question is whether the auction title is correct.

Mostly pattern, and the balance between the colors. In an older swirl, there's usually a clear argument for which color is the base glass and which is the ribbon. That distinction frequently gets lost in Jabos. Another thing is how many colors you're picking up in your photos. The more shades, the more likely you're looking at a Jabo. This one for instance. It actually has a relatively distinct white "ribbon" in the left view, but look at all those shades in the right view.

Welcome. I agree with Jabo.

That's looking like a swirl. I wouldn't call that Akro or Master. Sometimes you just can't tell with these essentially solid-colored marbles.

I am leaning modern and Jabo.

Hard to tell in a photo, but that lower left plum-colored one might turn out to be a Master Cloudy. Cloudys are harder to find and identify than Akros. Which marble did you backlight first? with the bubbles ...

Dayang!! I got a super late start on veggies this year. No explosions. But I finally got some veggie plants in the ground. AND ... I have flowers!!! So very new to me. Pretty simple for now. But foxgloves and lupines and bellflowers and milkweed and and and ....

I am not aware of marble manufactures making paperweights. I suppose Peltier could have. They made a whole lot of things. And there might have been Italian or German manufactures who did both but I wouldn't know any names. I visited a paperweight forum once, doing research on how what we call sulphides got that name. It had finally occurred to me that whatever was happening in marbles had generally been happening in a bigger way with paperweights. It was a positive experience. So that would be my best advice. I don't remember the name of the forum I visited all those years ago, but surely you could find a good one with an internet search.

Pelt for sure. I don't know about cuts, but the colors are classic. Another clue is the flip-flop color distribution. Yellow on top on the left, white on top on the right.

The hunt continues.

The glass is looking modern to me. But maybe I just have modern on the brain -- it seems to be my answer on everything today.

It's different from my Vacor Sunsets, but I suspect it would fit in this Sunset bag from the Billes-in-tete site:

I am seeing Vacor.

Pelt Rainbo on the green. Possibly pre-cat's eye but could overlap. Not sure about the yellow. I'm thinking either interesting Pelt ... or interesting Marble King. If Marble King, then I'm thinking modern. Some of those modern MK cats got pretty shredded. I'll bump the thread and root for Pelt for you.

This could be a question of who currently polishes marbles with machines. Or it could be a question of how to do light touch-ups at home. I remember hearing of people polishing by hand. But I don't know the details. And I know of someone who has used water-soluble polymer to make the surface quite presentable. And @Kimbernugs has been working with resin: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/35002-resin-coating-project

The Peltier is a Multicolor Rainbo, from the National Line Rainbo era, early 1930's.

I am leaning Vitro on the first one. I see Akro possibilities, but leaning Vitro.