Steph

A sobering remembrance.

Our friend left this morning. It was actually pretty cool. He makes his cats step outside their comfort zone in a way I wouldn't do to my cats but all of our cats benefited from it. Within two days his two and our two new ones were spending a lot of time in the same areas. Not exactly friends but good socialization. Our touchy basement cat even got some interaction. The kittens explored the basement more. Back when Bear was in a tent to keep her separate because she was taking a long time to recover from being spayed (did I mention that?), the big cat Bibi got aggressive through her threw the mesh tent walls and their was a pooping accident because Bear was so scared and couldn't escape. But now that Bear is out of the tent, she's able to run away, and so though there is still some aggression it doesn't bother me. It's good exercise for Bibi. Bibi needs the exercise. She gained six pounds last year though she hardly eats anything. Bear and Punkin get along okay. She batted him once or twice early on. And he's still very tiny. He's even lost a couple of ounces from his max, which I'm paying close attention to. He's 2 lb 9 oz, down from 2 lb 11 oz. But the vet office said it might just be from how incredibly active he is. He runs everywhere on his mighty hind legs and his floppy little front legs. "" The kittens are almost 5 months and Bear weighs 5 pounds. Uhhhh ... I'm rambling. I should edit. But I won't. Sooooo ... basically things are good.

I'll give a very rough guess of 1950.

The white in the first view has a look that could be older, but all together I'm leaning Jabo.

I could go Alley on all.

Even though the big guys have already weighed in, I'll go ahead and say that looks Pelt to me. ..

Jabo is a good guess for that.

Rainbo

I'm pretty sure not a double ingot. Are you thinking a brown marble fused to a red marble? Double ingots would have two of the same type of marble fused together. Two molten marbles plop onto the rollers one after the other and get stuck together going down the rollers.

Love the bottles. The urine bottle is hilarious but very cool. My Codd bottle is modern. I got it for a small price just to have one, then did some research and learned it's not vintage but that's okay. I can't remember if it's modern because it's from another country that continued the Codd bottle tradition longer than most. Or if it was made more as a curiosity. I just wanted one and now I have it.

Leaning toward foreign

Japanese Pincher Game marble.

I would have been leaning toward MFC because of the size. I know Akro did make some marbles over an inch. But did they do slags that large? This will be new information for me.

It really is a pretty item. Too bad the seller was such a jerk.

Even though it has more colors than needed to get into the box, I think Akro would have sold it under the name Tri-Color Agate.

I hesitated over #1 and 2 because of the base Then because of the seams I went ahead and said Vitro. But I don't feel strongly enough about it to dig in.

#7 could be "rare". Eagerly awaiting other opinions.

# 8 is Japanese. I'm not sure about #7. It's very interesting. The ribbons do look Vitro but I'm unfamiliar with that color base with cat's eye vanes. The rest look Vitro to me.

Alleys and Jabos .... hmmmm ... no help there! That can do it.

(what other marbles did it come with?)

Also consider Vacor Sunset.

Lovely. They look like the Vacor Rustic. So I won't quickly jump to assuming such marbles are Swedish when I see them in ordinary people's collections. I'm just happy knowing more about them. With the ingredients you described above, it sounds like they would be heavy marbles like the Rustics are. Maybe Vacor learned the chocolate method somehow ... or maybe the Rustic marbles were imported by Vacor.

In general we have no issues with posting to other websites. Go for it. Benningtons were made in the 1800's and into the early 1900s. Imported to the U.S. from Germany.

If the clear is glass, then it appears to be a fried marble. Glass cracked by extreme cold and heat applied alternately. But that's very large for the typical fried marble. That's why I'm wondering if might actually be plastic, not glass at all. The blue marble is two inches??!! It could be a slag or transitional. At that size, I'm thinking of only two choice. MFC made large slags, but I don't know of they made one in that light of a shade of blue, and I don't know if they ever would have had a pontil like that. So I am not leaning toward MFC. I'm actually leaning toward contemporary because I just don't recognize such a large handgathered marble as being vintage if it doesn't fall into the MFC zone.

Does anyone know what they are? I remember seeing the name on some Vitro item from the 1930's. Maybe it was an ad. Maybe it was a sample box. But I don't remember seeing accompanying marbles. Pretty sure the Du-Lites were mentioned alongside Tri-Lites. Possibly the item was photographed in the Vitro book. But my guest is using my office and I wasn't able to lay my hands on the book quickly when he nicely stepped out for me to have a look around. So I'll have to do a deeper search later. Does anyone here have their book handy? About 15 years ago Tri-LIte wasn't a name in common usage. Now "everybody knows" what they are. Du-Lite remains a secret from me.