Steph

The lavender strip I'm seeing could indicate the marble was made with Burmese glass cullet from the Fenton company. Jabo used that cullet.

It's called a Clearie. Sometimes with yellows or reds especially, you can see clues under UV light which might give you a guess whether it was made by Master or by one of the companies who made marbles with longer seams. But it's just a guess for fun. Clearies usually get grouped together and put into some jar for aesthetic enjoyment.

It's one I would have thought Alley on except for two reasons: (1) If Ric doesn't recognize it as Alley, then there's probably a reason for that. (2) The new haul of Heatons is coming up with marbles that I would have thought were Alley and this one looks like it could be in the ballpark of some of the Heatons which have surprised me so.

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The last time I looked into the subject, the Champion factory was in the "no activity is reported at the time of this writing" phase. That was probably around 2010. Do we have updated information about them? Are they officially closed? Is there still a building at the site? Are there still marble machines at the site?

Marbleshows.com Great idea. Hope it catches on! Here is Levi Wooten's intro from facebook: Ok Mibsters. I decided my life wasn't busy enough so I started something else. The MID-MO Marble Show was a great success for the 1st year. We had several turn out, some that couldn't due to illnesses and virus restrictions. Thank you everyone for coming who did and those who even commented on the post to keep other informed. I would like to see every show a success so I started a new website called marbleshows.com. This will be a site dedicated to listing shows that are upcoming as soon as they are planned. Feel free to check it out. I also will be adding links to Facebook groups, sellers websites, "TRUSTED" ebay sellers, and marble clubs. I hope it will be a good use of time and at least help people out with getting info on upcoming shows and possibly assist them in finding some new marbles.

2nd opinion on the middle? I was with Ric in thinking foreign.

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Hiya. At first glance I was thinking glass which had been reworked over a torch. But maybe that was the "abalone" catching my eye. A lot of nice natural looking views on that. I'll guess Alley.

Sure has been awhile. I wondered if your young sportscaster had moved onto other projects. Production has gotten really slick. Nice job. As a collector, it was fun for me to see some older marbles qualified for the tourney. The very vintage Earth 2.0 will be a sentimental favorite for me but I was pleased to see who actually came out first.

Vacors have developed a strong following in the collector community. Not everyone's cup of tea but still many admirers.

I see the pix now!

Oh yeah! Springtime bumblebees!

I think Vacor Wavebreaker here. I just learned the dates on that one yesterday. 1996 to 2010 DETAILED INFORMATION (billes-en-tete.com)

me too

Feels like vitro except for that amber base. But that amber base could just mean extra interesting vitro.

One marble per thread is probably best. For the sake of clear communication. If you take pictures of three or four marbles at a time, where we can easily identify them by saying something like "top" or "left" or "top left", that can work. But one thread per marble is fine! You might get more marbles ID-ed that way.

I don't know any of your marbles! My top two thoughts on this one are Marble King again or Akro.

If vintage then "West Virginia Swirl". But could be a modern marble such as Jabo. ("West Virginia Swirl" is a catch-all ID. There were many companies in West Virginia making swirls in the 30's through 50's and a couple still making swirls after that. Alley and Heaton that I mentioned above were two of the West Virginia companies. Another one was Champion. This has some Champion aspects to it. But it can be really hard to sort the marbles by company and that's why we sometimes just say "WV swirl.")

Another "maybe Vitro or maybe Marble King". This one doesn't have red, so if it turns out to be Vitro it would perhaps be a Tiger Eye rather than an All Red.

You have some odd ones. At first look it could be Master, but having a pair of similar looking ribbons is more like Peltier. And then the glass has a bit of a foreign look to it. I'm leaning non-American right now.

Another "maybe Vitro All Red but seeing Marble King possibilities" marble

I would have made an automatic Alley Agate ID on this one until recently. Now I think I've seen some similar ones ID-ed as Heaton. But I'd still roll it in with my Alleys for now.

This has close to the pattern of a Vitro All Red. However it could be a Marble King. That's assuming it's vintage. Probably put it with your Vitro All Reds for the time being. I think most people would do it that way.