Steph

Problem addressed. Thanks to everyone who kept it civil. Glad I saw the name-calling when I did. If I miss something like that and you don't see where the report button is, please send me a message. (Do you see three dots at the top right corner of posts? Hopefully you can get to the report option there.)

We have a problem. Once you call another member a dick you have crossed a line. I'll be discussing this situation with the site administrator.

The ones you currently have listed as glazed stoneware are relatively new. Made within the last 30 years. Common mistake. Some of them are industrial ball mill balls which have been decorated with magic marker style pen. Others appear to have an enamel finish -- I'm not sure how those are made but I know they only started appearing relatively recently. About ten years ago if I recall correctly.

Without the AV, Pelt wouldn't have crossed my mind. Perhaps because of the pattern, I should still have thought of Pelt, but I've been down that road a few times and no longer get bothered by an MK having a more pelty pattern and less "patch and ribbon". So without the AV, the colors would have said MK to me.

I guess Pelt. My first and second thought were MK. But with the thick aventurine seems probably Pelt.

Yep ... looks like I was wrong again! LOL Not a bumblebee after all. Blue Bees are coveted marbles. Good job.

All are Bumblebees. The top left might be Pelt. Others for sure MK.

You guys are saying what I wanted to say. But I couldn't think if I should say Heaton or Bogard as my second choice, so I just went with MK.

I should know this .... But I just do bumblebees.

Could be at least some parrots in there. The dark lighting does present a bit of a challenge.

I think it's an American-made cat's eye. I think odds would say Marble King.

Hi Ellen. My first thought was that you have Jabos there. And maybe you _do_ have a number of Jabos. Maybe. But I think I might also see at least one Peltier Multicolor. The marble in this view might have Peltier seams to it ....

Marble King St. Marys cat's eye in the middle of the first photo. The green one in the middle of the second photo also looks like a Marble King. Alley on the white and black highlighted in the last photo. I like the red, white and black Akro cork. I think Jabo on the largest marble.

Akro called this two colors.

I have some happy memories of marbles from childhood. That led me to purchase a few marbles on eBay. An antiques seller told me they weren't what people like to collect though. They were Jabo classics which had been deceitfully presented. That spurred me learn about vintage marbles.

They could be Master's version of the banana. The colors are right for Master.

I also think Christensen. I remember seeing such a marble being ID-ed as a blue lace. And I remember there being an argument about that -- a suggestion that the esteemed person who ID-ed it may have labeled it wrong. That maybe the striped transparent version those colors was the only thing which should be called blue lace. But I also would bet that the name has stuck by now and that you can fairly call it a blue lace. .... I am curious to hear what those who are more well-versed in CAC's than I would call it these days ....

nice assortment

Bruce, back around 2008, it was mostly about the color, and it was considered acceptable for them not to glow, and I remember one conversation where Ron said that it was about 50-50 whether they would glow. I don't know what the "rules" were before then ... maybe the 50-50 was a temporary loosening of the rules, or maybe it was a step along the way to the current standard. but as far as I know the current standard is that it needs glow. I don't know if the keepers of the name require that the marble be an Alley. My memory is a little more fuzzy on this aspect, but I seem to recall a time when it was considered possible that a Pistachio could have been made by Ravenswood too. So, yes, there's a difference between "Pistachio" and pistachio-colored glass. Even Alleys get segregated that way. I'd describe the Akros and Pelts as "pistachio-colored glass" even if they did glow. One more note: it's not just the base which needs to be right to earn the name Pistachio from purists. I have some UV-reactive pistachio-colored-glass Alleys with medium-shade brown swirls instead dark brown/black. I call those "nice Alleys" because I think they have to have the dark ribbons to qualify as Pistachios.

Points for trying, chocobogreens! I don't see any Christensens though. The top right might be an Alley Pistachio. I think these days folks are insisting that the base light up under blacklight for it to be a Pistachio ... does yours light up?

Maybe a Master on the last one?

The majority of cat's eyes are cheaply made marbles. A lot of oddities happy. Impurities. Cold rolls. The last marble looks interesting though. More views?

It's a machine made marble, so the marks wouldn't be pontils. (A pontil is where the metal punty was attached in the process of making a handmade or partially handmade marble.) The marks do look like bubbles. I would say yes to WV swirl. Alley is a type of WV swirl ... and it's a good candidate for this marble.

Thanks. Yes, modern Asian for both. It would be fair to call them cat's eyes. I don't usually. I usually just say "modern Asian". But they're pretty similar to Vitro cage style cat's eyes.