Steph

The splotchy ones at top are Vacor Galaxies. The red and yellow ones are Vacor Red Devils. Modern marbles from Mexico. Many of your cat's eyes are Vitro cage style cat's eyes which are relatively popular but also usually considered common. Does the yellow one have 8 vanes? If it has 8 vanes and it's a Vitro, then that is special. However the cutlines on the marble look smallish and U-shaped or V-shaped ... which might mean that we're looking at an Asian marble on that one.

Actually I like that

A quiet Christmas here too which I am used to. I made a couple of phone calls. Got a care package from England ... with treats the family thought I might not have seen here. I wish I had let them know that I was curious to try "spotted dick". They did send me some "mushy peas", which I had earlier expressed curiosity about. (In case you were unaware, there are marbles called spotted dicks ... but it's also an English pudding.) I haven't had tried the mushy peas yet. I had some teas and some jelly babies and other treats. Here are the spotted dicks I got in the heartwarming Advent present which a small army of marble collectors sent me last year.

The lounge is our secret hideout. No one else knows it's here.

Merry Christmas!

Clam displays nicely. Well done! Congrats.

Welcome.

Hi. Welcome. I split this off into a topic of its own. While waiting for the bag experts to come along, a photograph could help.

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.