Steph

But Champion does seem a good guess ... it has a sort of furnace-y essence. Part of me hoped it was a Christensen transparent swirl ... Champion seems more likely by the odds.

Not an MFC nine. (Not the handgathered nine-and-tail.) CAC for me.

Solid vote for Akro.

Awesome display! .... so ... how ya feeling?

Hello. Welcome. Don't know if there are any company sites left to dig at, with or without permission. Ron has done a LOT of digging over the years. If there's anything left, he would know. @wvrons

I don't know. @sarab is pretty brave. She might already have come up with a plan on what to try. Mike didn't give details -- just water soluble liquid polymer floor wax. Do you have a cleaning supplies store? Maybe you could call your local school and ask them about how to get supplies. Of course they would buy in bulk. Gosh, I don't know. I'd be doing a lot of label reading, asking employees, etc. And experimenting on a less important marble to start with. I was leaning toward hardware. The tire store? I'm going to guess that the polishes which they would have wouldn't be water soluble. But that's just a guess. Here's a list of polishes you could read the descriptions of. One of them might promise to be water soluble: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=water+soluble+polymer+floor+wax&ref=nb_sb_noss

Charming keepsake. I know how to do it.

I would like one. Just one. But I still haven't settled on which one to get.

One of my earliest most joyous marble memories was getting a stocking full of marbles for Christmas 1976, which included many sizes of clearies -- some super small. I'm pretty sure they came from a Champion Bicentennial bag, but was told the marbles were probably Alley. LOL. No pictures -- you all know what clearies look like -- just a happy memory.

DAS = Dave's Appalachian Swirls, which is Dave McCullough's current operation. They're modern marbles in special investor runs, continuing a tradition that Dave started when he was at Jabo. Don't know about "sponsored". Is that showing up on the DAS listings? Then that could be the name of the group investing in the run. As to Ruby Bee and such, a lot of sellers see a catchy name and then wrongly apply it to their marbles. Little rhyme or reason, buyer beware. @wvrons would be a good person to talk ghosts with us. I have a vague idea involving the cloudy translucent glass -- ghostly right? -- but Ron has specifics.

Beautiful. And I don't know who made it. Just that it's very pretty.

Peltier slag on the blue. Single seam on the green? I suppose that could lean toward Christensen. I have single seamers from other makers, but the marble already had Christensen possibilities, so that might add up. I don't know what clues a green glow in the green glass might give us. WV swirl on the gray. Not quite making out patch (?) shape and seam shape on the red. (I'm presuming patch, but not even sure of that so far. )

With that cutline and side stripe, we're still in Master or foreign territory. I can't swear it's not German. I'm not aware of that as a German style. Would lean toward Asian ... but could very well have been imported to Germany.

Oh no! Never had them but watched my husband suffer. I hope the ordeal is over soon.

Yes, that would fit in the swirly version of the Akro Moss Agate family.

Would like more views of the first one. Master seems like a good guess for it. But need to see cutlines. Bruce, I don't have a good feel for yours. More views could help on that also ... but might not do any good. There are some unusual base glass bananas which are attributed to Peltier though I'm unaware of packaging or provenance. But Master and foreign are also possibilities for the general style.

Ooooh. Hey ... I think you could be onto something! P.s., that base did look pelty to me from the start -- that's why I was asking leading questions about it.

Are you on a computer? (as opposed to a smartphone, which I don't have so I don't know how they work) Do you have a Windows system? If so, can you find the Windows Paint program? That is what I use to resize pictures. But for now, I've given you one of your Masters as an avatar.

That's one of the nice things about the water-soluble polymer finish. If you don't like it and wish you had left the marble alone, you can undo it. Not as heavy a decision as it would be with one of the irreversible reconditioning methods. You could practice on a different marble if you were still worried about what would be involved.

I wish I had never parted with a single aggie. I haven't had a lot, but the veterans with all the moons? I sold some of those on ebay. Wish I never sold a marble. Well, selling Jabos did help me make the down payment for my house. But I wish I still had most of the rest of the marbles I ever sold.

That blue one is showing a "cutline". That's sort of the "top" of the marble. The glass was sheared there. And then the marble went down rollers and they didn't fully smooth out the pinched place. On the white ones, I'm not sure if I'm seeing a cutline or a different kind of crease. But the crease I see is called a "cold roll". Again, the rollers didn't fully smooth it out. And it gets the name "cold roll" because the reason it wouldn't smooth out fully is that the molten glass just just a little bit too cool when it dropped onto the rollers. But I can't give you a good answer on production errors being valuable. There are some which would be. And probably most would not be.

Oddballs can be fascinating.

If you try it and it works out, show us the before and after.

That was Stefan's question. More than one of us Stephs/Stefs floating around. So, no, I don't have any extra info about brands.

Oh, the clearies could possibly be older but we can't be sure. The giant clearies are interesting to me no matter how old.