Steph

(not seeing Akro or CAC)

If vintage, then I'd go with some West Virginia swirl manufacturer on these.  

This could be Marble King.  Could be Vitro.  Could be some other company which usually does patches (which could include Akro but that's low on my list)

Very rarely is it possible to i.d. them with any confidence.  In the past I have found it amusing to try to detect whether they were made on a swirl machine or a patch machine but  most probably wouldn't believe or care if someone said they could sort them by manufacturer or decade.   

I have a special fondness for them but they're commons.  

Good question, Bruce!

Six!  I'm impressed.  I too lack lady taters.

But am blessed to have my tater bug family.  

 

I've heard of someone who calls himself Dr. Marbles on facebook.  Did video sessions.  But I never became acquainted with him.

The bubble is a nice little surprise inside, but I don't think it means anything for the ID.  I agree with Alley flame. 

Yes, Vacor on the red and yellow.  A modern slipped in with the vintages.

And Alley on the white and orange.

Consider Alley.  On both.  

Alley "West Virginian" immediately popped to mind for the one on the right.  

 

scrumptious

I got a face full of fall leaves from a blast of wind while walking home yesterday.   It was awesome.  

When I have a picture on my computer that I want to work on in Paint, I right click on the picture then hover over the "open with" option.  That gets me to the option to open it in Paint. 

Oh yeah, another beautiful corkscrew.

Are the clays super large or are the benningtons super small?  

Pretty.

 

Wow!

That's a humdinger.

I'm not seeing it as metallic.  From this angle it looks like fractures.

So what device are you using?  I asked earlier because if you're on a phone, I have no idea what to say.  

I don't have a cellphone.  My husband does, but I don't know how to use it. 

I have a Windows computer.   And I use the very basic Paint program on Windows to resize pictures.   

Yes, they should be clearly identified.

I'm not aware of how well they would sell.   Most sentiment that I know of is against polishing except for one's personal collection, and even then many times people are against polishing.  Most of the positive feedback about polishing that I've been aware of in the past has been because there was one much-loved man who was doing polishing and people wouldn't want to hurt his feelings.  That was Leroy.

But Leroy has passed away, and that brings up the question of who might still be available to polish?  And would they be anywhere near as affordable as Leroy was?

So that's one other thing to consider -- if you were polishing marbles in order to sell them, would the cost of polishing be more than the marble could bring at market?  


As you can see, I have more questions than answers.  But I think I've given a pretty good summary of issues involved, if not resolutions of the issues.

Pretty sure those would be near an inch. 

The tiny one is adorable.  

Click on your name to the side of your post.   Look for the little bitty picture icon by your current avatar.  





Click on that.  Then you get the option to "choose single file" and for me that let me choose a picture from my computer.  I picked a kitten.  (Are you on a computer?  I don't know how to access things on phones.  Only my own computer.)

Then I chose the "continue" option and I moved the sides of the box around to contain the part of the picture I liked best.

I think Master or maybe Akro for maker.  Leaning Master now but a view of the opposite end could change things. 

Probably need more views.  The light is doing a fine job showing color but it's obscuring structure (such as seam shape).  Do you have a flash feature on your camera.  That might illuminate the structure.

I see why you could think oxblood. 

In the last photo though, I think I see a glow in the thread meaning that light is passing through it.  That would rule out oxblood.