Steph

Yep, those would be pontils. Melon ball.

Top 1. Don't know 2. Peltier, nice size ... with the three colors of ribbon, I would agree with "Multicolor Rainbo" but not getting a feel for age. Sometime in the 30's I'd suppose, but don't know about earlier or later. 3. Akro 4. First thought was Master but the seams being longish and flattish at least on one end is making me hold back. Bottom 1. Vitro blackline all-red 2. St. Marys Alley (later Alley, 1940's) 3. I think Vitro 4. I see your dilemma. The yellow looks Peltier. Either one of those greens with the yellow would not surprise in a Pelt. But both of them together makes me consider Vitro possibilities. Still that yellow looks so very Pelty including the air pop, so that's where I'm landing.

Hawaii to Rochester ... ohmigosh ... what a jolt. We got down to the 20's last night so I'm still in limbo but I only moved up here from Oklahoma and now have had almost 20 years to get used to it.

difficult .....

These might be West Virginia swirls. Could be getting more modern here. I'm going to guess newer Champion Agate on the brown/red/orange ones -- maybe from the 1980s? (Champion started in vintage times but lasted into modern times.) If they were larger sized I might have suggested Jabo (from the 1990's) but as busy as they are, and them being a normal marble size, I'm leaning back toward Champion. As shiny as the blue is in one of the shots, Champion might be a good guess for that one also, but the transparent swirls are especially hard to pin down. If Ron weighs in, go with whatever he thinks.

Ron, I thought about Anacortes Vitro because of that blue but let myself be influenced by the age of the other marbles he has been posting. Terry, if it's Anacortes that would make the marble later -- from maybe the late 80's. Which would mean a somewhat newer marble slipped into your largely vintage collection. It's been known to happen.

With that pattern, I lean Alley. The photos look good to me.

The pink is damaged AND handmade. It is German. The bottom left view shows a pontil. The pink is a "melon ball". The blue ... does it have such a pontil? It has the look of either a German melon ball or a 1930's Master Cloudy. But it might be too large for a Cloudy ... not sure offhand how big those got. The Cloudy was a machine-made style. So ... do we have a pontil? On the yellow if that is a purposeful stem, then that's a decoration. German glass companies could be engaged in the production of marbles, beads or decorative glass at the same sites. I guess it's possible that it's something that accidentally stuck into the marble and the marble was discarded. But if that was a marketed item, then decoration.

Machine-made patch. I'd guess 1930's or 1940's. The structure makes me think of Akro but with the coloring that is not a slam dunk for me. I'm considering Vitro or non-American possibilities. Hopefully someone else will recognize it.

Yes, go ahead and start a new thread for your next close-up ... but I can tell you that this one is an Akro Tri-Color Agate, from the 1930's or 1940's.

Opalescent base is a defining characteristic of the Peltier Acme Realer. I think I also have some patches with opalescent green bases. Slags have transparent color base and opaque white swirls, so not opalescent. I'm not sure about whether anyone has found opalescence in NLR's. But Realers are NLR-era so I suppose it wouldn't be too surprising. Here's a picture of Realers from the gallery:

Hi. I posted an answer in the other thread. Sometimes the forum hiccups and makes duplicate posts. Possibly from double clicks on the submit button, but not sure. It just happens. No worries.

Hi, Terry. Welcome. You have a wide assortment. The bottom is mostly common clays but on the right side there are a couple of benningtons and a couple which might be jaspers. (Would be good to have another look at them.) This third group could be from the 1800's through early 1900's. The middle group is mostly handmade German marbles from the 1850's to early 1900's. There are also some Japanese cat's eyes from the 1950's. And one or more machine-made swirls. Possibly a couple other types. Top picture is an assortment of vintage machine-mades. I see some Peltiers, some Akros. Possibly a foreign marble which resembles Peltiers. Maybe some West Virginia swirls. Maybe a slag. A cat's eye -- maybe Japanese, maybe Vitro. Start a new thread with just a few marbles. And a separate thread with a few other marbles. And so on. A big group photo gives us a good feel for what you have -- and you have some nice marbles. For specific IDs, it's best to only have a few marbles per thread. Cuts down the opportunities for confusion.

Pelt to me. The tan-based ones are called Muddies.

Yeah, orange peel is a clue but not a slam dunk. Not all orange peel is Vacor, not all Vacors have orange peel. However, based on the seams and colors, I'm leaning strongly toward Akro on the right.

Okay ... I've fixed some. Sadly, two of the pictures were from Mike Barton's photobucket. Reconstructing that will be more challenging.

Crazy isn't it. No snow here. At least no accumulation. 30% chance of small amounts today and a cold wind from the north. And I know that makes us the lucky ones. But I really really really had hoped to transplant some of my seedlings into the garden by now!

I think you're right Akro did still have an onyx corkscrew line for some part of the 1930's, was still on a wholesale ad in 1933, so maybe they didn't get the news yet and since it was a small part of their production maybe they escaped the trade commission police.

Old threads will sink to the bottom. Start a New ViewC thread. And don't worry. We all know what it's like to take a while to find our groove.

Which thread?

Thanks for sharing, Ron.

Right is a machine-made cat's eye. Not handgathered. Not American. I would immediately have thought Asian with that pattern, but the size looks HUGE, which makes me wonder if it's Mexican. (What size is it?) Center is handgathered. Left I think is also not handgathered. I think machine-made. Unusual coloring which is making me unable to guess modern or vintage.

Odd that this first date is at the end of WWII. .... So was it wartime which reduced the exports or was it other companies starting up after the war and deciding marbles was a good business to get into?

Peltier Rainbo. If the base glass is green then it can be called a 7-Up.

Your pictures are NOT horrible! The thing to be aware of is that cameras try to achieve a color balance. If you have a white background it will darken the photo and shift the color in what it considers a gray direction. That's why a gray background is recommended. It's neutral and makes the camera less likely to think it needs to change the colors. Frosted could be something a maker did on purpose, probably in modern times. Marble King made some of their cat's eyes frosty. Or it could be marbles which spent a lot of time in water, such as in an aquarium.