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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.

P.s., seeing more structure now my best guess for the marble is Jabo but still I'm not 100% on it.

Maybe Vitro on left?

In the album some such as this one still look unfocused. But you can see the glass above it in sharp detail. I use Windows Paint to resize photos to bring overlarge ones to a manageable size and reasonable sharpness. However, your issue appears to be something other than the size. The background that you're using is causing your camera to focus on the non-marble parts of the view. Pick a neutral background without a lot of detail for the camera to focus on. A regularly recommended background is a gray t-shirt. If you keep picking up details on the material behind the marble and the marble stays blurry, then pull your camera back just a little to try to help the marble get into a comfortable focal range.

That thick bright white stands out. Like latex paint on the surface of the marble. It's weird that it shows up both in early Japanese marbles and later Mexican marbles. But it always raises the flag saying "think of foreign".

Coooool. Thanks for playing with me! Pelt Mibber, is there aventurine in the glowing ribbon of your second marble? Not sure I've ever seen that before.

Yes, that's the view. I suspect that this one is a Vacor. That view isn't definitive but it is consistent with my suspicion. Possibly a Tidal Wave. So I'm going vintage on the other two, modern on this one.