Steph

yes, that looks Alley also

Maybe Alley Supermen on the outside.  

 

That was one of my leading candidates.  If Champion, I'm curious about what decade.  

 

I've been meaning to ask about these for about ten years now.   I'm hopeful that they're from the same maker, but who?

I am not committed to them being as old as the box that they came in.   The white is not quite white and much of it glows under blacklight.  The yellowish marble glows the most.  The black with the thin white ribbon is opaque.  Three of the other dark(ish) marbles are translucent -- their base looks nearly transparent amber when held up to a light.

A few look egg-shaped in the photos but they're round in hand.  My macro setting stretches things out on the edges.  

Two sunshine photos and one blacklight.

Here's an ad from the early Marble King company years when they were still offering swirls.

Berry Pink was promoting the Marble King brand at least 10 years before the Marble King company was officially founded.

And for the first five or so years that the Marble King company existed, Marble King packaging was being filled with old Alley stock.  

Pretty sure Akro on both.  

The top being sold as a Moss Agate.  I don't know what the bottom would have been sold as.  Maybe it was a dug marble.  

The "Twist Error Shimmering Orange Pumpkin Opal Champion Furnace Vintage Glass Marble"?

And it sold for over $25?

Criminy.  I am not feeling good about that listing.  

The top has the colors of a Vacor Picasso, but I suspect Jabo.

The rest are Jabo (or a contract run from another Dave McCullough operation such as Dave's Appalachian Swirls).

Slag.

I think Akro.  

Another West Virginia swirl.

It's a West Virginia swirl.  

I think good chance of Alley.

Hmmm ... peewee ... 

The glass looks Champion to me, but I don't know if Champion made Peewees.  There were Peewees found in Champion Bicentennial bags, but the marbles in the Bicentennial bags came from many makers.  Someone once told me the peewees in those bags were made by Alley.  

Well, enough rambling.  I don't know.

Master.

Yes.  Bennington.  

With red paint on it?

Handgathered for sure.  Nice pattern.

I don't think it's a slag, per se.

Those are either Peltier Rainbos or non-American marbles known as Figure 8's.

If Figure 8's, then possibly from Japan.  

I had one Pokemon marble.  I offered it to my Pokemon-player husband.  But I'm not sure if he took it or not.  

I didn't know that about toebreakers being 2".  

But the name I use for big 'uns probably applies to 1.22".  

I call them boulders.  

I do think it's Peltier.   I don't know about rare.  Peltiers vary so widely.  There are lots of oddballs.

 

Wait for a second opinion.  There are some distinct Christmas Trees and Ketchup & Mustards   which have some  translucence in the base, but the ribbon pattern reigns supreme there.  

There's a "tweener" zone where it's hard to decide whether the marbles fall on the NLR side or the Rainbo side.   Some don't like the name "tweener" so I don't jump to it easily -- I'll try to commit  to one or the other --  but sometimes tweener is the word which is needed.

I'd say Rainbo on all.   Some in the first group tempt me to consider NLR (with the offset ribbons on the left two and the large number of ribbons and two colors on the top right) but with the thin ribbons and translucency of the base I'll stay with Rainbo. 

I could see someone saying MK on the top left or bottom right in the last group but again  with the translucent base visible, I'm sticking with Pelt and Rainbo there also.  

I got some turquoise marbles at a thrift store.  The  lady in the sorting area in the back had a bag of marbles for filling in missing marbles from games.  She let me go through it and take out all the turquoise ones for a buck. 


Today I got a bag of mostly cat's eyes from a yard sale -- vintage but common.   A few rainbos and all-reds. A beat-up PPP.   I  told the folks what they had.  They enjoyed the lesson and then I asked what they wanted for 'em. They made me pick a price.  I offered 10 -- which I think was fair -- and  they agreed to it because they trusted my assessment.    And I got some other stuff.   Might be the first glass marbles I ever got at a yard sale.  I found some plastic Star Trek themed marbles once.  Yeah ... feels good to find any kind of vintage marbles in the wild.  

Welcome!  

Hope we can solve some mysteries.