Steph

With that glass texture, I can see why you would hope for CAC, but I don't know.

I wouldn't classify it as a game marble. If vintage then maybe a really wacky Akro. But the looping would make some people jump right to modern and Jabo.

Nice neat 9 on the middle might suggest MFC. The lack of regularity on the bottom one suggests Akro. The lack of roundness on the 9 on the top one makes me consider something like Akro ... but maybe someone else will look at the color clues and see a different maker.

That makes my 8th Tater Bug ... I have a pretty nice collection of those. Here are my previous 7 -- four of which came from you. ❤️

Awwww ... that's so sweet.

These are from my Christmas Alleys. Do they have a name? They seem darker in hand than most of the Sweet Baby Gray pictures I've seen. But maybe everyone's are darker and we all used sunlight to bring out the shades? They also seem simpler than some of the Sweet Baby Gray pictures I've seen so ... ? It won't hurt my feelings if they turn out not to have a name.

I would not suppose German on this one. Based on the pattern I would lean toward West Virginia swirl ... the bulk of which were made in the 1930's and 1940's. But I am not an expert on those, and there are non-WV possibilities.

Hi. Nice to meet you. A diverse group of marbles.

Hi there. The colors on the bottom look so crisp that I'm thinking maybe Christensen. I'll let someone else field the Alley location questions.

Hi. Welcome. Yes, it is a handmade Bennington from Germany.

I picked this set up last week. Copyright 2017, MegaMarbles Manufacturer listed as GLASFIRMA S.A. de C.V.

What I think I can make out of the structure does make me think you have an Akro moonie here.

It does appear to be a Carnelian. Check it out with a blacklight. There may have been some Carnelians sold whose base did not glow, but if you have a nice greenish uranium glow from the base then Carnelian is a lock.

@Marbleized, feel free to add your examples!

Bibi had her name when we got her. She was almost 3 years old. And she's the most responsive cat I've ever seen to her name. So no changing it. Somewhere around here I have a thread where I was keeping track of the different marble names I had seen. I think I slid some foreign names in there, but mostly it was about names from different times in history.

Ha! I just noticed Ron's cat. Funny that it also has an M on its forehead like my Akrocat! That has to mean something!

I ran the question by Edna. She says it's been a long time but she remembers a former Blenko employee ending up in one of the WV marble maker's shops -- maybe Charles Gibsons' shop -- but though she visited, she didn't see any marbles which interested her.

I never even knew there were handpainted examples .....

oh noooo .... that's sad .... and hilarious I would pop right up and offer to help with that, but I guess I need to wait to see where the stock market bottoms out.

Yes. MK. Tricolor Rainbow.

sooooo nicely displayed beautiful

Chuck ... those Champion-like marbles are freaky ... I don't want to think about them!

nice and busy

I know know about knock-off. There are lots of makers who had "fire" in their marbles for various reasons. What do you mean by blue spot? Something with a fiery white base and a blue patch could be a Peltier Acme Realer, for example.