Steph

Same glow result wouldn't necessarily mean same family.  But those do indeed seem to be mostly and maybe entirely Jabo.  I keep wanting that tan and green to be Alley -- and one day I should fish out the marbles which make me want that to be so -- but I think they also get a Jabo ID.

The consistency of the white leans me away from Ohio and  toward West Virginia.  

 

Found!  What a relief.  And worth the more than an hour I spent out combing through the grass.  

This is a test run from June 1.  Passed with flying colors.







But ... somewhere between the first picture and the second, I lost a marble.   I had them outside for sunlight photos. I stepped inside to get a t-shirt for a new background.  I don't think I was gone long enough for anyone to investigate  and find a marble and get brave enough to take one.  So I guess it's lost in the grass???!!!  The yard doesn't get mown until I find the marble.  ... back to the search now.

Bruce had a good question?  Are any marble shows still on?

Congrats on the sweet marbles.

A let down to not have more marbles inside, but the coffee can's a pretty good idea for someone wanting to display their marbles and not have hundreds hidden away inside.   Now  you've got me thinking about what I can put in some of my marble jars.  A paper towel roll sounds good for jars .... 

Aw, I liked your picture!   Just sharing how deep I got into it!    

19 hours ago, Marbleized said:

 Just thought I'd add a photo of a few of my glowing marbles.  Looks like they belong in a mad scientist's lab. : o

 

Cool photo.  I put in a lot of practice taking blacklight photos way back when.  I sorted my UV glass by brightness.  In some of the less bright groups, I got some interesting colors.  And then in those less bright groups, some shades photographed more brightly than others, so I bumped some of the marbles up to a brighter class or down to a less bright class, in order to get balanced pictures.   I had lots of fun with that.  Ended up with a "sun" tan on my left wrist from where I propped my long tube blacklight trying to get it into just the right position as I worked my camera with my right hand. 

The reasons I put them in a jar to enjoy without worrying about who made them.   

Akro slag seems a pretty good guess for #3.

It is a Peltier Multicolor Rainbo.  An NLR-era marble.  

 

Oh. My. Gosh.

My one and only guess on that one would have been vintage European. 

 ... glower gives you a great shot at Carnelian  I think that's what it is. 

2nd row

#1 Peltier. 

#2  a very nice flame which at first I thought was christensen but the backside looks more Alley


3rd row 

#2 could be Master, #4 is Vitro.  I'm wondering about Akro Carnelian on #3.  And Peltier or Vitro on #1.

Marbles are often thought of has having one or more ribbons and a base.   The base glass would usually be the glass that that there is the most of in the marble. 

You appear to  have red, white and blue ribbons on a translucent base.  So,  base here is about the make-up of the glass, not about the position on the geometric object.   

Could be Jabo.   

 

All that for three dollars?

You did very well indeed.

Based on structure and what I thought might be a faint memory, I was thinking West Virginia swirl.

But wvrons is "the man" when it comes to all things West Virginia, including Akros. 

Hi.  Welcome.  You have a wide range of marbles.  Many from the first half of the 1900's.  Some (particularly the cat's eyes) which would be from later.   

The red white and blue marble which you highlighted in a solo shot is interesting to me.  Maybe start a new thread with two or three views  of that one.  An introductory thread with a big group of marbles is okay to give us a taste of what you have.  However, to get ID's, it's best to limit the number of marbles per thread.  If you have more than a few in a thread it can be very hard to identify which marble we're talking about.  And if more views are needed, it can get very hairy indeed.

 

I somehow ended up with a very enjoyable box of old German handmades and related older marbles.   Wasn't intentional. I just had a single box that I would put them in when I very occasionally got one.  Then lo and behold, it got full, and I could go to the attic right now and open it up and  find marbles that would surprise me this very day to find out that I do have one of those after all.  

 

Oh gee ... just one marble?   A 1" Marble King BumbleBee with a classic patch-and-ribbon pattern.   

If I could have two, the second one would be a 1" Akro Superman, with evenly balanced colors in a simple clean corkscrew pattern. 

Keeping it simple and classic. 


Uh oh ... now I'm remembering my spotted dick and the other marbles in my advent calendar.  

Nope, sorry, I just broke my brain.  

But seriously, when I go to my nursing home, any single marble will do to capture this part of my life,  probably a large size for better viewing, and  better if it was a gift.  

Yes, Akro might have sold that one in a Cardinal box.

Red was a popular marble color.  Akro sold it in assorted color slag boxes under the name Onyx.   And they sold it in purely red slag boxes under the name Cardinal.


Similar to the marketing of the Peltier rainbo with a white base and red ribbons.    Could have been sold in a box of assorted color Rainbos. Or could have been sold in a box with just the red on white color combo and labeled Bloodies.  

  Thanks!   I recognize the transparent red in the Akros in this  last post!  Funny how something you take for granted sometimes seems out of place other times. 

I'm not sure if a different picture would help.   If vintage the red and white one could be Christensen Agate, the greenish one could be Alley Agate.  

Maybe one of the swirl specialists will recognize them.