Steph

I should have probably tinkered more before. I only just now noticed the blog.

This is the address I use in my bookmarks: https://www.billes-en-tete.com/liste_billes.php Takes me straight to the pictures, usually with the option to translate the text.

Mineral spheres. Obviously value could depend on stone type. I don't think very valuable in general. I saw a beautiful agate with a glorious pattern go for less than $20 last week in a facebook auction.

Yes, it's a relief to have it back. I count on it a lot. P.s., I never thought to try to register. I wasn't able to either, but that never got in the way of pulling up pictures.

I think Alley in the middle, with Vitro in the #2 and #4 spots. Would be interested in other views of the one on the right.

More modern-ish packaging: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/25482-so-many-photos-ps-gropper-vitros

Hopefully I will remember this! I just now checked my old Gropper thread and see it had mostly older marbles ... but that Ric had posted something with Heatons, making me aware at the time that they had jobbered marbles past the Christensen and early Pelt eras. (The photo is missing now.)

I got some tiny clearies in a bicentennial bag when I was kid ... but I have some teensy untinted clear ones which were used in the plastic pumps in plastic bottles at my husband's work. Now I have to go look for my various little ones to see which are closest to 7.7mm

Good stuff, Maynard!

The Gropper bag leaped out at me ... one reason I need to work harder on planting things in my memory again ... I did not recall the Gropper name being associated with Vitros. I don't remember Gropper being associated with marbles long enough to have the opportunity to jobber Vitro cat's eyes.

It's way past time for me to start cataloging the photographs George Sourlis has sent me over the years -- I need to internalize what I've received and know where to look for them when the need arises. No time like the present. I'll start the project with these which came in the mail today.

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!