Steph

Number of colors in a Vitro hybrid cat's eye is important.  Two is standard.  So the more you get beyond that the better.

Asian cat's eyes commonly have 3 colors -- some are arranged in a way which make them special.   I need to get or find a picture showing the "cross-through" pattern.  

What specifically about colored translucent glass. 

You too!

I'm having trouble deciding whether the top marble is modern or vintage.  If modern, could be Jabo or Champion.  If vintage, could still be Champion.

Actually I'm having trouble deciding modern or vintage on all of them.  The middle two are very interesting.  

I think the blue and white one on top is a Vacor.    Hard to say with the lighting on the group of three below that.  I expect they're "clearies".   Under that group I think I'm seeing a Jabo.   As you can see, I'm starting to have difficulty pointing out which marble I'm attempting to ID.  That's why it's good to post just a few per thread -- so that it's easier to point out which ones we're discussing, and so things don't start getting super complicated if additional photos are needed.

The brown and white one below the probable Jabo might be a West Virginia swirl.   I think Vacor or Jabo on the one below that.  Maybe more Jabos after that.  The last marble looks like another Vacor. 

 Thanks for posting all of those, but especially thanks for posting the lavender Jabos.  You have a nicer selection than I do.  They are "classics" and  that glow is from the Fenton Burmese cullet which Jabo used.   And that's all the extra detail I know for them.

I'll vote Akro slag.

What a nice marble.  And I don't know.  I don't associate that kind of deep clear red with Akro.

I'll toss Master and Vitro in for consideration.   How unhelpful is that?

Bruce, yours looks like a legit old marble, but I don't know whose.

I'm stuck between Akro and CAC.

Yeah, that's right in the middle.  Seams curved but longish.

I'm currently leaning Akro.

Row 1: Vitro  (Definitely on left, feeling good about it on right)

Row 3: Vitro on left, Akro on right.

Row 2:  WV swirls.  First thought Ravenswood, but I'm really not good with Ravenswood so wait for someone else.

 

Nice bump!   We have a date!

 P.s., I couldn't remember where I had stashed that 1902 clipping.  So double bonus points for bumping this thread! 

I don't know.  I'm considering Vitro possibilities but I don't know. 

Not Vitro.   A slag. 

Christensen Agate or European.  

I"m going to say contemporary torchmade marble.  It certainly has something odd going on. 

Oh.  Good question.  I am leaning yes, but I am not 100%. 

P.s., I just found out that MFC only made the purple slags for a short time, but we're talking about amber so moving right along.

A lot of people would say MFC, as a catch-all handgathered slags in the basic colors of amber, blue, green, purple and white.

CAC, Akro and Peltier also made handgathered slags though, and I wouldn't know how to tell them apart.  MFC is a possibility.   So is CAC and Akro.  (So probably is Peltier.)   

It might qualify to be one of the "milk" variations.  Not a buttermilk though.

Here's Chuck B's description:

"Buttermilks have a red band on one side, a parallel red/blue band on the other side and a translucent buttermilk yellow base, sometimes with white."
 

http://joemarbles.com/3Marble Articles/Chuck Brandstetter/0002 Older Vitro Marbles (Tri-Lites).htm

Akro wouldn't be my first guess.  It seems to have both a tail and a long seam.  I don't think of those two things being together on a marble.  But either one opens the door up to other possibilities than Akro.  

More pics?

The $1500 Alley that they're calling a Peltier Galaxy?  I don't recognize the seller.   Looks like they could really think they have a galaxy and have priced it accordingly. 

Bumping this for Bonnie!  Let's show her some blacklight photos and note the marble maker.  

Bonnie, Bruce's pistachios up there are Alley.  Probably?  Unless someone comes by and says maybe Ravenswood, assume Alley.  

I'm still confused about what kind of light you're using, Bonnie.

Could you go into a dark area and shine it on those lavender Jabos and take a picture of the result?  

CAC   

was quite edible