Steph

Aw, thank you. And thank you for being here with your great posts.

For sure Peltier Multicolor Rainbo on the right. Tentatively Alley, Alley, Christensen on the first three.

Some modern marbles come with an iridescent coating. Some Vacors have it. Some Jabos did. And I imagine some from Asia have it. I'm not aware of vintage marbles having the iridescent finish.

I think vintage. A distinctive marble type that I've seen several times before. I might even have one. But I don't know if I ever saw a definitive ID on this style. If I do have one, I probably got it in a lot which was half Alley and half another company (I don't recall which) and the marbles were in a display case and fell out of the case in transit and got all mixed up and I was too new to collecting to promptly deal with the situation and sort the marbles out. If I had done that, I might know right now what that mysteriously attractive marble is.

I don't have as many as Ron but my Akroware has a cat! Miss Bibi was intrigued by the new arrivals.

Another good question, and I do not know., but I'll also put this question where more might see it.

I'm going to send this question over to the main chat area. I could hypothesize about Peltiers -- thinking about the cost-saving measures which they started adopting in the last half of the 30's -- but ???

Most out-of-round marbles would have come from the factory that way and weren't reconditioned. Probably different reasons for out-of-round. Before I start ad-libbing, I probably should ask if you have any particular marbles in mind. Antique German marbles would have different reasons for being out of round than modern Jabos would. I have been under the impression that machine-made marbles were more likely to be round during the age when kids were playing a lot of marbles, so I suppose that's where I'm most curious if you're thinking of examples there. P.s., we lost Leroy in 2018

Hi. I'm leaning strongly to this being an Alley Agate. Alley Agate history at Joemarbles.com

Made me smile. And good on you for doing your research.

Cedarman is a marble collector who sells marbles. Just a person.

Now I have three more coming. Nothing fancy. Just an opportunity which came up and I said yes.

Would guess after 1930. Would not be sure I guessed right.

The older clays were sometimes called "commies" because they were so common. I think the ones you made are beautiful. Might take a bit to develop a following but it could happen. I can think of a couple of makers of ceramic marbles who established their works as collectible.

Hi. Welcome. That does look like glass to me. More views might help with the ID.

I've decided. I'm going to sift the dirt off and put it in a baggie and then clean the marbles and put them in my Pennsboro box. I better do that before too much Wisconsin dust gets mixed in with the WV dirt.

a magazine cover from Paul Germann

Yup. European. (Veiligglas, Amsterdam) on the large flamy ones.

At the end of November you get a bag of dug Alleys and now it's February and you're still not sure if you want to wash off the dirt .... That's West Virginia dirt!

Vitro sounds good. I am not familiar with "neon conqueror". My first thought is that this would be a Tri-Lite. Not sure about that. But if Tri-Lite then age estimate is about ten years older than Conquerors. *goes off to learn about "neon conquerors"*

Hypnotic!

oh yes! CAC all the way!

For tournament play the max size is usually 3/4". I remember getting a Marble King bag which said a shooter in every bag but it was hard to tell which marble was slightly larger than the rest. When I found it, I had the impression that it was close to 5/8" and the rest of the marbles may have been slightly smaller. So, for small fingers, shooters could be considered notably less than 3/4". And then in the unofficial category, there is the common practice of referring to everything 3/4" and larger as shooters. So how about that for covering every marble size higher than 9/16" ....