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Hi. Mix of new and oldish. Nothing is jumping out (to me) as remarkable. For specific ID's best to have just a few marbles per thread. And have them arranged in a way which makes it easy to to indicate which one is under discussion. Sometimes multiple views will be needed. The black marbles with speckles are newer ones and are not from the U.S. That style is still in production. The largest marble could be a Marble King -- not getting a good feel for what decade it might be from. The bottom middle in the bottom picture (do you see how this could start to get confusing really quickly? ) ... that might be a Master, from say the 1950's, but I'd need at least one more view before I was confident.

indeed

A game of marbles sure needed a lot less expensive equipment than most of the games I hear about these days. Could become a champion with very few resources.

Cleaning up some old photo accounts and I keep finding fun stuff. Might as well post it, eh? Wine glasses featuring marbles.

I'll say yes to Ravenswood on the left. Then I'll bow out!

Very nice. I love the old black and white. But this makes the occasions feel more real.

Maybe some version of this? https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=233

Simplicity is good. Loving ALL the bumps.

Yes, with this structure, pattern and glass texture, I join the foreign vote. And add "modern".

Another possibility is to go ahead and list on ebay but with a high reserve. Then the prospective bids you get could give you an idea of value, plus you'd likely get contacts from potential buyers.

Hi. For non-ebay, and not at a marble show, Morphy Auctions is a consideration: https://www.morphyauctions.com/

I would have said Master and felt really good about it but Ron knows way more than I do.

These tournament stories are snapshots of history. Often with so much extra information which you wouldn't have imagined before reading the articles. And this story is extra special. The young champion, Clarence "Sonny" Dibble, is the uncle of our new member @Bob Wuehrmann who sent us the clippings. From the Charleston, South Carolina News and Courier archives.

West Virginia Swirl. The circle is some kind of error -- I'm not sure if it's from getting hung up on machinery or if it's lost glass from a later incident.

An end of another chapter in marble history. Condolences to her family.

3.5 inches. With oxblood and uranium. Pictures by Dani. It was more impressive in person than I expected. My heart sped up as I took it out of the mailer. And it's got the little crow on the bottom. *squeal*

Short, fudged answer: yes! It is sometimes called a Transparent Whitie. It is probably in the Tiger Eye family but looks like a Whitie so that's what my Vitro guru called it. And he told me that they were often found in the cellophane tubes such as those which came as prizes at the bottom of cereal boxes.

Shared by a friend today. Viking board game piece made of glass and dating back 1,200 years is found on island off the coast of England

I was thinking of the one straight seam (and the other still-longish seam) ... together with a faint memory of interesting blues I've seen before in Akros.

aww ... nice post ❤️ and the pictures are fine! ... I suspect WV swirl on yours. Maybe a Cairo Novelty due to the pattern and the translucent base. Maybe?

Chicken vindaloo ... OMG ... been wanting to try it ever since binge-watching Red Dwarf. Do NOT need to do that again.

A few extra non-marble items on another page at the same site: https://shop.houseofmarbles.com/category/gift-home/teign-valley-glass-gift-home/

Out of the blue I remembered the name "Teign Valley". I had tried to remember it on other occasions but it just popped into my head tonight. Marbles made in England. https://shop.houseofmarbles.com/category/marbles/show-me-the-marbles/collectors-marbles/teign-valley-glass-marbles/ Pickings seem a bit slim now. The Duke of York board shows some variety though and the elephant skin marble is not what I expected with the Teign Valley name.