Steph

I also am unfamiliar with the name ... but eye-catching addition to your MK collection.

Hi. Welcome. That marble has a cold roll. Where the molten glass was not quite hot enough to allow the marble to be fully smoothed out on its trip down the rollers. The rollers are where machine-made marbles get rounded after the molten marble is released from the furnace. As to manufacturer I am leaning toward Jabo in Reno, Ohio. Time frame: 1990's or later

My vote is Vacor Spaghetti. They have been around since at least 1995, so very nearly 30 years.

Very interesting about where and why good stone can be found. I like a little science on a weekend morning.

My first thought was Jabo.

ooooooh

Uranium glass existed before UV lights did so that's an interesting question. My first thought without researching is to note that there is UV in sunlight, so maybe uranium gave glass a certain little something extra which could be appreciated in daylight? Or maybe dayglow has nothing to do with it. Maybe people just liked the yellow/green colors that uranium allowed them to produce. Pure speculation on my part. My quick google search didn't tell me anything.

Have heard of pigtails from Akro. I thought I had seen them posted by Dani. Maybe I have. But in this thread it was posted by Alan.

I do want a snow blower. Would have been good today. But as I was out there shoveling for all that time I was thinking how natural it felt to be moving the snow out of the drive onto the growing snowbanks. Oddly natural considering it's not something I experienced for the first 40 years of my life. We lost power for about three hours midweek in that first predicted storm which didn't amount to much. I guess the wind was strong enough for just a brief spell to damage a transformer but little snow to speak of. The storm that started yesterday made up for it. About a foot of snow here.

The view from my drive .... and I'm not done shoveling yet. Gotta get back out and finish before those single digits hit.

I wasn't sure I was seeing the base color right. I considered it might be CAC. I think Alley is more likely. But I too am interested to hear what others say.

'We don't know what the marble is but we feel free to declare that it's rare.'

They look modern to me.

My first impression was like Rick's, thinking maybe Akro at 9:00 and Vitro on the others. But gosh they all go together so well.

The mouse is cute! but yeah, fake. The sharpie marbles are made with used ball mill balls. Very dense industrial spheres. I think these two were made differently by a different person than the sharpie marbles -- not just drawn on -- but still modern.

Gorgeous. Congrats.

This one is oxblood.

sounds appealing did anyone play with you?

The bubble pops on the middle make me wonder if it's Vacor

lol ... yeah, I see a few good ones.

Art has a great point. We have the 100 post threshold before new members can post in our Buy-Sell-Trade forum to let people establish themselves before getting into trades on the site. But we allow people to post their ebay auctions in the main chat forum without worrying about post count, so there is gray area. Of course ebay has its own buyer protections. My main problem with the proposal is how to set a market value for an unexamined collection of unknown condition. If you guys want to chat about getting together there's no offense. Just take the usual care in dealing with people you don't know yet.

I think the second marble is a Jabo, made in Reno, Ohio after 1991. The first looks vintage, and I want to say West Virginia Swirl, which at the .8 inch size would point me toward Alley. This particular view almost looks like separate ribbons ribbons meeting at a small cutline, which isn't expected on a WV swirl though, so I'm holding back, but everything else looks quite suitably swirly. 🤔

@Alan, is that what you're addressing here? How a non-Akro might come up with a flisheye-like feature?