Steph

Mmmmm ... spam and rice doesn't sound half bad .... I could see it with teriyaki sauce. Take care.

You are freaking me out! Where is the silver coming from? I guess it's a reflection from above ? Well a dark purple base with a white swirl _is_ a familiar combination. But I think a lot of WV swirl makers did it.

"purple clear base"? As in transparent purple? It sure looks like I'm seeing the silver from behind the marble coming up through the marble.

black and white ribbons in a clear base? That's different. I like but it's not ringing any bells at all.

That's beautiful! I was wanting to make something small. I love your concept.

I'm leaning toward Peltier. The pattern in the colors isn't looking stereotypically Peltier to me in these views. But the colors themselves and other aspects of the structure look Pelty.

I went to high school in Alabama ... but that was 40 years ago.

I had a sweet cursive S on a marble. When I asked someone if it was on purpose, they said no and I was disappointed. I didn't realize that it was cool with or without the design being intentional. So I let it go back into the big bowl of marbles, and I'm pretty sure it finally went away.

I'm strongly leaning modern but not 100% there yet.

p.s., other than "Akro corkscrew", I don't know a name for that favorite one of yours. It's not a common one -- it doesn't fit into the basic styles that I know the Akro company names for. Very pretty.

Hi Bonnie. Welcome. I haven't figured out how to make comments on photos in the gallery. Used to be able to. Something changed. If you go to any one of the subforums, such as the Marble ID forum, you should see a button near the top which says "Start Topic". That should get you to where you can paste or upload a few marble pics for discussion. You do some nice marbles, I can see from the gallery.

No worries on my part. Good luck in the endeavor.

Welcome! A nice vintage assortment.

Specifically I think this is generally known as a "German Striped Transparent".

oooooh ... vintage European sweet pattern

For anyone who might want to visit Joemarbles.com but who isn't able to access it (which I'm currently not able to), plug the address in at the wayback machine: https://archive.org/web/ Edit: Joemarbles.com is currently back up. A welcome sight.

I just noticed on Joe's facebook page that the news I had been dreading had been posted. It appears that he lost his battle with cancer on January 29. He leaves a big, inspiring family and many friends -- and he helped many marble collectors with Joemarbles.com. Here is his obituary. http://www.hamptongentry.com/obituary/terry-street-jr?fbclid=IwAR1MgBioQSXKV5ajzF0_smIM9swmJFr7ybRemhdktZEr-rQPGw049v81N_M

On the right, I'm with you on Akro, with the niggling thought that someone might recognize it as an Alley example. It's special for sure. On the left, I think just a game marble. Tossable.

I continue to be surprised by things I find as I sort through old boxes. The clues on the mailing envelope point to me having bought this booklet on eBay in 2008.

That's the $64,000 question. Not sure if the marble community still has anyone doing that.

No. Not blacklight. Just supposed to have some fire inside like a Moonie, or maybe more like a Pelt Acme Realer.

Welcome! A whole lot of history in those little orbs!

The only one of those which has a chance of being what Akro called an Ace is translucent white with the green ribbon. Hold it up to a light. If the base looks orange when you look through it, then Akro Ace. Butttttt ... Collectors call different marbles Ace from what Akro called an Ace. The translucent based one with the blue ribbon was called a Moss Agate by Akro, but some collectors call that one an Ace. The bottom left does appear to be Akro, but not in the running for Ace. Akro called it a Tri-Color Agate. Many collectors call it a Special. And the fourth is a German handmade.

The "apple drop" ones are handmade German, and I see why you like! In the first picture ,the row of large ones with the white base and the single colored ones might sell well ... some or all appear to be an uncommon "transitional". In that size, all transitionals are uncommon, but there are some which are often found in Canada which are different from ones typically found in the U.S. The smaller row below also appear to be transitionals. That's our name for certain "handgathered" marbles. "Handgathered" is when the glob of molten glass was dipped out of the heated container with a metal rod and then given a twist and cut off with glass scissors and dropped onto mechanical rollers which did the rounding. And you also have some transparent based transitionals in your lot ... those can pretty safely be assumed to be from Japan. I see quite a few more handmade German marbles. And I see at least a few American machine-mades. I may see some from Amsterdam, and I see one "figure-8" which resembles the American-made Peltier Rainbos but the ribbons are at a different angle, which sets them apart. The carpet bowls are in a category by themselves. If you're organizing for sale on ebay, I expect that sorting the bowls and handmades and transitionals out from the rest would be the best. At least in the U.S. You could try mixed lots but if they're too wide of a range, with some really some really common ones, that could weigh down the value you would otherwise have gotten for the better marbles. I see you're in the UK, and I really don't know much about the best way to sell from the UK considering shipping costs.