Steph

What? How could that be?!

I once went to a Harley factory hoping to be able to stop at the gift shop to get something for my dad. The gift shop was closed but two workers were out front. The lady told the man to give me his Harley blue jean jacket. He was gonna, and I was tempted, but I said "no, no, that's okay". Kinda wish I had accepted. Would have made an even better story.

First, remove the steelies/ball bearings from the glass marbles. These are machine-made. There are many Vitro All-Reds -- many in the "blackline" style. I see a couple of Peltier Rainbos, and a Peltier banana cat's eye. And I see a few cat's eyes from other companies. I'm pretty sure I see at least a couple of Marble Kings. Can't be 100% in these views, but I think one of more of the blue and white ones in the first photo will turn out to be patch-and-ribbon style Marble King Rainbows. It would be best to only post a few marbles per thread, and post them in an order where it's easy to point to which marble is being ID-ed. Makes sense, right? Otherwise, it's really hard to convey to each other which marble we're talking about. That said, I'll highlight this photo because this one's easy. This is a Peltier Rainbo on top and one of your Vitro blackline All-Reds on bottom.

I was just writing to a neighbor about a cat in the alley ... and I had to backspace to remove the capital A from alley. If I'm talking about going on some adventure, I often have to backspace to add in a d ......

The color and texture are making me wonder if it might be Christensen American Agate.

Hi Bo! What size are those? I wonder if they might be Master, but I can't swear they aren't akro. Very pretty.

I do think it's Peltier. I would consider it a Rainbo. Am not familiar with the name Gray Dragon. To me, "just" Peltier Rainbo.

lol ... yeah ... would need that

It's a china. Made in Germany. In the 1800's or early 1900's. I _think_ it's called a "bullseye china", but wait for a second opinion. (I should be better at the antique marble names but they don't stick for me.)

... I'm in a good mood tonight. I think I could learn to like marbles. I mean, thank you for reminding us of the simple beauty of these orbs we spend so much time pondering.

Hi. Welcome. This site might answer SOME of your questions. https://www.billes-en-tete.com/liste_billes.php It is a list of Vacor styles. (Vacor de Mexico)

You guys are going to make me dig into my collection to find examples? I know I can! Just gotta do it.

LOL ... squabble zone? So civilized to sequester yourself this way. Yeah ... Blue Lagoon really seems to be the cat's meow these days. Everyone wants to be a Blue Lagoon.

Here we go again!

real kid, real marble collection much love

It is oxblood, yes. It's called an Eggyolk Oxblood. It's in the Moss Agate family, not Popeye.

One of the subjects which brings it up is that Masters can have lashes -- and when people realize that it tends to grow their Master collections. But I thought it would be fun to see how far we could extend the examples -- to Master and beyond.

No?

In the first row, the middle one -- brown -- is a bennington. The one on the right with light blue splotches and other faint colors is probably also a bennington. It would be called a "fancy bennington". The rest are not benningtons. The ball-bearing variety of steelie has a certain charm but pretty much no value. For most collectors the important thing to do with steelies is to make sure they aren't touch marbles they could damage. Probably futile to try to clean it.

I think Jabo on the ivory glowers.

How nice. Clearies have such charming simplicity and the little bags are sharp. (and the other mibs are nice too )

Nothing jumps out at me, but they're comfortably vintage. And you have a bumblebee. ❤️ The big blue ball is intriguing.

darn ... it's a crackling fireplace