Steph

Patches yes. Nice seam captures on 4 of the 5 so you're off to a great start (not sure I'm seeing both seams on the center marble). Vitro Conqueror on the right, a 1940's marble. Probably some other Vitro Conquerors (I'm thinking #2 and #4) but the pictures seem overexposed somehow and I'm not sure. Combining all four views into a collage gives us less opportunity to blow the images up for detail.

Pelt and Pelt and ... the color sure looks Peltish but I'm having trouble making sense of the ribbon structure so I'm not sure.

My vote: Akro, Vacor, Alley My second choice for the first one would actually be Peltier but I'm sticking with Akro for now.

Oooooh. Interesting. I haven't seen that color in that style. Can't think of what else it would be. But it's new to me so ???

Yes, rootbeer floats are larger. And between Akro and Master I am leaning Master.

I think I can safely say no. However, I will ask the size. I'm getting more of an Akro or Master feel here than a Peltier banana boulder kind of feel.

Here's to a gentle holiday for us all.

So far I'm not seeing the possibility of handgathering. I _think_ I'm seeing two v-shaped cutlines ... leading to the thoughts of it being Master. I'm curious about the Mexican possibilities though. I have been hearing that there were some gorgeous Master-like marbles coming out of Mexico in the 50's and 60's.

*tossing Rick a bone* I'll backtrack and dither here. "Leaning Master, but with the bright green I am still seeing foreign possibilities"

Another vote for Master

@Melissa, this one is Tribute to Friendship

Yes, two cat's eyes there.

I paid $52 for mine in June on eBay.

Akro made bricks, right? I'm not sure why I have this niggling doubt about that, but I do. I know Akro sold MFC bricks. And I know that Akro procured MFC's recipe for oxblood. (Procured it in an unethical manner.) But for some reason doubt has slipped into my head about whether they used MFC's recipe to make bricks. If they did indeed make bricks, then are we able to tell the difference between an MFC brick and an Akro brick?

Pretty sure contract run

There are two cat's eyes in the bottom photo. More in the larger group photo.

It's a Marble King. Might have a fancy name. I don't know it though.

I'm seeing Marble King here.

But here I'm seeing MCS, so if that was happening in the first marble -- three colors of ribbons -- then yeah, MCS.

For me the left in that first photo looked totally Rainbo. Not MCS. The marble I was questioning was the 2nd marble in the line-up. For some reason I was seeing it as possibly a West Virginia swirl.

This is so weird. My husband is home now so I asked him how he got the cans open. But he is unable to remember how he got the marbles out. Hammer? Hacksaw? Those are the two possibilities he came up with. How could he do something so physical and not remember it? It's been several marbles over the past few years. How can he not know which tool he used to wrestle the marble out? Too weird.

Hello. Welcome. I'm sure one of our West Virginia swirl gurus will be by soon to help.

Now that my husband realizes that spray cans can have marbles, he has procured me a small collection. I have never seen or asked how he gets the can opened.

I see a 1960's Japanese marble. Some 1960-ish Marble Kings. Possibly some West Virginia swirls (which are from 1930's through at least the 1950's.) I think a Vitro cat's eye, from 1960's or later. Maybe another Vitro from an earlier era. And some newer Asian marbles.

Welcome. We'll do our best.