Steph

Pelt or CAC would be my choices. Very pretty.

Didn't find my bumblebee pic so here are some feline optical orbs

The right is goldstone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_(glass) I'm not familiar with the left. What all colors are involved? White swirl in blue base? (That's all I see in the photo.) If it also has a blue ribbon in the blue base, then check out the Vacor Hellas. https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=260

One side of #3 looks like modern Marble King. Does that happen to have two green patches (or at least slivers), or just the one? Vitro on #9. Pretty sure that's what they call a "Biscuit and Red Eye Gravy". How's that for a marble name?

omg ... the blue ox flower .... Okay, a lot more ... but I was going to wait and hold my comments until the end ... until I saw the blue ox ... and then I just couldn't help typing. Cool to see Ron and Griff and Steve. And the one marble-making apprentice was making it real. People like Eddie Seese make it look easy. That apprentice brought it back down to earth.

There was a time when people (maybe MarbleAlan) called the black, red, and white one an Indian Blanket. But you don't often see people using that name. Akro's name for it was Tri-Color Agate. Many collectors call it a Special. Special is probably the most recognized name for it.

Be careful with that Tom Sawyer bag. At least until someone comes by and says, "Oh I have a dozen of them" and proves me wrong that it's a hard bag to come by.

This big one is my newest.

Ha. I thought there was only one picture. Then I realized we could scroll down. The Tom Sawyer bag is one I've seen discussed once or twice in a decade.

Alley Tater Bugs

omg ... I hadn't seen that one. How sad.

Keeperthread! lol ... that's what I type in a thread when I want to be able to search for it later so that I can put it in the archives.

I would agree.

"Common" would indicate clay. Various American companies made clays. I don't know if I've seen a list compiled. Maybe someone else can help with that ... or maybe I can do a little digging and get or make one. So ... who in 1898 would have been making clays ... the question for the day. As to the German glass ones, there some are some known company names but it was a cottage industry also, so lots and lots of unincorporated people could be responsible for the latticinios and onionskins we love. Here ya go ... I remembered the name Sam Dyke ... in 1898 it could have been one of his companies making the common clays. In particular, it could have been The American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company of Akron, Ohio. http://www.americantoymarbles.com/akronhist.htm

Interesting. I wasn't familiar with a Pal Bottling promo. I look online and see some bags with four or five marbles. And the marbles in those bags are Alleys from the 1940's. I post one below. The label style is appropriate for marbles which would have been made in the 1940's and distributed in the 1940's or early 1950's. The marbles you are showing do look like Jabos and the label looks close to the labels on the packages with clearly vintage marbles ... but it has a distinct difference. I strongly suspect reproduction on the bag you show. Or maybe a label which Champion was using but then it was sold as surplus and filled with modern marbles. That happened a lot in the 1990's, I believe.

Did you test them with a magnet?

warped rubber-like balls? what size? are they heavy?

Pretty! A nice way to start the week.

Glad you bumped this. I missed it the first time around. A marble could be more than a penny. This is a Butler Bros. ad from 1898. I don't know if it's wholesale or retail. The print is small and faint but starting down with the spangles, it looks like the per marble price starts to be 2 cents or more. Last I hear, the spangles are what we call onionskins.

Thank you for letting us know. Warm thoughts for his family and friends.

*checks to see how I did* I did good! Except I missed the Jabo.

Alley on the bottom. Handmade on the top, but I wouldn't know how to guess by whom. Any identifying marks on that one? In the upper row of four, #2 is a Peltier Rainbo. Maybe Jabo on left and right? If that left one is in the 5/8" range then that's a rather busy pattern for a Jabo that small if it is a classic, but I don't have any other guess. #3 has some nice bright white, which makes me think it's vintage but no guess for maker. On the bottom row of four, maybe Vitro Whitie on #2. Maybe a Pelt patch on the right. I kept trying to say Vitro but my mind couldn't settle on that, and then it occurred to me that it had a good chance of being Pelt.