Steph

I've tried to figure out black(ish) and white. Made a big chart with all the photo examples I'd ever seen. Spent hours on it. .... I don't know.

Peltier Rainbo

Left to right Possibly Alley Modern Asian No idea Likely Alley Definitely Jabo, the glowing comes from the Fenton Burmese glass cullet they used Other than WV swirl, no specific guess

Here are some of the Vitros from the Anacortes, Washington plant, from around 1990. Just because they don't get as much camera time. I'll have to try again later to get less reflection. That thready blue on the left really needs more love.

Often with Vitros other features than the seams will be of interest, so more or other pictures may be wanted for ID. A Bull's Eye, Sweet Pea, Conqueror, Opal and Victory: The opalescent part of the Opal is nice to capture. But when in doubt, start with the seams.

Next some Vitro seams. Vitro spanned many decades. These marbles are from the 1930's through the 1960's. I may add some Anacortes pictures (circa 1990) later.

Yes, Peltier. Not aware of any other name than Rainbo.

Maybe Vitro, Marble King Akro, Peltier, Peltier Maybe

Finally for this Akro run is an example which might be Akro ... or might be Master. It can be hard to tell between Akro and Master patches. This is a larger marble. Close to 3/4", a tournament-approved "shooter" size. My first thought was Akro. It has the "eyelashes" some consider to mean Akro (though other companies did make marbles with eyelashes). But on closer inspection, to me it seemed the seams were relatively short and the second seam could even be considered V-shaped. This could point to Master. The lines get blurred, and so sometimes people attempting to ID might sit on the fence and say, "Akro or Master," and leave it at that. Imgur also decided this view needed to be rotated:

Here's one bonus Akro, which for a time was thought to be an Alley because it was among the patch styles dug at the Sistersville Alley site. But the consensus ID opinion is Akro.

Now for Akro Moonies. Solid-colored marbles aren't generally considered to be special. There are exceptions. One of the exceptions is the Akro Moonie. They went through different styles. The most easily identifiable ones have what is called "fisheyes" at the poles. Bud captured a couple of nice fisheyes on his fairly early Moonies so I'm borrowing his picture. @budwas The Moonie I was trying to photograph was a later version, more opaque and the fisheye was almost closed. Bud's version is much more desirable. Here's my barely visible fisheye after many attempts.

Still with Akro, here is a corkscrew. I would tend to call the cutline here simply a cutline. You could call it pole or seam just as well. If you have a corkscrew, then that ribbon needs to have a start and finish, so to help get the corkscrew ID confirmed, it would be good to highlight one or both of those spots. For some reason, my photo host Imgur decided to rotate this picture 90 degrees.

Next up is Akro. Most of Akros cutlines will be called seams. For the famous Akro moonie with the fisheye, we may speak of the cutline as a pole. Left to right, the top has two Moss Agates, a Royal, and a Tri-Color Agate. The bottom has a sparkler, a Tri-Color Agate with oxblood, and two more Royals.

#1, 2, 3 = Peltier Rainbo #4 = Modern Marble King? #5 = ? #6 = first thought Alley, second thought Akro cork, but half the views show odd non-corky bits of yellow popping up, so going with Alley for now.

Let's see a shot from the poles on the green cats . I"m trying to decide between them being Japanese and American.

The red one is a Vitro hybrid cat's eye. Often "hybrid" means an accidental mixing of colors. With Vitro the addition of extra colors to cat's eye vanes was surely intentional, yet we still call it "hybrid".

thank you both ... still working Currently working on Akros ... am trying to capture the fisheye on a moonie ... may give up.

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I'd be tempted to start higher. Maybe put it at $9 on one of those month-long fixed price listings, and maybe someone would pick it up when they bought another of your listings. Well, good luck. Make sure you don't take a hit on shipping if you put it lower.

I locked the seam tutorial thread so that I could add pictures and notes at my own pace. But if you have questions, ideas, corrections, or anything, feel free to add them here or send me a message. I thought about adding the collector's names for some more of the Peltiers other than the Bloody Mary, but I couldn't remember them all so I moved on.

This morning we have Marble Kings. We call their cutlines "seams". The two marbles on the right end are modern. The top left is a Rainbow Red. The bottom is called "blended". The four in the middle are Rainbows -- they are said to have a "patch and ribbon" pattern, which is a prime sign that you are looking at a Marble King. The brown and yellow one is called a Bumble Bee. The light blue with red ribbons is called a Robin. The white-based Rainbow with the three different colored ribbons is called a ...wait for it .... Tri-Color Rainbow. Note the 'w' at the end of the Rainbow name with Marble Kings, while we leave off the 'w' with Peltier Rainbos.

Thank you for putting your 2 cents in. I really appreciate it. And I'm still just guessing.

That is a nice size.

Another way to cut down reflections and get to the heart of transparent marbles is to take a picture of the marbles underwater. At least that's the advice we sometimes give, and it can have dramatic results with old German handmades with cloudy surfaces. Here are some Peltiers. One thing I accidentally illustrated here is that different color settings may be needed for bright yellow marbles than are needed for not-so-bright marbles. And I needed to brush the bubbles off the surface of the marbles. This will do until I get a better sample photo. Transparent Peltiers under water:

I think I'm finally seeing at least one cutline. I'm going go bold and give a solid answer of Peltier Rainbo.