Steph

Sweet. If you can't just step back and admire sometimes, what is the point?

Alley at 3. Jabo at 12. Maybe Marble King or Peltier at 6. Maybe more pictures featuring the marble at 9?

Jabo?

Adding: That's probably an okay Master color combo, so I am leaning Master on #1 and #3 in your group.

I think that's an Akro Sparkler on the right. Nice marble. The other three marbles are Akros Royals or Master Comets. Not always possible to decide, but to help pin it down, it's good to see the cutlines head-on. You're in the ballpark. I'm leaning Akro on #2 and Master on #3, with #1 looking like Master seams but I need to remind myself of Master color combos since that combo makes me think of Akro. Here's an example I just posted in another thread of showing the seams head-on. I'm about to get started on a seam tutorial, mainly just to show people how to find them but also maybe coming with some ID's. Off to do that now.

I'll go with WV Swirl in general. Possibly Alley in particular.

I agree with you Jabo call at least on most of those. You might find some stand out and want a new ID later, but I think you made a good sort.

(Mine in that photo are probably mostly Akros. The top left is probably a Master.)

One day I really must replace the tutorial on seams and cutlines which I accidentally deleted. For ID purposes, I find the most useful views of patches and rainbow/rainbo-style marbles to be the seams. I'm going to start pulling up different marble types from my basement and start working on that new tutorial today. In the meantime, here is an example of marbles posed to show off one of their seams. Such marbles usually have another seam on the opposite side, which can also be useful to show. Some marbles have a little scoop seam on one end and a V-shaped seam on the other end, for example, and that is a big clue. I might need to retake the picture of the top left one here, I might want to pose that so it will look more like a V-seam. I need to look at it more closely. Will do that as I try to bring up nice representatives of marbles with this style of cutlines.

I think not enough detail in the marbles themselves to pin them down to a maker. The red one seems to be a swirl of some kind. . The blue could maybe be Master, but ???

Yes, I'd go with WV swirls on the last four groups. I"m not seeing a Pelt Rainbo structure on most if any of the top two groups. I'm seeing solid patches. Is it one patch per marble? Or one patch on either end? If one patch per marble, then might possibly be Akro, or Master. If two patches of the same color, one on either end, then maybe Marble King.

#3 and #4 are Akro or Master, circa 1930's. Possibly Akro on #3 and Master on #4. (People who worked at Akro broke off and founded Master.) #5 could be a handgathered slag from earlier in the 1900's, possibly one which spent time in water, giving it a matte finish. Is #2 in the 9/16" range, as opposed to the 5/8" range or larger? If so then maybe a "game marble". Hard to tell with solid color marbles. Need more views on #1. More views on all could be helpful, but especially #1.

The top is a combination which _could_ be a 1940's Vitro Conqueror. But there is a similar Japanese marble from around the 1960's, I think, and I have a feeling yours if the Japanese one. It's sometimes called a Wales style marble, because of the Wales brand found on some of the packages containing that type. Need more views on the aqua one. The black (or purple) and white could be Marble King, but ?

I think Japanese transitional on #9. West Virginia swirl on #1, 6, 12. Probably others. For instance, probably #11 though it's not as swirly. #2 might be a somewhat more modern marble from Asia. Or I suppose it could be a vintage Master.

I agree with Stephen on #2. It's from the 1930's. #3 is Master. I'd estimate 1940's, but maybe a little earlier or later. The colors on #10 look Peltier, and at least one view looks Peltier, but one view looks like the ribbons went very wild, so I'm not sure. You have several West Virginia swirls in there. #7 is probably one of the WV swirls ... but I at least briefly wondered if it might be Christensen Agate. As white as it is, if it's not Christensen Agate, I might guess Ravenswood. (Ravenswood is in the West Virginia swirl family. There were many swirl makers in West Virginia. Christensen Agate is from Ohio.) #1 does not look like a swirl. It has a long seam like one might see on a Marble King or Vitro.

I would say Vacor for 1, 2, 3, 5, 7. (I think I'm seeing iridescence on #3, and I suspect it will turn out to be a Vacor Wavebreaker.) Possibly Asian for #6. No guess on #4.

This page can help you recognize Vacor styles. https://www.billes-en-tete.com/liste_billes.php

Combining the pictures into a collage made them too small to see detail on. Maybe your collage started out larger? The forum software resizes large photos. Don't worry. You'll work out the kinks.

The first guess that most would give on the first marble is Jabo. Which would mean made after 1990. The peewee is interesting. With the irregular shape of the darker blue spot, I don't have a guess for it.

Okay, at that size, I"m thinking if older than it would be a slag, and if made after 1990, then it would be a Jabo.

This could be an amber slag, from the 1920's or so. More views could help nail it down. But if it is older, then I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

Look forward to seeing your collection.

way cool

Greetings!

Welcome back to the races. That hotwheels finish line gadget is cool. They've come a long way since my brother's hotwheels set in 1970.