Steph

I couldn't remember my delicious hamburger recipe. But then I remembered that I had posted about it in this thread, and posted about the various changes I made over time. It was the above ingredients, plus raisins and cilantro. All ingredients are waiting for me in the kitchen. Gonna be good eating tonight.

Sweet! Keeper is right!

I guess that's good. Uranium base could have complicated my already wobby guess!

I'm not solid on my answer so I wouldn't feel comfortable trying to pin down decade. But I would guess vintage. P.s. maybe it really is Peltier. So much for Vitro being my final answer, huh? The large white patch is why I'm thinking Vitro. But sometimes Pelt "ribbons" look like patches. Does the baseglass light up under blacklight? It does look older to me.

First thought was Peltier from the colors. But I'm going with Vitro. Final answer.

Tried to get a feel for price on ebay. For current listings seemed ballpark. For sold listings it seemed like it might be on the high side. Are they open for negotiation?

Waves at PROrtiz212 (and Jose). LOLs at Brad.

Oy. Really messed up Akro? (This answer based on 3rd view structure and on texture of the white.)

Interesting about the fire. Still, I would definitely have the 2nd and 3rd with Akros. (2nd and 3rd marble as far as the individual photos go.) The one with lavender, my first thought was Asian, but it does seem to go nicely with the others so I would keep it with Akro for now.

This is how Pete over at Land of Marbles describes them: http://www.landofmarbles.com/fibmibs.html

Those are fiber optic marbles. I have a set just like it. P.s. hello and welcome

Popeye on the blue and yellow akro. On the purple and yellow because of the colors I immediately wanted it to be a Popeye, but then I see it doesn't cork. Maybe it's a true Popeye patch -- one which was actually meant to be a Popeye cork but the spinner cup didn't spin.

That Akro could be a Popeye. The white is rather bright in the photo so I''m not sure if I'm seeing the clear and filaments that people want to see for a Popeye.

2nd from right is an Akro. All go Alley or Ravenswood on the rest.

I'll guess Alley on all.

Maybe Ravenswood on the bottom left. The tan base often says Ravenswood, but I think still sometimes you get an Alley ID out of them, so ? The other two on the bottom are Akros. The crisp red on the top middle makes me wonder about Christensen. I think Alley on the top left. Alley or Ravenswood on the top right.

Plenty of room under the tables yet!

Blackline All-Reds were introduced in 1959. I don't think the blackline style lasted long. So, let's round it to 1960.

1. For sure Alley 2. Likely Jabo 3. Alley seems a good guess to me.

Yes, Vitro. Of course. Sorry. That is who make the all-reds.

Have not seen those before. Am trying to remember the name of the company which put licensed logos on marbles. Then I think they discontinued that because they couldn't compete with the unlicensed logo marbles which were coming from outside the U.S. Oh, yes, that was "Lucky Dog". It's possible they might still do some kind of personalization of marbles ... but they're not the ones on your machine.

Ugh, I hoped I would get them replaced before anyone noticed. Thank you for the reminder. I'm slowly shifting my thousands of photos from Photobucket to a different host. I'll make a big note to myself to fix this thread this week.

twisted blackline all-red.

Oh, that says Vitro -- I misread and thought it said Akro -- same post applies after name change. But that's interesting backstory. I wonder about the "former employee" part, because by now former employees must be getting really old. It's believable that a marble company might have a gumball machine with marbles in it -- but I haven't heard of it before. I'm intrigued yet still skeptical.