Steph

Very pretty. Would guess Marble King or later Vitro. Don't know.

Old, I think. Something from Mr. Leighton, I think. Maybe Navarre.

Thanks, Ron.

Transparent swirls are tougher than ordinary WV Swirls.

The texture is making me lean vintage Asian. But ?

Not seeing Vacor. Not ruling out non-U.S. And have seen some interesting early Vacors recently. (1960s) But it's not a Vacor I recognize. And that seam in the last picture looks vintage to me. But who? Only the one seam?

Yikes. That would also be my guess for now. That's unusual.

Huh. Looks like a WV Swirl to me. Maybe Champion?

Possibly a Vitro Cosmic Rainbow.

You mean glow under blacklight. That glower looks like a Marble King.

That's where I sell, when I do. A little challenging to learn the way around ebay as a seller.

Are you thinking that's oxblood? The lighting is stopping me from telling.

I think it's contemporary. That doesn't mean non-valuable.

Gotta love the colors they've been able to pack into these contract runs.

@Jamiebull13, I'm not able to post comments on pictures in the gallery. So hopefully you'll see this comment here. You wrote, "Is this a rare vintage piece? I found it in central Arkansas while hunting for arrowheads. Any info would be much appreciated." The answer is no, not rare. Grooves like that are called "cold rolls". That's when the molten glass glob which turns into a marble wasn't quite hot enough when it came out of the furnace. So it wasn't about to smooth out completely as it went down the rollers. Side note: @bumblebee, I tried to link Jamie's picture into this thread, but as has happened before, when I tried to link to an image in the gallery I couldn't post the thread at all. I had to start a new thread and retype the text without the link to the gallery before this would go through.

I was sent this small periodical, Glass Collector's Digest, from "December/January 1990". It has an article about Akro corkscrews inside. It was written by the authors of Greenberg's Guide to Marbles, a pioneering volume in the history of marbles. It's interesting to me because I like seeing how marble names change, and because of how our understanding of the history has changed in the decades since 1990. I think I learned some new things, but some of the things in the article are now known not to be true, so I'll need to read it another time or two to sort the new-to-me facts out from the statements which are outdated. What struck my fancy first was that what we call "corkscrews", the authors called "spirals". They did note that some people call them "corkscrews". They said "spiral" is what the Akro workers called them. And they said the company name was "Ace". (So the authors called ALL corkscrews "spirals", and they said the company called them all "aces". To us now, "aces" and "spirals" are just two of the many different style names we know Akro to have used. So that's one glimpse of how our understanding has evolved.) The first pages. Not posting the whole article, to try to honor fair use and copyright.

I like them. Here are some of my vintage Marble Kings.

P.s. the last group of marbles at that link ... where they're sitting on plastic stands on a gray surface ... those are actually mine.

The Sunset is my favorite Vacor. Much variety to it. Almost all pretty.

nifty

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I think Vacor Sunset. https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=123&lang=en