Steph

I don't think I would bother with cleaning. I'd keep them away from glass marbles, in a category of their own. With the X that ups the chance of them having been made as marbles. Some ordinary (non-x) steelies were sold as marbles. But you can't be sure about any of it unless it came in some real kid's collection (or is still in the packaging).

Two West Virginia Swirls on the left, followed by a Marble King Rainbow in the middle, then two Peltiers. The far right Peltier is a Rainbo, the style of marble which started being made in the mid-30's and continued through the 60's. The green and white Peltier (2nd from right), looks a little earlier. I think it's from the National Line Rainbo era, which went from the late 20's through the early 30's. Possibly from the later end of the NLR era.

p.s. welcome to the forum

Hmmmm. I was hoping I might see something I would clearly recognize as a pontil (which would indicate it was handmade). But no, my best guess is that it is an error marble. A machine-made marble which got twisted on a piece of machinery and then was a little too cool to get completely rounded as it went down the rollers.

Hi ... I'm not sure ... but seems likely that's a cold roll of some sort. What does the opposite end look like?

Could all be Asian. That tan color is found on Imperials. A closer view of the cutlines could decide on the tan. Certainly all modern.

Well, of course it is!

My first thought was ???? what ???? Then I quickly considered Vitro and Jabo. But just as quickly moved on to Akro. That's where I'm sticking for now. Akro.

(yes, a nice bag to have )

That's an interesting question. I'm going to guess the answer to the Clarksburg address on the Master Glass label has something to do with where offices were. I say with some confidence that the cat's eye bags weren't introduced until the 1950's.

I really like that Alley.

Any chance of it being a modern marble? A Jabo or DAS?

The texture on the yellow tells me Imperial.

Yes to "swirl". I don't know which company. Will have to leave that for others.

Hi. I was thinking of you yesterday. I don't think Vitro would ever have occurred to me on the left. Alley or Akro on that one? On the right ... I don't have guess.

Hi. Those were made by Jabo. While I do know a champion marble player who loves to play with Jabos, the Jabo Classics (which these are) were more of a side run by a company which specialized in industrial marbles. It wasn't a mass playing marble operation so they didn't worry so much about the marbles being perfectly round.

Good bet those are plastic. The rest make a nice vintage group.

Nice bump. Does that odd skin have a name?

Greetings! WV is a pretty good place to be indeed!

Welcome!

Thanks, Ron!

It's a West Virginia swirl, from the 1940's or thereabouts, I think. But which WV company? @wvrons .... jmglenn has some browns .....

Not seeing enough of the internal structure to judge.

This is a game marble. Considered "solid color" thought it might have some variations in shade. It is almost impossible to ID who made a game marble unless you have the actual package in which it was originally sold. Game marbles was a big industry which many manufacturers took part in.