Steph

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to be true, so I'll need to read it another time or two to sort the new-to-me facts out from the statements which are outdated.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

Welcome!

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

Ugh. Interesting pair. I want them to be Master. I can't at this time rule out Asian. But I really want them to be Master. Size?

Peltier Rainbo. Later than the Peerless Patches. This one sort of looks like a single patch, but it's more than one ribbon smushed together.

Mike, are you around? @mmuehlba? Marian, Mike has done impressing things with a water soluble polymer coating ... https://marbleconnection.com/topic/19143-open-core-latticno-would-you-polish-it/?tab=comments#comment-165686

Yes, another Peltier Rainbo. If that base glass is green, then some would call it a 7-Up.

Peltier Rainbo

Very likely wear from water. For some reason German handmade names just don't stick with me, but I found this on p. 58 of the 4th edition of Paul Baumann's book, Collecting Antique Marbles.

There are many people who fundamentally oppose restoration. They worry about restored marbles being sold as original condition. But, if it's your marble, for your enjoyment, then you get to do what you want with it. If it's a marble with color at the surface, then repairs could completely change the look of the marble. For a sulphide that wouldn't be such a problem. I don't know what costs are associated with restoration because I don't know anyone who's still doing it. The people I know who did it have passed away or are in poor health. So, if you find someone who can do it, then issues could be the cost of the repair versus how much it would cost just to purchase a better example of the marble. For relatively common marbles, the cost probably wouldn't be worth it. For more rare marbles, you might want to consider the pre-repair monetary value versus the post-repair value. If it's a completely trashed marble than repairing probably wouldn't lower value, but if it's a near mint rare marble, then it could be much more valuable in the original condition than it would be restored. How was that for a bunch of vague statements? Did any of it help?

wow

I wondered about that one also. Not at all sure. Could be older.

Left to right #1. Maybe Jabo #2. That bright white is making me think maybe Vacor Rooster #3. I think that's a Jabo. #4. ?

Wow, the articles are a treasure. And the bag is great also. The marbles however are not so old. When Japanese cat's eyes were introduced in America around 1950, they had very clear, untinted base glass and had four vanes made with a single color. Later cat's eyes had six-vanes or three vanes, and started to have a coke bottle green base glass. So those cat's eyes are later. The white based marbles with the three ribbons are also later. Both these marbles and cat's eyes like that are still being made today. So somehow newer marbles got joined with an older bag. The clearies would also be very difficult to date, having been made by many companies over the years. However, they COULD be from the 1940's. They were being made then (and are still being made today).

Vitro Conquerors.

Master on right. Not sure on left. Vitro? Akro? Another Master?

earlyish master