Steph

Marbles like those started showing up with the Atlanta marbles (the stars and the magic marker marbles). I don't know what the origin story is for your marbles -- not the real story and not the story anyone told when selling them. The consensus has been that they're relatively new. It sort of looks like enamel to me. Any chance someone put an enamel finish on the industrial ball mill balls which were used to make the Atlanta marbles?

I was wondering about Bogard on the black cat that's almost front and center because it wasn't green-tinted. (Were there green tinted Bogards? You'd know better than I.)

How about a Vacor Wicked Owl? Not a great match to the main photo highlighted here, but some of the others have some closer marbles in them. https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=68

Black cat's eyes on the right in the first photo. I have a fondness for black cats but that's personal. The ones with the green tinted base glass would be Asian and probably modern (after 1970). If you have a clear-based one (one near the center looks more clear) then some chance of American. I'm not sure what the red ones are in the first photo. The second photo is modern Asian marbles. The black and white one in the third photo looks interesting. More views would help. The fourth photo has modern marbles from the Vacor de Mexico company. I call them Galaxies. Someone else sometimes comes by with a different name but I can't remember what that is. But the main point is that they're Vacors. From the 1980s or later.

Looks like a mix of Vitro and Marble King cat's eyes.

Peltier Rainbo

It's a contemporary. It's lovely. Someone might recognize a possible maker ... I'll change the title and move it to the main chat area to look for a name.

I agree, modern. Or "contemporary", as modern handmades are often called. Might be called a latticinio.

My first thought was Vacor. But that long seam in the first photo is making me think maybe Peltier?

Wouldn't call this one a cat's eye. There are cat's eyes with different color bases. I don't know what a name for this one would be. How many yellow stripes? If three then might be Asian marble and could be in the Imperial family.

Thanks, Ron. I wasn't sure what those older blackies would look like up close. I was only going off the white color being in the center.

Yes, a kind of a clearie. Maybe Master, maybe Asian. The brown color could be accidental oxblood. Copper-based chemicals were used to make blue glass (and the standard oxblood formula was similarly copper-based.)

The one with blue, yellow, orange and brown.

The second and third photo are modern marbles from Mexico or Asia. The first photo ... I think you might have a couple of special marbles there. I _think_ those are Christensen Agates with nice patterns. But wait for a second opinion.

Ron, I was familiar with newer MK's with black in the middle and white on the end. I didn't remember them with white in the middle and black on the end.

For the last group, I'm not sure. For ID's, it's helpful to show clear views of the seams or cutlines. In your third photo, the middle marble shows a clear cutline. In your second photo, the second marble from the left is also an example of showing the cutline. I can also see a couple of cutlines featured prominently in the first picture (marble # and marble #5 show cutlines front and center). That's what I need to see for the fourth group.

The second group might be the 1957 version of the Vitro Blackie. I'm not familiar with this early style in person, but it's the best guess I have based on that color pattern.

First group: Marble King Rainbow Reds. From around 1960. In the third group, the middle one is also a Marble King Rainbow Red. The left marble could be another Rainbow Red ... can't tell for sure in that view but looks like. The right marble looks different -- because the red and the blue are not together. Need more views of that one.

Top row -- Left: this view looks like an Akro Corkscrew Middle: ? Right: Maybe Akro Middle row -- Left: I think a West Virginia Swirl -- the purple and blue is an unusual coloring Middle: Also possibly a West Virginia Swirl -- white and blue is a common coloring Right: I see a tiny bit of blue peeking around from the back -- need to see more of that Bottom row -- Not getting a feel for any of them

Not very hard to find. But not as common as an All-Red.

That's called horsehair oxblood. A "turkey" or "turkey head" is a name reserved for Christensen Agates. Your marble would be a West Virginia Swirl of some kind so it wouldn't be called a turkey even though, yeah, that's pretty much the shape the turkey head would take on a Christensen. As to which West Virginia swirl company may have made it, I think people usually say Alley or Champion.

Lady Grant? Is it a wrist watch? I relatively recently had an intro to the history of wrist watches and learned that for a long time they were mostly for women. But since this was after WWI, I think they were a male thing also by then.

Top row, left to right. 1. Might be a Master. 2. Looks like it might be a German handmade. 3. Might be an Akro or a Master. . Might be a Peltier or an Akro. Middle row: 1. Might be an Akro or a Master. 2. Too worn for me to make a guess right now. 3. Slag 4. Possibly an Akro corkscrew Bottom: 1. Possibly a West Virginia swirl 2. Maybe a Master 3. Clay 4. I think a Peltier Rainbo 5. Master More views might clear up some of the "maybe"s and "possibly"s.

That IS fun! Thanks. I love that style and love seeing the big ones.

Jose, please post your new groups in a new thread. Thanks.