Steph

Those are cat's eyes. Those are machinemade. The marks you might be thinking of as "pontils" are seams. Places where mechanical shears cut the hot glass off.

Hi. I think you have an Akro corkscrew there. Other views might change my mind but that's what I'm going with for now. People might come up with photography suggestions along the way. But for now those pictures look clear enough. They look sort of like the same angle though. Not what I'd think of as the "top" or "bottom" of the marble. If that's a cork, then the white ribbon starts at the "top" and wraps its way around to the "bottom". Is that what you're seeing on your end?

Not a Cub Scout or Angel. The cub scout and angel would be a little older than your marble. Here's an old Marblealan picture I have of a Cub Scout. It's a National Line Rainbo whereas yours is a later Rainbo. In addition to a somewhat different structure from the Rainbo, it has an opaque blue base. The blue angel would have both yellow and blue ribbons on a custard-colored base. See if this link works. I can't post the picture straight in: https://marbleconnection.com/gallery/image/4854-the-angels/

Hi! Welcome. And you're right. A Peltier Rainbo.

1930 give or take for both the blue galaxies and the multicolor swirls.

mmmm ... The middle is a Vitro Agate. A "blackline All-Red". First thought on the right is "West Virginia Swirl". More views might make it seem more slag-like. I think you have a Vitro Blue Devil on the left. Which is a keeper.

Hi Wes. For some reason I"m not seeing the pictures.

That's a good possibility. It's a handgathered slag. More than one company did handgathering so in theory it could be someone else but MFC is a strong possibility.

Ooh. I think Master.

Yes, please. Makes it easier to keep straight which marbles we're talking about.

Here's @JerryG's picture of some multicolor rainbos ... AKA multicolor swirls. Typically they have three colors of ribbons in a transparent base.

Hi. Welcome. That is a Peltier Multicolor Rainbo. A Blue Galaxy looks like this: (That's actually a polymer clay lookalike, made by Carl Fisher, but it's a really really good lookalike.)

Some boxes use different print for "National Line" and "Rainbo," setting them apart. I tried to find a quick example but got the Sunsets instead of the Rainbos. If you look at the side of the box instead of the top you see something closer to the order you're asking about. https://marbleconnection.com/topic/20910-national-line-rainbos-vs-sunsets-1931/

Love it. Your son really has a way with words. Great poise and memory for any age, but especially so young. Someone put a down thumb on it. Who would do such at thing? How can people be that way?

One degree Fahrenheit

I recognize that! That's one of the moons of Jupiter!

To me the texture of the white does look modern and/or foreign. However, I don't recognize it as a Vacor style, so maybe one of the slag guys will still claim it as one of theirs.

Hello. Welcome . That's a lot of marbles for one thread. Try starting a thread for each one of those groups. They appear to mostly be modern ... mostly Vacor de Mexico. However, there's at least one older marble in there. (2nd picture, third marble down, green and red with a thin brown stripe. This one is a 1950's Vitro All-Red. Also called a blackline all-red because of that brown stripe.)

Marbles as insulators? That might be new info for me .... Neat article. I smiled when I saw how Art Fisher had designed marble rollers. It's funny how many people took or were given credit for inventing key elements of the marble making process. Pretty sure Berry Pink also took or was given that credit. Akro too.

Ray ... looks like: In room selling/trading begins Jan. 30th and ends Feb. 1st, with the show on Feb. 2. http://buckeyemarble.com/february.htm

Just for fun ... post some colors ... any color ... one color ... multicolor ... marbles or not .... give us an eyeful. Sunset pink is my favorite color but turquoise/cyan is a close second.

The state of Michigan is composed of two peninsulas. The Upper Peninsula is above Wisconsin ... and is a lot bigger than I realized. The lower part ... I didn't realize that was also a peninsula, but sure enough that "piece of land" is almost surrounded by water -- by Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and even some of Lake Erie, and Lake St. Clair.

Nice find! Thanks for sharing. And thanks for the size estimate. I'm so used to seeing nice big pictures that I forget how cute and little the boxes must look in hand. Japanese glassworkers never imagined that almost 100 years later people around the world would enjoy their little toys so much.