Steph

Vacor Serpent -- has made many a person hope for it to be Peltier https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=51

Oooh, that's a keeper. Fascinating. A flat thing in the middle of looping vanes? I'd love to see how that is attached. I _guess_ it's a cat's eye. I _guess_ it's a Vitro. But ????

Forever!

Pepperoni, pineapple and horseradish pizza. Best food risk I've taken in a long time. Yum.

Oven brick is fun.

One vote for Vacor Rooster https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=49

1930's

Do you have a meat tenderizer hammer? The kind with lots of sharp points. I want to bash one with that! I'm still thinking ball mill ball, because of the weight, but I would want to keep trying to chip off that outer layer.

I like your weight comparison. That's interesting stuff.

Akro corkscrew 1930's.

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.