Steph

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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.  

Nice detail!

Conquering army!

Tiptoeing in to mention that Fire1990 is Rick who has been here since 2005 as Fire81.  

 

Tiptoeing back out.  

A for effort.

I'll go with "Transparent Swirl".  If older then possibly Champion Agate.  If from the last 30 years, then possibly Jabo.    (Wow ... hard to believe there are Jabo Classics which are almost 30 years old already.)  

Since you have a lot of older marbles, I'm leaning Champion.

I still can't tell if I'm seeing one continuous Akro  corkscrew ribbon, or a looser swirlier structure.  

Can you tell what the white ribbon is doing?  

A flash photo or an underwater photo might reduce reflections and help see what's inside. 

4 hours ago, wvrons said:

Third is probably common MK. 

Doh.  I see that now. 

Tri-Lites! 

Hmmm ... need more views on the blue and white.  One view looks like it could turn into an Akro corkscrew.  Another view says it might stay a swirl.  Yet the colors are sort of Pelty. 

Not sure on the other either.  Vitro or Master?  (We're really only seeing one view on that, just at two different angles.)

The first two look like WV swirls.  I think Alley.  

Need more views on the third.  It might be an Akro corkscrew.

Two Masters and maybe a WV swirl.

Lots of people might have made it.  As far as I know there were lots of small operations making marbles.  We wouldn't be able to pin down a name. 

Might need another view on the first.  In that view I think it's a Peltier Rainbo.

Second is an Akro corkscrew.

You have some Peltiers and Vitros in the group shot. At least.

Sulphide appears in an English-language estate sale ad in 1954.  One of these days I need to actually read one of the history books on this subject.  Might be time for a trip to the library to check out interlibrary loan. 

Democrat and Chronicle, September 13, 1954

3 hours ago, I'llhavethat1 said:

What's the story on those?

Dave ( @LindPW )  made them. 

West Virginia swirl.  Possibly made by Alley.

Vitro Whitie

Peltier Rainbo