Steph

Jabo is still running as far as I know. I don't think Peltier is. (They hadn't made marbles in awhile but they were still producing other glass. I think they're gone now.) Dave McCullough was supervising the contract runs at Jabo 10 years ago but now he has his own operation: Dave's Appalachian Swirls. Here's how Mike described the Peltier Mansion story over on facebook. "Ten years ago, some of my glass freak friends and I went to Jabo Glass Company in Reno, Ohio, to make marbles. Boyce Lundstrom was one of the owners of Peltier Glass Company and the Peltier mansion next to the factory. James Armstrong was the former manager of Peltier, and his family owned the factory before Boyce. John Triggs was the owner of Youghiogheny Glass Company. I had been a stained glass artist for 35 years. We all hung out at the mansion, so we called ourselves the Peltier Mansion Group for this endeavor. John made most of the glass for our marble run to Boyce's specifications. I was in charge of adding all the side colors to the three crucibles above the furnace throughout our two day run. James brought a good attitude, enthusiasm, and plenty of beer. Over the last few weeks, I made some little boxes to commemorate the tenth anniversary of our experience."

I think probably lighter. I don't capture the shade right here, but since it looks like it may be awhile before I reunite these with their brothers, here's a shot of the ones already in the box. Including a Monarch, a Folded Rainbow and a Copperhead Nottmiller Exotic.

Japanese marble. It's called a Wales style sometimes, because Wales is one of the brand names it was distributed under. The small game marbles with single colors and the same style are called Japanese Pincers (or Pinchers) I'll estimate 1960's ... but that's a rough guess.

My first, second and third guess would be Vitro.

Sure thing. p.s. It might not be a modern Marble King. It _could_ be an older patch and ribbon style. My first thought was the two brown ribbons near one end were meant to have come together into a single patch in the modern way. But on second thought maybe they actually were meant to form a circle around the white patch on the end. If so, then older style. (Things can get sort of strange in the larger sizes.) I can't remember right now if black (brown) and white was a vintage Rainbow combination. Hopefully someone else will give input here.

When I saw the preview of your post, I thought we might have a double ingot. With those there is a seam all the way around the marble. Here, I think you're looking at modern Marble King. The long seam-like appearance all the way around shows the symmetric way in which the color is added to these marbles. What often looks like one patch on the end is two streams of the same color joining together. So, it's a seam on top and bottom, and two streams of color joining on the sides.

Thanks, guys.

*mindblown*

I think onion skin .... but I don't know these types well. If you add something like "Josephs coat or onion" to your thread title, it could catch the eyes of people who do know. I'll go make that title change now ....

Fun what we can see in different lights. Are all those diagonal strips in the bottom half indicative of facets, or are we mainly looking at the sudden change in the top half?

Did I really not even mention foreign as a 2nd guess? I was thinking Master or foreign.

Bodacious Bogard

I saw it! I saw it!

I think I see it.

Haha! Thanks to google, I get that.

Here is the classic picture of the Peltier Citrus family that we keep pulling up from past posts as needed. Photo by Smitty? Al will know for sure.

Jelle has done a glow in the dark run before, so I know that's not the only source. I wonder if he'd get a notification if I tagged him. @YellowMarble

mineral sphere

I agree it's a cat's eye. That shade of blue and V-shaped cutlines could mean Master. Could have playwear. Could have spent a lot of time underwater.

I'm solidifying my vote of Jabo on #1. (Edit: but I'm already wobbling again. someone else might still recognize it as an older swirl. Wait for another opinion.) I don't remember hearing of a Vitro Unique. For sure put that one in your Conqueror pile. Seams are a big help in identifying maker. However, it's not straightforward. Long seams could point to Akro, Vitro, Marble King. Short seams could point to Master or Foreign. There's crossover. If the marbles have ribbons to go with the seams, how the ribbons come together at the seams is a big help in making ID's. And base glass and other glass colors get taken into consideration. More about Uniques -- it's a misunderstood name. I think it was thought to be an early Akro patch. But then more research has shown that it may have been a later Akro name, for a marble which was known by another name earlier. And it may have crossed over and become a Master name. But the type of marble which belongs to it -- highly in doubt. Unique boxes may have been filled with different types of marbles. But I only remember Akro and Master being associated with it. Basically, Unique is not a name which I have ever given to a marble when identifying it. There always seems to be another name which more readily applies, or there seems to be doubt about whether the marble has a name at all. Unique pretty much never comes into it, unless you're looking at a box specially labelled Unique, and then it's "Wow -- look at the surprising marbles in that box."

The top marble might be a Jabo , made after 1990. Other pictures could change my mind, but I think that's probably it. The 2nd marble is a Vitro Conqueror, from the 1940's.

I'll go with Vitro All-Red, though it has a somewhat unusual pattern.

(marbles are more complicated than most people would think!)