Steph

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!)

My first thought was Akro. But if someone else thinks Vitro, I would not argue.

Hi there. Welcome. A 2nd picture might help with this one. The colors say Vitro to me. Right now I don't recognize the pattern right with those colors though.

I'll get some pix. The little Tower box contains the shedded shell of a praying mantis ... and a baby mantis. Don't ask!

I have a cat with some pretty debris, which I could never photograph ... but I haven't tried it since I got my current camera .... time to dig it out again.

And with that impetus, I finally started my dedicated Mike Barton box. (It's about time.) Now to gather up all of my Barton's beauties.

I was going to post this in my looooong Jabo thread, but I decided to give it a thread of its own. This month's contender for "cutest thing ever besides kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, pets and little bitty neverbugs". A little wooden crate handmade by Mr. Mike Barton to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Peltier Mansion run at Jabo.

oh that green is beautiful

Very close to the center? That looks like a place where there's a depression in the white glass and so there was more room for green glass so the color seems more concentrated. I don't see a chunk.

I took a bazillion pictures of this cat's eye because at every angle it looked like a different marble . Ordinary six-vane arrangement but a central gap and strange striping made it wild.

Not seeing what you might mean for aventurine.

This listing says one marble of the seller's choice. http://www.landofmarbles.com/hom018.html But the seller is Peter Caparalli, aka Pete, a marble friend, not just some coldhearted businessman. And if you write him, I bet he would make sure to get you the best assortment he could. Looks like one color of glow, but a variety of designs.

The B-roll? Is that the marble in 2nd place? Very nice production. I nudged my facebook peeps again hoping for more subscribers. See you next time.

Oy. I think WV Swirl. I think in the middle (and top) picture, we see the end of the ribbon on the right. And on the left the part which looks like two ribbons coming into a seam is them taking a dive right there and then the glass suturing itself back together as it went down the rollers.

I read about the categories in Bob Block's Price Guide. Maybe he came up with the numbers. I don't know. The numbers aren't in common use. For Type I and Type II NLR's, those are common patterns, so we just say NLR and don't give the pattern much thought. I think the Type IV is what we call a Broken Cork, which is more remarkable. But we call it a Broken Cork ... so it doesn't need a number. The Type III is an unusual pattern, but it never got a name that I know of, so its name became Type III. (p.s. Wanna see a nice display of broken cork ribbons? ... check this out: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/6786-mostly-pix-peltier/?do=findComment&comment=189627)