Steph

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Hi Jane. Nice mib! I see your dilemma. I'll vote Alley. I"m not certain but since the flames seem a little faded on the edge and the green doesn't look entirely solid, that makes me lean away from CAC. Hopefully someone else will weigh in.

That piece has a lot of history ... which I just learned some of.

That was my best guess. I think it got eaten. But surely others survived. I saw quite a few butterflies this summer.

Alley seems a good guess.

Peltier Rainbos

Bottom left at least looks like a Vitro Tiger Eye. I guess all Vitro. Maybe all Tiger Eye but someone else might see a different style.

Do we have any people here who can read Japanese? Well enough to dig into history? What kind of marble historical facts would you be able to dig up on Japanese Google? I have seen an explicit reference to very early Japanese marble making, but it was said in a mean way so it's not something I have kept in an easy to find place. I would LOVE to learn more about Japanese marble making in early 1900's, but how?

Nicely done!

I don't recognize the coloring as Akro. Possibly Master?

Ah, yes. Pelt Rainbo. I don't know of any special name it has.

Here's the title page of the volume. The ad is on p. 51. https://aa.arcade-museum.com/Automatic-Age-1929-09/

whoa Nellie!

Chevy Chase's real first name was Cornelius.

It's times like this I really miss my newspaperarchive.com access to do a quick scan for advertised marbles prices in the 1920's. I do have lots of saved ads from past marathon searches that I said I was going to organize "someday", spread over two computers and several storage devices. Maybe this should be "someday".

Ah. They may have been. In 1926, Akro presented 11 marbles for a dime as a very hard to beat offer. In 1929 their wholesale prices for 1000 marble lots ranged from .355 to 2 cents per marble, depending on style, just for the 9/16" size. Up to 3 cents a marble for a 3/4" flintie. In the 1930's, Berry Pink had a big part in bringing marble prices way down.

The 1929 crash was in late October. The "sample Lucky-Boy marble vender" is 15.00 in September 1929. But the February 1930 ad says 17.50. Wonder what "sample" meant there.

I shared it on Facebook.

Well, to me they look like of like patches and marbles with equatorial ribbons, maybe even an outright patch and ribbon pattern, and maybe bananas or other cat's eyes. Bumblebee had thought that some of them could be clearies doing special effects with the things behind them. That could be but it wouldn't explain all the seemingly anachronistic patterns. Edit: at least some seem anachronistic if they're American. Maybe they're insight into what was available from other countries in 1929.

(In 1930, the same brand machine, but crude swirls which look like they could possibly be Japanese.) (https://aa.arcade-museum.com/Automatic-Age-1930-02/Automatic-Age-1930-02-119.pdf)

Any new thoughts on which marbles might have been for sale here in 1929? They freak me out. They look like 1950's or later marbles. September 29, Automatic Age You could go to this page and try to zoom in even more: https://aa.arcade-museum.com/Automatic-Age-1929-09/Automatic-Age-1929-09-051.pdf

That top view looks like a machine-made seam. But I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be non-American. If American, I can only guess Master but the seams look a little long and flat for that.

Agree modern. But whether it's an Asian handmade or a more local contemporary, I do not know.