Steph

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!)

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.