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Here's an old pic which I thought of as my tulips. The "leaves" wrapped around the back on the second one.

Not a citrus. It's a Rainbo. Here's a famous picture of the Citrus family. (I believe the photo is Smitty's.) (So, need more color for a Citrus, and more ribbons.)

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I used to have free access to NewspaperArchive.com. I would have gotten started over there by looking for marbles stories during the war years. But my library's subscription to that ended in July. Darn it.

I saw it as All-Red my first time through the thread. I figured it was twisted somehow to make the orange patch look unusual.

Thanks for touching base, Grant. Congratulations to all.

Oh I love old cloth marble bags .I wish I had rescued my father's before he decided it was too ragged and threw it away. I would have found a way to display it forever. Just didn't think of it in time. Oh, yes the marbles are sweet too!

Fun .... that's some small fruit or some big marbles.

Yes.

Master. Gotta be.

This is the kind of cat's eye which is often called a St. Marys. There are other combos which are legit St. Marys. And there are some modern ones which are reminiscent of the vintage St. Marys, but I'll leave it at this for now. Maybe someone else can show more pix or give an explanation. Do you have any particular marbles that you had questions about?

A marble friend, Don, sent me these pictures as examples of what collectors may call Aces: The base is sort of milky, but doesn't have the orange glow which the official Akro company Ace had: Here are the ones he showed as basic Ace shooters. Here's a more fancy variety. He called these Tomato Ace Cork Shooters. The name that Akro sold them under was Moss Agate. (For Akro, Moss Agates could be patches, or they could swirly/corky marbles.) But it's a pretty solid tradition for collectors to call this kind Aces.

In the first picture I was thinking vintage. But, yep, that orange strip says modern to me. Pretty solid modern vote here.

However, for collectors a different kind of marble is frequently called an Ace. I need to go find a picture or a link. Be right back.

Ace can be a tough question. For Akro, the Ace was one of these: If you hold an Ace up to the light, the white should have some orange glow inside. More Ace pictures here: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/17380-akro-aces-early-1930s

There are roughly three groups. 1) One group say the white and yellow/orange on the dark base makes a Champion Jr. 2) One group says "Champion Jr." was just the label on a small bag. There was also a larger bag which said Champion. And a lot of different Rainbos came in the bags and so there is no such thing as a Champion Jr. marble. They're all just Rainbos. 3) One group calls a lot of different marbles Champion Jrs. I never really figured out which all they call Champion Jrs, but let's say roughly that it's all the different kinds of marbles you would find in a Champion Jr. bag. Group #1 and Group #2 are the ones who usually get into an argument. In my mind I call yours a Champion Jr. but sometimes I won't say it out loud.

(Yes, some people call it that. I like the name myself. Some people don't. Fights have broken out over it. No joke.)

I would say Rainbo. Rather than multi-colored rainbo. Multi-colored rainbo is usually for the style which has six ribbons, usually in three colors.

A surprise in my carrots. It gave me a scare when I reached in to pluck that odd-looking "weed". But it's pretty, isn't it.

I remember that temperature. I don't think I could take it now. We're only in the 80's and I'm melting.

Yessir, 9 and tail! That is a handgathered marble. I think you have yourself a brick. Galen is in the neighborhood. @lstmmrbls, what do you think about that much black?

with that texture it does look modern and foreign ... but with the swirls I sure wanted it to be Mexican. I don't recognize a style name though. Closest I could come on the colors was this https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=262

that is a handsome marble