Steph

A nicely colored pair of hybrids at 3/4". I saw when the bid was $700 and I wasn't shocked by the bid. I guess I'm not shocked at $1500 either, but I don't have any idea what they "should" go for since I've never been in the market for one. When I think a hard-to-find marble is out of my reach I don't pay much attention to pricing.

Sorry that happened. Thanks for sharing.

P.s. I like clearies a whole lot and in the 1950s clearies helped the Vitro Agate company stay open during tough times for American marble manufacturers. So though they are "commons" I gotta say a good word about them. 🙂

Hello. Welcome. You have a mix of ages. Some modern. Some going back at least to the 1940s. The three decorated ones aren't actually marbles. They are part of a hoax that started in the 1990s. Someone procured used industrial ball mill balls, the kind used to crush chemicals in factories. Then they decorated them and took them around to unsuspecting antique dealers. In the rest you have some game marbles and clearies and catseyes which usually have little value, but you also have some more interesting ones which could have a little more value though nothing jumped out to me as high dollar. But I am on my phone typing with one finger with a purring cat in my lap so I will leave it to others for now to give you more input.

No. Might have some other name like weak milk or some such, but I don't know those names. Just that it's not a buttermilk.

Superiors have yellow surrounded by a pair of red ribbons. Chuck B's pic:

Tri-Lite.

Hello. Welcome. More photos could help. The orange and black one near the top could be from the 1930's. The cat's eye underneath it is quite a bit later. The clearies and the small solid-colored marble at the top (that's called a game marble) could be oldish or could be newer. They've been made by many companies for many decades, so it is practically impossible to pin those down.

Yes, I am under the impression that there are different rules for the big ones.

Based on the packaging I've seen them in, I would think of the pinchers/Wales style as being from the 1960's. As to which ones might not be Japanese, the first I feel strongly about is the middle marble on the left side. Also I'm not sure what to think about the red-based ones with white surface color.

I'm leaning Akro on both

Wow, Ric. #keeperthread ^^ #keeprthread is my way of telling myself that a thread needs to go into the archives after it has run its course. It gives me something unusual to put in the search engine.

Many are Japanese, of the Wales or Pincher variety. I don't think all though.

Could the first one be a Vitro Conqueror that got hung up in the machinery?

Trying to remember if that's Akro or Master. Now it's coming to me. They were sold by Ravenswood under the label Paul Bunyans, but bought from Master I think. Some Paul Bunyan bags were given an extra tag post-production saying the marbles came from Akro, but I am pretty sure it's Master.

It sure is trying ... the blue and red wanna be there .... Chuck Brandstetter's:

My first Bogard Halloween is in the mail ....

After catching up with this thread, somehow this thing I thought I wanted to post seems completely off-topic but here it is anyway. lol

Pelt

(((hug))) Take care of yourself. I hope tomorrow has good news for you.

Very well-disciplined for a 1-incher. How many vanes?

asian and modern (and that color is my favorite from the modern asians)

Pretty. Maybe Alley. One of those WV swirl makers.

Marble King. I see how you count six colors. Oddly, I would have thought of it as a two color marble. Just the red and "brown". I often count white as a color, but I wouldn't have thought of it here because I was only seeing what I thought Marble King _meant_ to have -- which was two veneered colors covering a white base.