Steph

Here's one it reminded me of. Not as much coverage as Dan's, obviously, but some wide ribbons. I had that one in with my Rainbow Reds for a long time ... until one day the light hit it just right and I realized that was a Peltier green base, not a weird MK black ribbon.

Modern for #3 through 7 #3. Asian (the style called Imperial, but I'm trying to get out of the habit of saying that) #4. Maybe Vacor. (If not, then Asian) #5. Does it have cutlines? Not sure ....presuming foreign #6. Foreign. Leaning Asian. #7. Vacor #1 ... what are the cutlines shaped like? short? long? V-shaped? straight? #2 is a puzzle. I'll guess modern but I don't have a guess for a maker with one off-center brown ring around the middle. Does it have an iridescent finish? Or is a normal glass finish just with reflections?

Thanks, Mike.

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Sean, check out the new pix over here:

If those are the same marbles, then I'd have both of them in my Pelt box.

From this thread? http://marbleconnection.com/topic/23694-id-help/

It hard to ID a marble when all the photos are backlit. But I bet you're right about them being Pelt Rainbos.

What does the red and white look like backlit?

That's great! So much fun.

Do any of them have MFC in them?

I'm still leaning Pelt on the first one -- or at least considering it as a possibility. Some wide ribbons, but they're arranged in the Pelt flip-flop pattern.

That's wonderful to hear!

That looks like 1929 and 1930-31

I thought I would post them all in order. Supposed to be a complete set of Akro ads. But there's a lot of repetition through the 20's. Which makes sense of course now that I think about it. I think I'll probably post them all anyway. We'll just have a bit of deja vu.

I agree on the left marble. I probably agree on the right. However, the top right view is throwing me. The coloring on the right marble is also throwing me.

That's a beauty. Gotta be Vitro.

Yes, Pelt. NLR on the one with darker ribbons. Possibly NLR on the one with brighter ribbons. The first view looked NLR. The 2nd one looked like it could be Rainbo. Can be harder to be sure with the basic red and white.

Here's a batch of dug Akros which Lizzy posted ... which is probably the closest thing I'm going to be able to find right now for why I thought Akro on #3. . My thought was that your marble was supposed to be blue and white and that the brown was accidental. So that's why I'm still sitting here on fence on that one.

I'm the one who mentioned Anacortes, in connection with the first one. Because I remember an Anacortes with a transparent yellow base. So, no not about a horseshoe pattern. When I said "third guess", it was my third guess for the first marble. If #3 is Vitro, then I think it would be earlier than Anacortes. Anacortes is 1980's to early 1990's. I'm not sold on Vitro, but if it is Vitro, then I think earlier than that.

I think slag. I'm not seeing a clear nine or a cutline and the third shot looks zigzaggy. So I'll say Akro.

I got some nice marble mail today. Here's some from the Sears portion of the package. To be continued ....

May 1954 Back cover