Steph

Yeah ... I'm really leaning swirl. Basically, Dan, the swirls are mostly West Virginia marbles made after 1930. There were around 10 companies making them. I can't remember the exact count. The slags were an earlier style which started with M.F. Christensen around 1903, and were picked up by a few other companies -- Akro, Christensen Agate, Peliter -- in the 1910's and 20's -- and then were mostly phased out around 1930. So, when we have a transparent-based swirl, we usually call it "Transparent Swirl" and leave it at that. It's almost impossible to nail them down to a particular company if you don't have original packaging or didn't dig them up on site.

I'm thinking Vacor Goldfish. https://www.billes-en-tete.com/detail.php?id=88 It might be a discontinued style, which could add a little extra value if you find the right customer. However, it may not have been discontinued long enough to get that value. Here is someone selling two pounds for 20 dollars. https://www.ebay.com/itm/MARBLES-2-POUNDS-5-8-INCH-GOLDFISH-MEGA-MARBLES-FREE-SHIPPING/14270 Maybe hang onto it in case it becomes harder to find in future.

If it's a slag, then the randomness of it, would indicated Akro. It _might_ be a transparent swirl. I don't know if it's just me, but lately I've seen quite a few where I wasn't sure I could tell for sure if it was in the slag category or the swirl category

The one on the right MIGHT be a little older than the other three. It could possibly be a National Line Rainbo. NLR, for short. Hard to say. Might need to gather more NLRs and see if if fits better with them or fits better with the slightly later Rainbos. The NLR era is late 20's through early 30's. The Rainbo era started in the mid-30's and went on to the about the 60's.

Could be ... but how can you be sure? Based on the numbers of Kokomos created, when it doubt, tie goes to Pelt. Sometimes I really wanna say "Koko" and you'll hear me instead say "Made on a Rainbo machine" ... that's my way of covering myself ... coz I don't commit to the location of that particular Rainbo machine at the time the marble was made.

I was really hoping that Edna would say, "Of course -- that's part of the pea family. It's a Blue Eyed Susan."

Okay. I'd like to see more information on that. In the top photo the yellow area doesn't look even a little MK to me. If the only pic I had seen was the bottom one, maybe I might have thought of MK.

I sent out a couple of SOS's. Linda Simmons and Edna say they've never seen them.

And it's solid blue around the rest? No little lines separating the blue into an equatorial ribbon plus a patch?

little bitty bubbles in the base glass I think I'm seeing slightly translucent base with little bitty bubbles. That's sometimes a sign of Heaton or Cairo Novelty.

P.s., hello and welcome.

Is that base glass a little seedy? If so we might be looking at a Heaton.

near mint

Snow will make my nieces and nephews happy! Sorry for your 5 hour drive for nothing.

Some of his look more crackly than others, if that's one of the differences you're thinking of.

Could be all Master.

Tom Thornburgh

Really good chance of Champion on that one.

They don't look Akro. The Akro Moonie ia expected to have orange glow coming from inside when you backlight it (or when you look through it with a light source behind it). Do you have that? It's not coming through in the photos. The light bluish one on the right of the grouping of six looks like it might be a swirl, so we might have Champion. Check for Master-like cut lines on some of the others. More interesting to me than Akro Moonie is the Master Cloudy. Those are harder to find and ID.

Yeah, hard to guess. If it has seams that could be a little clue. But that's in the "clearies" or "game marbles" category, where a lot of companies could have made them.

Exactly! Hey .... lookit! http://marbleconnection.com/topic/15451-decatur-il-marble-show-anyone-go/?tab=comments#comment-132724 From 2011 ... so it's not a very recent name game thing. "Chocolate Hermaphrodite: Blue, orange/pink, NLR with adventurine, chocolate base."