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At one inch, without having more hints, my best guess is a Master clearie. What does it look like under blacklight? Can you see hints of Master structure inside?

Wow. Wouldn't that be something to find out in the middle of nowhere? ... or even in someone's house.

We used to think Champion. I'm pretty sure we have moved these over into Alley.

My other SOS came in. Chuck B. doesn't recognize it as Vitro. He thinks maybe foreign.

That'll put a smile on your face. That bright green has some flare.

What is happening in picture #3? A cutline? A cold roll? Your corkscrew thought keeps me going back to transitional, but don't know how to reconcile the first picture with that. Sorry, I'm no help. Hopefully someone else will be more help.

This one is looking more slaggy. Still not sure. Might benefit from pulling the camera back a little from the marble.

Top view made me think of Alley. Third view made me think of a Japanese transitional. So, is it random swirly as picture 1 suggests or is there more of a 9 and tail structure that I'm not picking up clearly?

I'll leave this post since it gives us the size of the marble in the other thread in case anyone is curious about that.

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.

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