Steph

1. Asian cat's eye. Common style. Modern. If there's any value, it comes with the large size. 2. Also Asian. Known as an "Imperial" because the Imperial Toy Company distributed them. Modern. 3 & 4. Vitro or Akro. Vintage. 5. Maybe Vitro cage style cat's eye. 6. Asian cage style cat's eye. 7. ? 8. Appears to have an oily finish. Modern. 9. I think vintage. Not seeing enough of the seams to be able to guess maker. 10. ? 11. Maybe West Virginia Swirl. If so, then vintage. 12. Is this light-ish or heavy-ish. If light, then probably clay, though could be a ceramic with color worn off. If heavy, then maybe stone. Though old, no particular value. One name for a single-colored clay marble is "commie" ... because they were so common. 13. Hmmmm ... probably vintage. Two or three companies it could be. Marble King, Vitro, Akro. Maybe I should be able to say which one, but it's too early in the morning. 14. This one is looking foreign. Asian. Modern.

Fun set.

so much color

I'm pretty confident about it too!

Looks like a mix of old and new. Nothing jumps out at me as something which would fund your retirement.

It's the pattern. Here are some Marble King bumblebees I photographed recently. (Forgive the shade -- they came out slightly green-tinted in the picture.) Your Jabo is a sort of "swirl" with one long ribbon of black. The MK bumblebee has what is known as a "patch and ribbon" color distribution. Two seams. Multiple ribbons in a particular pattern. (There's also a Peltier Bumblebee with a different pattern, but same principle.)

Start a new thread for each new group. It gets very messy otherwise!

Agree. Jabo on the top three. So after 1990, probably after 2000, since I think the one with the bumblebee colors came from 2003 or 2004. Vitro Tiger eye on #5. Vitro Whitie on #6. (Tiger Eye from the 1950's. Whitie from 50's or 60's.) Al, what is it that they do to give it the frosted look? I forget. Is it acid wash?

Super! and shiny

Welcome, Pam. The more the merrier. Hope we can help.

indeed!

That's pretty wild ....... the marbles ... and managing not to have Masters or Marble Kings .......

Noooo .... all collectors names. Peltier called these two-color marbles with this basic pattern "Rainbos". The different names are from collectors. (Edit: I'm not treating the brown as a different intentional color. At least not from the era where a third color might have gotten a different name.) The only company I'm aware of giving their marbles different names for different color combos is Vacor (aka Mega aka Fabricas Selectas).

.... goes to look for a fainting emoticon .....

HOW THE VICTORIAN ERA CHANGED LIFE FOR CATS :)

You have some pretty colors to go along with your super sizes.

Cosmic rainbows are good in general. So, yeah, figuring big ones are very good. For the smaller ones, Cedarman got $4.99 to $12.15 in the recently completed listings. Someone has a blue and yellow 7/8" listed at a BIN of $22. Might have a small crack in that one -- or that might be a fiber. ... not a lot to go on ... but maybe it helps a little.

Yes. Cosmic Rainbows.

I"m going with clambroth. I feel pretty solid on that. *fingers crossed* lovely

Thanks, Dave. And thanks for adding.

post 'em if you got 'em

So, the history is that this is an early bag -- presumably after the Marble King company was incorporated in 1949 but before they started making their own marbles (which was sometime around 1955). So looks like Berry Pink just gathered together some colorful marbles for the ad, without worrying too much about whether he could match them when the orders started coming in. Mr. Pink bought the factory from Mr. Alley ... so that explains the Alleys in the package. He jobbered marbles for Mr. Peltier ... so that explains the Peltiers in the package. I think I also see some Akros in there ... and the Akro company had gone out of business around that time so there may have been some surplus floating around, but I thought Master got that. So ????? (Ric do you see Akros?) And what is that marble in the bottom right -- white with orange and yellow stripes?

The rotation in this view is interesting, but I'm not positing any opinion about how it was made. This subject is definitely above my pay grade.