Steph

what a great pattern

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Does look like a seam.  A long one.  

I'm leaning toward late Vitro.  About 1990.   From when they were in Anacortes.  


 

The impurities are interesting. It's handgathered.  Has the "nine and tail".

That means odds are MFC or Akro.  

The 9 isn't very tight.  That could point toward Akro.  


Will now step back and hope one of the people who collect that era can give insight. 

And then there was the Charles Christensen scandal.  @bumblebee, do you still have a copy of that kinda sad, kinda cute news story?  

Just saw the name "Akro Prizename" and had a flash of amused curiosity about that moment when the company managers decided to officially name them that.

Of course there was originally a contest where kids were supposed to come up with the name for the new corkscrew marbles.  So the boxes _said_ "prize name" on them because they were delivering the contest rules.  And then there was a winner of the contest, and the winning name was "Fire Opal".  

But somewhere along the way back in 1930, the Akro guys decided to make the writing on the box be the official name of the marble, and the contest winning name wasn't used ... at least not for corkscrews. 


Sooo ... I'm amused by whoever decided to name their marbles after their box.  
 

I'm also finding it difficult. 

Can be hard to show details on marbles with a lot of transparency.  Sometimes using the flash instead of natural light can help show off the structure of a transparent  marble.  Also putting the marble in a bowl of water has been used to help show off what's happening inside it.  

Am I seeing a seam in the third photo?  

Slightly larger pix would be good.  (Can crop more off the side to keep the kilobytes small.)  


My first guesses are a more modern marble.  Possibly a Jabo or a late Vitro. 

 

Been so long since I found marbles "in the wild".  

That's the dream!

Hi.  Welcome. 

Not a pontil mark.

It's machine made, -- no punties were used.  I'm trying to remember if I learned what caused that type of mark.  Something happened to it while the glass was still hot, but not quite hot enough for it to completely round that out on the rollers.  

I think that's a West Virginia Swirl.  I'll estimate date of production at 1930's to 1950's.  (Though I can't swear it's not a later, if Champion made it.)

Score


I need to find us a happy dance emoticon.  

I'll PM you the link to his facebook page ... I told him you might be contacting him.  

If you're not on facebook, maybe I can get his email.  

He has been known to sell them.  Don't know if he still does.  I could point you his way.  

If I'm seeing the one with white and yellow correctly, it is sometimes called a "Transparent Whitie".  It's more closely related to the Tiger Eyes than the Whities though.  Was found in the cellophane packages which were given away as premiums. 

(Clear base, right?)

I think manddrakes meant "Vacor" on #10.  

#11 is a vintage Japanese marble which we call a Wales style.  Because one of the name brands it was sold  under was Wales.  

Cold and sunny yesterday.

Cold and gloomy today. 

Ah, no, there's some sun peeking through now.  Yay.  

interesting!

I wouldn't have guess Jabo on those.  What size are they?

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He checks in periodically.

@wvrons

wow

The less busy side is so delicate ... loving it

Show us a mongoose!


Remember the Orange Peel?  

exciting
 

maybe a little too exciting  

Ray Laubs sent me these pix of cat's eyes he made -- I think they're worthy of kicking off a new thread.