Steph

You might be onto something there. Serine, if that's a Rebel, that's a good one.

Could be Master in the black cat eye. Top two Vitros are Conquerors. I was going to say Tiger Eye on the Vitro with lavender, but maybe it's an "Easter Egg". The group of Vitros is All Reds.

The green ones and blue one in the pictures which you added while I was typing my other answer ... I'd just call them "transparent swirls" and probably not try to get much deeper on them. However, since one is a peewee, I think Alley becomes a strong possibility.

I think your camera is focused more on the detail in the cloth under the marbles. If you use a plainer background, it could help the focus on the marble. I'm not recognizing the first marble. Is that yellow and white together in an amber base? Or is part of the amber looking yellow when we see the white behind it? I think Master on the green one. And I'm not getting a good feel for the last one either. My first thought is slag. But I don't know.

Thanks for the update, Brian.

That green one that you like in the 2nd image might be an Alley Agate.

That's a lot of marbles for one thread. I split this off into its own thread because that's the first step -- a new thread for each new group to ID. We'll see if anyone feels like jumping in and ID-ing a few. One kind of marble you might be able to quickly learn to ID is the Akro Corkscrew. If you can master that one, you'll have a nice chunk of yours ID-ed. Picture 1, Row 1, #7 might be a corkscrew. And Picture 1, Row 2, #4. And Row 3, #1 And Row 4, #4 and #5 And some others. The last row in Picture 1 -- #8 (2nd from right) might be one. That's interesting. I'll stop there for now. Two reasons that we need only a few marbles per thread: 1) It's a daunting task to see so many at once and try to ID. 2) Often we need more than one view of a marble to be able to ID it, so when we start asking for extra views in a thread which has a lot of marbles, that gets very complicated. That said -- I would like to see more views of that blue and yellow one on the bottom row in Picture 1.

Wild story ... sneaky "grandfather". I like your attitude. Glad you got your agate back.

Just patching words together here, but maybe "burnt spiderman"?

White and black count.

1934 (thanks, Mike)

1931

Front and back of the 1930 flyer

top o' the mornin' to ye!

This one with the sorta aqua-blue and red could be a Peltier Spiderman. Or maybe a different kind of Peltier. The orange one to the lower left might turn out to be an Akro Flintie. If you could put them in small groups where it's easy for us to say something like "first marble in the second row is such-and-so", we could ID a lot of these. (And a new thread for each small group also helps get more ID's. )

Thanks for clearing that up.

Hi, Serine. You have a nice vintage mix there. I'm seeing marbles from the 1930's to 1960's. I see at least two Akro Agate Popeyes. Those are popular and while not rare, they're not common. Here's a photo from a box of Popeyes so you can maybe pick yours out. They're a type of "corkscrew". (You also have some other corkscrews which are a little plainer but still desirable.) (And there are some other interesting marbles in there. This popeye pic is just for starters.)

That confuses me a wee bit. Are those Pelts? (Coz last I checked, Pelt started making marbles in 1927.) Was that onyx and cerise from a different maker? Or anticipation of what Peltier would offer? Or did Peltier start sooner than I realized. I suppose this may be in the Pelt book. I better shut up until I can go find my book and see what's there. One of the ads I was trying to find when I started this thread ... but no hurry ... was a short one like those but it mentioned at least the Acme Realers and maybe the glassonix, and I can't remember what else.

That goes all the way back to the beginning.

Marble Museum is closed?

darnit

Can't say they're not Master. However, they're not what Master originally billed as Cloudys. They could be Meteors. To the best of my understanding, this box has Cloudys on the left and Meteors on the right. Cloudys are "solid colors", which I think we can safely say means "single color". I could see all of your group fitting into a box of Meteors.

Congrats, Ron. Grab a life jacket, Bud.