Steph

I was searching for my lone CAC pastel and found this old pic by Jill Marie. Much prettier.

impromptu salmon patties ... hybrid of different recipes found online adapted to what I had in the kitchen. had no lemon juice -- used red wine vinegar. not bad but lemon juice is now on the shopping list.

Dig those kicks and knickers!

a well-rounded display

beautiful flowers

I can get that.

Row 1: Left marble could be Peltier or it could be Vitro -- a head on view of the seam(s) could help. Then WV swirl (maybe Alley). Then Peltier Rainbo. Row 2: In this view, looks like Peltier Rainbo. Then possibly an Akro corkscrew -- but more views needed. Then a Marble King Wasp. Row 3: I kinda wanna guess Ravenswood on the first one (but could be Alley), then looks like Alley on the 2nd. And then I think Alley on the third, but I wonder what Christensen Agate collectors would say about it.

Some of those marbles are very worn glass.

I sent out an SOS about the last one I heard of.

It was a fad in the 1960's. A high profile fad. Written up in newspapers -- and someone even was reported as having sent some "fried marble" jewelry to the Kennedy family in the White House. .... if I correctly recall my old newspaper reading that I did a few years back.

No worries! You're great!

(The swirls with the white base and green or turquoise ribbons aren't worth as much.) (Again, likely Alley or Ravenswood, but in the "common" category.)

You have some good ones there. The green base with black swirls are called Pistachios. Made by Alley, or maybe Ravenswood. In mint condition they can bring decent money -- $5 to $50 or maybe even more depending on the pattern. One the bottom left, that looks like an Akro corkscrew -- a very pretty one. Don't wanna guess what it could be worth, but my hunch is that it would be considered desirable.

Most are Vitro All-Reds. Some people call them Pepsi marbles, for what I hope is an obvious reason. On the third row down the marble on the left looks like it could be something else. And maybe the marble on the right.

Few plain white marbles have value. There are some which are handmade (and have pontils). There are some which are called Moons or Moonies. Some Akro Moonies have "fish eyes" where you can see through the marble .. and can see orange glow inside the marble when holding it up to a light. (Just because you can see orange glow that doesn't make it a moonie.) Here's a recent thread with a little glimpse of some collectible white marbles http://marbleconnection.com/topic/22740-time-for-a-moonmoonie-thread/#comment-204436

Whose fingerprints do they use in crime dramas on TV? Are they made up? Are they the fingerprints of production staff?

Well done. Almost all West Virginia swirls. And almost all in that category of "Probably made by Alley -- some maybe from Ravenswood." Mostly from the 1930's and maybe spilling into the 1940's. There are two which on my screen look like they have bright yellow patches. Pull those out.

So, it IS a cat's eye. An Asian cat's eye. A common pattern. The unusual metal inclusion is what makes it special. Thanks for the extra pictures to clear that up.

Gotta get out my bucket of popcorn again

That's why I picked up my bucket of popcorn. I would have pictured a different marble to go with green zebra name, but if this is it, then this is it.

Hmmm, different ... still looking sorta cat-eye-y but not. How about one looking straight down onto the "top", that is, where the ribbons come together.

I guess I was distracted by the shiny thing!