Steph

James is right. It can be nice to see a large group to get a feel for someone's collection. For specific information smaller groups are better. From the larger version of your picture which you posted in the test forum, I see a number of Akros, one Master, and some West Virginia swirls. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/22780-test/ From that group, the Akros would be the most valuable. In particular the ones with oxblood (which is a special opaque reddish glass). Condition matters a great deal though. One nick can reduce a marble's value by half.

Oh yes, many. VERY many. I wouldn't even want to single one out -- I belong to lots of them. If you do a search at facebook for "marble" or "marbles" hopefully you can pull some up. (If someone else wants to suggest one to James, feel free.)

Hi James. Welcome! Working at an antique shop would be a dream job ....

There are other colors of glow also ... such as blue ... which I think comes from calcium.

Bright green-ish is probably from uranium. Orange could be from manganese. Uranium was used in the 1800's and 1900's ... and then I think there was a time in the mid 1900's when it wasn't available, maybe because of war, and then it was used again in the late 1900's. And I guess it's been used this century, but I don't know. So, no, it usually isn't a clue about the age. Except I think for sulphides (the clear glass marbles with the little white figures in them) ... I think that a faint glow could mean old for those ... and if the faint glow is missing that might mean new. Maybe someone with more sulphide experience can confirm.

Welcome, we'll see what we can do.

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Trying to see if the white ones are a swirl structure or two-seamers. In spite of some ambiguity, I'm gonna guess two-seamers. And with that I say they are modern Marble Kings. I can't remember if I have any white modern Marble Kings, but I do have pinks. Small ones. Edit: if the whites are swirly then obviously not MK, but swirly would make them more likely to be Champs.

5/8"?

Hiya Abe!

Wowza, I would totally have it with my Akros. But where is that green coming from? Is that the base? I'm not sure if it is a "mere" Sparkler.

Bump with a Jabo and an Akro.

Ready for April? We could segue into pastels with Jess's last cork there.

I'll have to pull out my copy of Marble Mania. We moved recently and my books are still packed up.

10 a day?! I'm gonna try to get back to two a day. You have cooler stuff than I do though.

Yup, it's hard, but it's addictive! When you look back in a couple of years, you'll smile at what your first guesses for marbles were and how far you've come.

Not slag. Essentially solid color though there are variations in it. If it's a little smaller than normal (closer to 9/16" than to 5/8") it would be called a "game marble". But it's closer to 5/8", isn't it. (Trying to read the tape measure.) The glass texture together with the swirl pattern makes me think of Champion Agate for the first possible maker. With Alley Agate as a fall back choice.

It's a Peltier National Line Rainbo. I think the collector's name for that particular NLR color combo is Superboy.

Looks like a wild one. A big wild one. Congratulations!