Steph

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!

Machine-made. The marble-rounding machine which revolutionized the American marble industry was invented around 1900. At that time, marbles were still "hand-gathered". Which meant that globs of molten glass were picked up on a piece of metal and manually dropped onto the mechanical marble rollers for rounding. In the 1920's the molten-glob-producing process was automated. That's when the "gob feeder" was introduced to the process and marbles became entirely machine made.

Here is a thread full of Peltier patches http://marbleconnection.com/topic/21372-pelt-patches/

With your new pix, I confidently say Vitro Tri Lite on the left. A 1930's marble. Still not sure on the right, but it does look vintage. You showed a lot of the white and not so much the yellow. I think it might turn out to be a Peltier patch.

I think it probably is a Vitro Conqueror. A 1940's marble.

Also, I would still like other views of the middle two here.

This last one is a Vitro cage style Cat's Eye. Could be from the 60's through the 80's. If you keep marble hunting, you'll find it's a very common style. A few dollars for the whole group? Or few dollars for an individual? I might pay a few dollars to get the big Marble King Rainbows. Wait for a second opinion.

The left picture looks like a Vitro Conqueror. Maybe a hybrid version if the blue patch is surrounded in green. The right picture looks a little odd ... but I guess it could be the backside of a Conqueror.

Yeah, that sounds better.

Have a blast!

But those colors aren't flip-flopping, are they .....

Interesting. Do they seem definitely Akro ... as opposed to say Master Cloudys? Edit: oh, never mind .... that's not an Akro box!

I guess I lean Rainbo ..... for now .......

With this group of non-cat's-eyes, I think the first (on the left) could be a Vitro Conqueror from the 1940's. The 2nd ... well, I'm not sure. Maybe also Vitro. The 3rd ... white and yellow ... maybe a simple patch ... could be oldish. The 4th ... I'm leaning modern and Asian. Standard disclaimer: More views could change my mind.

The big red and white one and the big green and white one are Marble King Rainbows from the 50's or 60's. Those would be American marbles. The big white with red and blue ribbons might be a newer Asian marble. Not sure. Asian is also my current guess for the big dark-colored one. The clear with red is a cat's eye, as are most of the smaller ones.

Got the pictures. Posted in a new thread: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/22763-some-of-ekims-marbles/ They didn't help me make up my mind on this green and red/orange/yellow marble in this thread. Darn.

That's a mixture of old and new. For example, the smaller one in the 2nd picture is one of the modern ones. So, basically, that's not going to help narrow down my guess when I'm trying to decide between 1930's and 1990's. You appear to have some of both.

Hmm, at that size and with that color combination, it's getting harder. Could be after 1990. Could be 1930's. More views might help someone. Also helpful might be seeing the other marbles that it came with.

Likely less than a dime. Surely no more than a dollar.

Pretty sure no significant value for decorative mineral spheres. If they were hand-faceted agates made for kids to play with, they would be wanted for the marble collection and we might be talking a few dollars. Still not high.