Steph

Yeah, for the size, if vintage I would look toward Alley. But without Ron to tag in for a swirl opinion, who? @Ric @cheese Don't want to leave anyone out. Mike, you seem a jack of all trades too. Do you want to be on my swirl tag team? @I'llhavethat1

I don't think he's accusing you of lying. I think he's just commenting on how new marbles have a way of creeping into old collections. People can be convinced they're all old and still new ones managed to get it. No lies involved. I have a question for you -- when did your mother pass these along to you? I have a question for Josh -- if you're seeing Jabo, do you have an idea of which year it might be? And I have a question for everyone else -- what would your top three guesses be for this marble? Even if your top guess is Jabo, what are two other makers it looks closest to?

Another possibility to research -- I just heard that it was said that marbles were blasted in coal mines to loosen the coal. ???

My vote: Jabo Classic with a piece of furnace brick inside.

Wow!

It is possible there are some errors here. Joe had the help of one of the greatest Vitro collectors of all, Chuck Brandstetter. I don't know if that factored into his ID's of if there were mistakes made. I guess I probably agree with you on the "Victory" moving over to the Conqueror section. But it's possible the last marble would have come from Chuck's Tri-Lite collection. I'm not aware of Joe giving any sizes, so we can't know if the last marble was a shooter, for example. I know that Joe was going all out to meet his personal deadlines for getting the marbles ID-ed and online, which could have let more errors creep in. We have lost both Joe and Chuck since the pages were published so can't ask what the logic might have been for those particular IDs. I would feel pretty good calling yours a Tri-Lite. Not 100% sure but I think really good odds as I go through the later Vitro styles I know of.

I accept the Akro consensus!

With a translucent base, I don't expect it to be Marble King. It still seemed to be at odds with yesterdays's Yellow Jacket group photo. But on the Marble King version that I was thinking of, I expected a solid blue base under the red and yellow patches. So maybe a Marble King type I'm unaware of, maybe a Vitro Tiger Eye with colors I don't recognize, or ???

I was gonna spitball with something like Cairo Novelty but then I remembered the 3/4" size. Cairo is low odds, and big Cairo is even lower. But hey, I'm trying here!

Strong Alley feeling on the middle. Moderately high Alley feeling on the left (if vintage, then Alley) The right has a fanciness which makes me unwilling to take a guess. (My guess would still be Alley, but very shaky)

Thanks for this. I didn't want to discount the possibility that being buried could somehow have resulted in this epic damage but I was surprised by it. Summary so far of what I'm seeing: The marbles are clearly glass. They appear machine-made. No signs of mica flakes in the parts of the interior that we can see. There's a mineral-looking effect on the remaining surface, which may be a combination of the strange pulverization of the outer layer plus some iridizing effect from being buried plus complicated reflections coming from glass which has been so thoroughly fractured.

Being buried can do odd things to the surface of glass. Give it a matte finish sometimes. Give it an abalone sheen other times. For example.

I was waiting for the rest of the story.

Lemon Lime, right?

I clicked through on one of your earlier photos to get the most enlarged version and my current best guess is that the green is a cat's eye. Do you see it there in the middle? Looks like a cat eye with narrow vanes or a banana with ridges. So now I'm wondering if the surface contains green as it appears to do, or if that's all very complicated reflections from the green shape inside.

Perfect!

Lovely

Maybe Jabo. I think I'm seeing Jabo style hitmarks.

I don't see signs of mica in the marbles. As Bill said though, that damage is quite effectively obscuring the interior. Hard to be definitive.

1930's Vitro Tri-Lite Collector name: Superior

???? Add Master for consideration. ????

It's not the most common pattern, but my best and only guess is Peltier Rainbo.

Not quite so orange. That's more promising. I withdraw my query about the orange. However the top right still looks out of place.