Steph

Akro called their slags onyx, you know. And when they switched to making these corkscrews, they called this style onxy. So there you go. And I love the triple ribbons! That's wild.

I think it could be oxblood. Turquoise glass is where I most often see accidental oxblood occur. I don't know the right chemical names, but somewhere in the neighborhood of copper oxide and/or cupric oxide and/or cuprous oxide ... those are involved in making turquoise glass and in making oxblood.

More views on the top left please. I would like to see if that one is a Peltier Rainbo. I'm thinking West Virginia swirl on the top right. No guess at this time on the third marble. Swirl? Slag? Rainbo? No guess yet. Among the WV swirls there is an Alley which is called a Pistachio which is expected to glow under blacklight, but that's a green based marble. And there's a Jackson swirl which is dark blue with a swirl that looks unremarkable, but the swirl can be fluorescent. So those are two examples where it's helpful to know what they do under blacklight. In general though, it's not a factor in identifications. Here's my Jackson which illustrates the above. The understated ribbon was made with fluorescent Vitrolite cullet.

Top right and top left here are Akro Moss Agates. I'm going with Vitro Conqueror on the bottom three marbles. I haven't seen enough views of the middle marble on the right.

Oooh, what did I miss?!

Buy the bag and then make it your quest to buy similar marbles to what's inside. Then you can put the bag and the loose marbles in a Riker case and you have a nice display.

Some bags are where pretty much all the value is. A very hard to find Vitro bag with common conquerors in it? Don't open! In general I'd try really hard to not open most bags. Easier now that I've been doing this awhile than when I was starting out. I do have a few Japanese cat's eye bags still intact. But I bought an Anacortes Vitro bag to be educated. And even if I can't find another, I don't mind that I took the marbles out to get some clear photos of them. Basically my advice is to put the bag in a safe container and wait until you are sure about it. Remember, even though you might say, "I'll just remove these staples and I can put it back together," it's easier said than done to reassemble. And if it's "I'll just make a small hole in the bag," well that's not undoable.

Yes, the third looks like it could possibly turn out to be a corkscrew. More views needed. I'll say "West Virginia Swirls" for the other three.

The top marble appears to be a game marble. The second might turn out to be a Peltier Rainbo. More views are needed for ID-ing marbles. What happens under blacklight isn't often used for ID.

Not seeing enough of the marble structure to make ID's. However, I think the 2nd from the top might be a Peltier Rainbo.

When I started collecting I used to read about an Akro "ear" used for ID-ing slags. I never nailed down what that meant but this view looks pretty ear-like

Thinking Akro on the bottom left.

Dang ... I just saw picture of a similar looking marble identified as CAC American Agate by a respected collector. Okay ... mark me in the "single seam doesn't always mean CAC but I don't know what this one is" column.

But the base is not tan either though, right? White or gray? Okay, I'm between Peltier and Marble King. But at a roadblock. I'll sit back and observe.

Oh, good call if that's tan and not lavender. Do muddies fluoresce?

Lavender? Not saying yes or no to Pelt, but with lavender and 3/4", that would open the door a crack for Jabo. And the pattern is coming through as a bit like Marble King. Big help, I know. Could you rotate this view forward to give a head-on look at that seam? And also maybe another pic to give us a better view of the green end?

Pelt Rainbo. I marked my best guess for the location of your two seams.

Your red glow might be from manganese. There are many chemical components which give UV glow -- cadmium, manganese, selenium, calcium, boron, etc. -- but I have trouble keeping straight which does which.

@Nantucketdink Josh?

I'm going with Jabo.

whoa!

Peltier Acme Realer

peltity pelt pelt pelt! But don't ask me the name. Something seems odd about the base glass. Plus there's some extra green going on. I'm gunshy on Pelt names!

Here is some Akro oxblood and some Jabo. No glow in the oxblood parts. Some reflected glow on the middle marbles from the lemonades on the left, but that lemonade base is the only glowing part here.

Your reds glowing like that would probably be a sign that they are not oxblood. I pulled out a few oxbloods and my blacklight to check and I have no glow in the oxblood area. I'll try to find some more oxbloods from at least one more maker and then try to muster up some photos.