Steph

Trivial fluke. Someone on eBay trying to turn a nickel marble into something special.

Okay, I found my Tribute to Frienship and the green sparkly stuff in mine is the flaky kind, not the fine shimmer seen here and and not nearly as dense as this marble.

You've got me thinking though. My answer was automatic by the look of the marble. But now I see the size of it. .70 inch. And the mention of it being out-of-round. And now I'm thinking about some Jabo Tribute to Friendship marbles I have that I want to compare to these photos. Chad, are you familiar with the known size range of the supposed Champion version?

I don't think so. Single seam doesn't always mean CAC. There are single seam Akros and Marble Kings ... and I have a single seam cat's eye. Here's my single seam Bumble Bee.

Last I heard common wisdom was Champion for the swirly version. There's a non-swirly version which I think is called Master.

I'm going with beautiful CAC

This one has to be a top contender -- a marble that Carole Shockley had Kevin Nail make for me. Sweet as honey.

I'll go see if I can choose a favorite. May take awhile.

If no one can find a Vacor name to match to it, it might turn out to be one of the new Asian varieties.

Do you ever replay a post in your head when you're not in a place that you can log on and fix it? This post should have said a Clownfish masquerading as a STUPENDOUS Master. Which is no big deal, right? Happens on eBay frequently, right? But this misidentified Vacor Clownfish happens to be enshrined on a popular collecting page. I can't remember the address right now but every time I run across it again I get grumbly.

Yeah, the vintage-patch-looking Vacors fascinate me. And I still maintain there's a clown out there wearing the name "Master" because it fooled some of the bigger names in marbles.

Marble King on left. I think Marble King is a pretty good option for the right. I have a single seam error Marble King bumblebee. Mine is definitely an error because it isn't round.

I'll go with "swirl"

Thank you, Al.

I don't recognize the header. The graphics don't seem very good. But it has the seam and the contents match the label. @Al Oregon, do you recognize it?

Wow. This is like an earthquake. Hard to imagine anyone who could be more missed than Ron. I'm about to cry.

Note the lack of three-color corkscrews in it. That doesn't mean the wrong marbles are in the box. "Special" was a catch-all name for Akro. Collectors somehow decided that Tri-Color Agates should be called Specials. But Akro sold various marbles in those boxes.

What everyone else said. Company name: Akro Onyx

So far I am on the side of Vitro cat.

wow. How many vanes? The vanes are looking quite Vitro, especially with what looks like a count of five, not six. But that base glass is sending me to the Billes-in-tete page to look for Swamp Thing pictures. The Swamp Things don't look that close. I know Vitro did a cage style cat in Windex-blue glass. But what else? I'm stumped.

Vacor cat's eye. The shredding of the vanes is one of the signs telling me Vacor.

Top right showing signs of handgathering, but I'm having the opposite problem on this one from the marble I just commented on. Pretty sure I'm seeing the cutline but that's a weak nine if I'm reading the first view right. I really have no idea how to choose between makers for a handgathered slag that might not quite be textbook.

The one that looks most distinctly slaggy is the top right. It has a pretty clean 9 in the first view but when I look for the cutline on the other end, I see such random-looking swirling that I'm a bit surprised by it. Are you able to pinpoint where the cutline is? The bottom right is distinctly swirly. The two on the left are telling me I need to get a refresher on slag versus swirl. If they're slags then I'm saying Akro.

Because of the thin-ness of the ribbons on the middle one, I could see that one being an Alley. I started to wonder about Champ on the outside, but at that size ... I'm thinking Jabo there. @wvrons ?

@wvrons ?