Steph

Sorry. I got turned around. And cool. Then I feel better about Alley.

Congratulations on the wild find! Those are two marbles? I was picturing it as three. Two in the top group, and the the green and white one. So the top is red, blue, yellow and of course white? I'm wavering between Akro and Vitro on that one. The neatness of the blue and red on the equator make me wonder if I should be thinking harder about Vitro, but right now I'm leaning Akro. Tri-Color Agate. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/21619-akro-tri-color-agates/ I'll guess Alley on the green and white, but I would feel better about that if it were an inch instead of 3/4 of an inch.

Heaton or Bogard ... I can never remember which anymore ... I have it in the Bogard folder at Photobucket, so let's call it that ... Four vanes. Transparent/translucent. At least three different shades. Plenty o' bubbles. Medium-surface area on the vanes.

P.s., nifty souvenir from Uncle Phil ... I still am unable to comment on gallery pix for some reason.

I'll vote Akro Onyx corkscrew

LOL ... I hadn't actually watched the videos before I made the post above. Now that I have, I have a big smile. The Dinosaur is great and the music on the second video woke me up. What fun you and Oliver must be having.

Hello Robert. Well, that's interesting. I didn't know that Hubelino existed until you just gave me cause for googling it. I _had_ heard of Duplo, but the marble run part of the building blocks was missing from my experience.

Yeah ...

Ric stopped by briefly ... maybe he'll step in again ... He would be a big help in the ID and explanations.

The glass for the early Pelts was made from scratch. Akro glass was also made from scratch. The later Pelts were made with recycled glass. Don't know if the switch to recycled glass ever occurred with Akro, but their later Tri-Color Agates do have a different look from their early ones.

If I had enough money, I would follow the snow. Change hemispheres with the seasons to always have fireplace weather.. At least I think I would. Maybe I would change my mind after a few years of all snow all the time.

Oh man ... time to build a snowman!

You got us.

That's what I was thinking -- Vitro. Except the colors are coming across so thick that I wonder about Japanese. The long straight seems are more of a Vitro property though. So that's how I will vote.

No problem ... we count on you to warm up the audience ....

Thanks, Bob, for stalling for us!

No. Sorry. This is a new one. Well, modern. Maybe not new. They were seen at least back as far as the 80's. It's a Vacor Galaxy. I don't know how the colors were applied -- however, we count it as a machine-made.

Help! Ron recently threw quite the major kink into my understanding of this category. He pointed out a surprising type and everything I thought I knew about them shattered! LOL And now I need to rebuild it! So, what is the range of variation? Some looks so different from Marble King and some looks so similar. And some may actually have come from MK (right?) when they had orders to fill and ran out. I need to haul ought my copy of American Machine-Made Marbles to check that part.

I'd say it was mostly MK and one or both of Heaton and Bogard. (Heaton became Bogard.) Need a thread about range of variation of Heaton/Bogard cats because they had a wide range AND I'm pretty sure that some of their packages contain Marble Kings ... from times when they needed to fill orders and didn't have enough. MK was pretty consistent until recently. Lately they got some chubby vaned hybrid cats which could theoretically be thought of as Vitros.

I think I just gazed into that blue in the top right view for a full minute before I realized I was lost in it.

My marbles are mostly packed. I know we have some people with spiffy displays. Hope a lot of people play.

I don't know about submarines. The lavender makes me think we might be looking at a Jabo or DAS. When did you acquire it?

Hoody, here's one for you ... might be too American ... but maybe you'll get it .... http://marbleconnection.com/topic/21250-humor-ar-ar/