Steph

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)

 

28 minutes ago, Jeff54 said:

Glass doesn't get beat up like that even if 100's of years buried.

It can grow an iridescence which if you have not seen that in your digging it's of Tiffiney's early claim to fame by imitating ancient glass iridescence.

However, I have seen many pieces and bottles begin to grow it in as little as 50 years. In fact I have several German Handmade Cane pieces, dug-up at old factory sites that grew it just like old bottles I've dug up in the past.

I have 100's of dug-up marbles and surprising enough, they don't get beat as one might think.

I don't see that or mica rather, simply a couple of beat marbles. Try putting them in water to see if anything is visible.

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.  

 

30 minutes ago, Fire1981 said:

Ouch ! 🔥

RAR

I was waiting for the rest of the story. 

Lemon Lime, right?

10 minutes ago, Plutonianfire said:

It’s very hard to get photos of the mica layering pattern without interference from the superficial damage. However, a large chip broke off the green marble and I was able to get some photos showing the open undersurface of the green marble sitting on my green mica mineral specimen for comparison.  Photos aren’t great. FWIW.

 

 

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.  

2 hours ago, Melissa said:

More pics 

Not quite so orange.  That's more promising.  I withdraw my query about the orange. 

However the top right still looks out of place. 

2 hours ago, Melissa said:

Marble king even if a clear base?

Clear base?   No, not the particular Marble King that I'm thinking of.

But I also wouldn't expect a Yellow Jacket to have a clear base.  

 

This one should be obvious to me, but my brain is getting mushy in my old age.  I'm going to suggest Vitro.

WV Swirl

West Virginia swirl.  I have seen some fluorescent Ravenswood game marbles, if I recall corrctly, but this marble appears larger than a game marble.  So right now I'm considering Alley and Ravenswood but I'm not in the top 10 of the WV swirl people you'll find around the forums.  Ron Shepherd was #1 but we just lost him.   

Peltier 

I think modern Marble King on the top right marble.

I think the marbles with the white middles in the Yellow Jacket picture are doing double duty.  Pretty sure that bin of marbles would have been more likely to be use to fill an All-Red bag than it was to end up in a Yellow Jacket bag.  So don't be too sad.  


Also your original photo has some marbles in it with orange ends, not yellow.  I would like to hear more about what the Vitro gurus think about that.  

1 hour ago, Melissa said:

Red white and blue

Okay, if you're seeing three ribbon colors, I am on board with MCR.

However, I'm still not going NLR.  I think the MCR period straddled the NLR and early Rainbo era.   Some clearly have a meaty NLR era look and have been found in NLR era packaging.   Your structure looks Rainbo to me.  

Looks Rainbo to me.  Not NLR.

And I'm not seeing the "multicolor" aspect either.   What colors are the ribbons?  

9 minutes ago, Steph said:

 

 

Pardon my confusion here.  Is it possible that the backlit photos are the last marble on the left while the plain photos are the 3rd marble in that row?

I agree the backlit photos point squarely at Peltier Acme Realer.  But the other marble in this post looks quite Akro.  So I want to confirm we have all the marbles straight.  

10 minutes ago, Plutonianfire said:

 

Whoops. Only included backlit photos of marble on far right. The next three were for the presumptive Akro moss agate.

*whew*  

That's a relief!