Steph

I have a dime!

I've got this for "in theory" ... from MFC ... Size 0 through Size 4.

Hi Bud! Welcome! Nice to meet you.

In theory and what you've seen ....

Thanks, Richard, for backing me up. Thekla? You name your spiders, Hoody? How long has she been your neighbor?

Pretty. Looked like a little purple wasp on the bottom right and I was impressed at how you caught it in flight ...

You do need to find someone who will love the set. I hope you find someone who will keep it together and appreciate it as a piece of history. A piece of the life of a serious marble player.

The second marble from the top might be a Moonie. Possibly an Akro Moonie. That would be another of the collectible solid colored ones. If you hold it up to a light does it look orange when you look through it?

I wish I knew what to call those. Are they onyx?

Those are cool. The damage shows that they were well-loved. Sometimes we call them "veterans". Those aren't the only stone marbles in your group.

I always wondered about that. Our marbles do seem lightweight.

There are one or more real agates here. As in stone marbles. Which were prized. Edit: What Ann said.

The red and yellow at the bottom looks like a peltier Rainbo, which might be one of the more modern marbles in the bunch. That style was introduced in the 1930's and made for some time after that. But still definitely vintage.

The red which light gets through easily might be an Akro Flintie, which was a nice marble. And which is one of the collectable solid-colored marbles. I might be seeing a brick. Another of the marbles might be a hand-gathered slag ... or something handgathered. Plus more which look like stone. That actually was a pretty nice little group for a serious marble player.

Hi. Welcome. What a wonderful keepsake. It's too bad that your kids aren't interested. I think that most of the value is sentimental. Closer up pictures -- or a larger version of this one -- would be good. Yeah, some of the brick red colored ones deserve larger photos. Usually solid-colored marbles aren't worth much money. However, the ones we call "bricks" are worth more than average. Close-ups might help us see if you have any of those. Maybe someone else can give a ballpark estimate of monetary value. I'm suspecting it would end up well below $100. But I haven't been in the market in awhile. And maybe close-ups would change minds.

15/16"

me too!

Sure thing. Here's a thread with some more Japanese marbles to look at:

It is cool. The foreign versions are harder to come by than the Peltier versions. At least in the U.S. You might have better luck up in Canada.

Note the "Pelt flip flop" ... which has the white ribbon on one side lining up with the red ribbon on the other side ... and vice versa. That's a great sign of Pelt Rainbos ... for the ones with more than one color of ribbons. They might not meet as nicely as yours do at the seams, but they'll be arranged like yours -- e.g., red over white on the one side and white over red on the other.

That's such a great one.

you know me so well