Steph

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.

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