Steph

Crazy weerd. I guess I mighta thought of doing something like that ... if I hadn't heard very early on, on this forum, that some Pelts don't like harsh cleansers. Mighta learned it from you.

Here's an old pic of some of my Joker 2's. I was told that was a blood viper in the middle. Dark marbles which need sunlight to bring out the color as I recall. Pretty sure no blue cobra in hiding among whatever others I have, but I'll have fun checking my small lot.

I think Alley. I used to think Champion, but then someone told me Alley. So Alley or Champion.

Red and white is kinda hard to pin down. Just a thought on photos -- you have the marbles lined up so that they go across the width of the picture instead of the length. You you reoriented them, they could make better use of the camera screen. Also, of course, if you could crop that would be good too.

Let me change that to "maybe Vacor". I'm not getting a clear handle on the ribbon structure.

I'm thinking Alley, Vacor, and then a second WV swirl but not oxblood.

I'm thinking a WV swirl .... but whose?

hmmmm

What part is glowing under blacklight? The base? The white-ish ribbons? Something else? If the white ribbons then I'm going to cross my fingers and make a wish and my wish will be Jackson.

I like Master for the two on the right. On the top left I first thought Master but then I decided to sit on the fence and use a magic marker to trace out the cutlines. On the bottom left, I like Akro.

I sure wanted to agree with Vitro but with that spongy white baseglass with the little bitty bubbles I can't rule out Akro. Here's a different Akro Tricolor box I recently saved. David Snow posted it. Tricolors were sorta my thing. I saved every picture I could find. And backed them up on disk a couple of computer changes ago, back when I used CDs to back up. And then lost every one of my backed up files that started with S or T.

That's what I was thinking about thinking about when I started reading your thread. With a label like "nuggets" the prize inside might have been iron pyrite or dyed polished rocks, maybe something to go with the theme of a mining town's souvenir stores.

This site is calling them bingo balls ... which kinda misses the point of "b-i-n-g-o" https://talorton.com/products/bingo-balls-large

Cool find!

I'm still between Akro and Peltier, and still with the sense that I would like to see more views of it, to figure out the shape of the borders.

Welcome! What's not to love about Vitros?!

Size points toward Alley if vintage or Jabo if modern. And I am comfortably inclined toward vintage. So, yes, my final vote is for Alley.

Alley seems a good candidate to me. What is the size?

What size? West Virginia swirls, but whose? I'll just welcome you to the forum and wait for a swirl guru to show up.

Not sure they're all the same maker. Top right is darker tan and ribbons are lighter green and more opaque than the ones on the left. Bottom right is lighter green and also more opaque than the left four, and does that bottom right base glass have a bit of green tinge? Does this matter? I do not know. I remember for a long time being confident that the tan and green combo at the top right was Alley, but then having to erase that confidence when someone else such as Ron firmly identified one as something else. Was that something Heaton? Ravenswood? Jabo? I do not recall.

@Nantucketdink

Prices are wildly distorted on Facebook. The first 5/8" classics auction I pulled up in my search results just now was a lot of 10 which went for $18. Facebook is the place to go if you want to get people to pay $5 + $6 s/h for what we think of as a 10 cent marble.

My favorite Jabo Classic is the boulder-sized Green Eggs and Ham. From 2006? I think I paid six bucks apiece for four. Coulda had them for less -- they were coming up often from one particular seller on Facebook -- but I wanted to head off the competition and get it over with and not wade through more auctions. I have seen the 5/8" lavender Jabo classics made with fluoresent Fenton Burmese Glass cullet also go for a few dollars apiece. That was this past year. In 2016, I sold some lots with misshapen and blah-colored marbles from two of the 2008 investor runs and was getting a lot of interest. The two runs were Last Dance and Tribute to Friendship. People were even snatching up the lots which were exclusively boring blues and browns, at I guess an average of 50 cents apiece. More interesting colors were probably closer to $1 apiece. And these were all from my jars that I had called "cullet" when I had them in storage. Some of the flaws were small and many coulda been sold as decent marbles but I didn't want to re-sort. It was all gravy to me. I still had my higher grade trays which I was sorting through in order to assemble my keeper boxes. In one stand-out listing from the 2008 runs, I listed a group of three peewees which did come from one of my better boxes. I had it for a buy-it-now of $30 if I recall correctly and that was taken fast. Chatting with the buyer I learned that it was one particular peewee in the group which made him take it. That made me decide to hold off on offering more of those at that time. Merely on what I was calling "cullet" I had already gotten enough money to pay the down payment for the house we were buying and that seemed a good stopping place, since I needed to pack everything up for the move! There were other more interesting marbles that I was considering parting with from my keeper set, which I showed to someone who asked for photos of what I had. I was preparing to sell him some nice ones for a few dollars apiece, but then he put a requirement on the sale which was a deal breaker. I was glad to end that interaction because I didn't really want to part with those at that time. If I ever sell those I will take my time and ask nice dollars. I think I could get $50 or more apiece for some of my very best. I have smaller selections from many more runs, which were gifts. These will stay with me for a long time.

My brain is mushy right now but I'll say Vitro at top left and Akro for the rest.