Steph

If no one can find a Vacor name to match to it, it might turn out to be one of the new Asian varieties. 

3 hours ago, Steph said:

Yeah, the vintage-patch-looking  Vacors fascinate me. 

And I still maintain there's a clown out there wearing the name "Master" because it fooled some of the bigger names in marbles. 

Do you ever replay a post in your head when you're not in a place that you can log on and fix it?  

This post should have said a Clownfish  masquerading as a STUPENDOUS Master.  Which is no big deal, right? Happens on eBay frequently, right?  But this misidentified Vacor Clownfish happens to be enshrined on a popular collecting page.  I can't remember the address right now but every time I run across it again I get grumbly. 

Yeah, the vintage-patch-looking  Vacors fascinate me. 

And I still maintain there's a clown out there wearing the name "Master" because it fooled some of the bigger names in marbles. 

Marble King on left. 

I think Marble King is a pretty good option for the right.   I  have a single seam error Marble King bumblebee.  Mine is definitely an error because it isn't round.   

I'll go with "swirl"

Thank you, Al. 

I don't recognize the header.  The graphics don't seem very good.  But it has the seam and the contents match the label.  

@Al Oregon, do you recognize it?

Wow.  This is like an earthquake.  

Hard to imagine anyone who could be more missed than Ron.  

I'm about to cry. 

Note the lack of three-color corkscrews in it.   That doesn't mean the wrong marbles are in the box. 

"Special" was a catch-all name for Akro.  Collectors somehow decided that Tri-Color Agates should be called Specials.  But Akro sold various marbles in those boxes.  

What everyone else said.

Company name: Akro Onyx    

So far I am on the side of Vitro cat.  

wow.  How many vanes?

The vanes are looking quite Vitro, especially with what looks like a count of five, not six.  But that base glass is sending me to the Billes-in-tete page to look for Swamp Thing pictures.  

The Swamp Things don't look that close.

I know Vitro did a cage style cat in Windex-blue glass.   But what else?

I'm stumped.  

 

Vacor cat's eye.

The shredding of the vanes is one of the signs telling me Vacor. 

Top right showing signs of handgathering, but I'm having the opposite problem on this one from the marble I just commented on.  Pretty sure I'm seeing the cutline but that's a weak nine if I'm reading the first view right.  I really have no idea how to choose between makers  for a handgathered slag that might not quite be textbook.  

The one that looks most distinctly slaggy is the top right.  It has a pretty clean 9 in the first view but when I look for the cutline on the other end, I see such random-looking swirling that I'm a bit surprised by it.  Are you able to pinpoint where the cutline is? 

The bottom right is distinctly swirly.

The two on the left are telling me I need to get a refresher on slag versus swirl.  If they're slags then I'm saying Akro.

Because of the thin-ness of the ribbons on the middle one, I could see that one being an Alley.  

I started to wonder about Champ on the outside, but at that size ... I'm thinking Jabo there.

@wvrons ?

@wvrons ?

5 minutes ago, Plutonianfire said:

Here is url showing the translucent base of Vitro wedding cake.

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/gorgeous-vintage-vitro-wedding-cake-3852837008

 

 

That is a url showing a Vitro Conqueror which was misidentified as a Wedding Cake.    

 

2 minutes ago, Plutonianfire said:

It’s completely opaque on the base but I can’t get the photos to show it right now.  Until recently, this marble was underground … probably for almost 100 years. 

This picture appears to show a clear base.  Seems quite revealing.   I think the white is layered over the clear.  I does look like Vitro, but not a solid base.  Okay, well, that's all for me.  I gotta call it quits for the night.  

Those pictures are helpful.  They're showing why I hesitated to agree with Wedding Cake.  The Wedding Cake is supposed to have the "off white base".   Your marble looks as if it has a clear base glass. 

I don't think he's claiming that Champion Puce Swirls is a marble name. 

Puce is just being used as a descriptive word, I'm guessing.  (Am I right?)

Of course, it's not a color name that I'm conversant with.  I had to google for it.  I would just say purple for what I'm seeing on the screen.   


If we can get past the name of the color, does anyone recognize the maker of the marble?

Looks familiar .... 

8 minutes ago, wormie said:

Purchased some drizzles and a double ingot.i believe he said they were akro.love some drizzles!

ZOMG!

Not sure any are slags.  I'm getting a "swirl" feeling on the left and the right.   The middle ... I'm wondering if that's a Peltier Rainbo.  

1 minute ago, Chad G. said:

Not seeing Akro 

Me either.  On the first I could see it possibly turning out to be Akro.  

The second looks like Marble King or Vitro.