Steph

Yeah ... I know I'm duplicating your searches. I think maybe the last time I saw the game, I just saw game pieces and maybe we didn't know the name of the game. So, anyway, it's good to see a name.

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/pages/object.aspx?oid=72465

I don't know how to translate these pictures, but it is kids playing .... http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/12920756.Playing_detective_to_remember_lost_games/

I have heard of that before. Maybe only once before. That makes me hopeful though that someone else might be able to help.

Yay! LOL ... seriously .... that's comforting. Since I don't love misnaming marbles but I kept calling them Vacors.

These look like Vacors, made after 2000. Vacor is a company in Mexico. (The company has a new name now -- Fabricas Selectas -- but Vacor is easier to remember.) The style name was Spaghetti. Vacor Spaghettis -- nice name, eh?

This style is a "cat eye". Are you familiar with that term?

As to value, they don't have substantial monetary value. So you have leeway in collecting them for sentimental reasons or giving them to children who would appreciate them. In years to come they could become more collectable. But mostly these are for standard enjoyment -- looking at or playing a game.

Well, they're almost all modern marbles. Might be one or two which could be id-ed as vintage. By modern we mean made in 1970 or later. Many were made since 2000. Basically it's a nice assortment of marbles made mostly outside the U.S. The first pic in the gallery looks American. Post-2000 Marble King Rainbos with an acid wash to make them frosty. As I said a nice assortment follows, including at least a couple I haven't seen before but which I have to assume are modern. It's always cool to see unusual ones from outside the U.S. The two which stood out to me as good chance of being vintage were #2 and #3 in this photo:

I'll go check those out now. Here's a link for anyone else who wants to join in: Sara's Gallery

Thank you, John! I love it all, even the parts that are over my head -- for now. Talk technical to me, baby!

It totally looked felt like it should be a Nova family member to me but I didn't want to say it. I looked up some pix thinking I would find it there but I didn't see that combo. Time to do some more looking and some more asking.

Ahhhhhhhh ...... What a lovely universe

I'll put in a preliminary vote for Peltier. Just a hunch.

Hello Sara, sorry for your loss. We'll try to help as well as we can. It might be easier to load them to the gallery than to the attachments if you don't know how to resize them.

psychepeeweedelic

I keep trying to have an epiphany based on cool rate of the interior and amount of surface area. But nothing happens when you try to force an epiphany.

Peltier Multicolor Rainbo. Probably from the NLR era -- i.e., early 1930's.

Yes! I have so wanted to see a box with that name! (And thank you, John, as always for the beautiful bump.)

And though she be but little, she is fierce. ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Will is okay with it. So I'm okay with it.

What is wrong with "though"? Seriously. Not just taunting the curmudgeon.

Hi. I think maybe nice Alleys.

Can practically feel myself out in the leaves ....

The classics began in 1991, iirc.

I'm leaning toward Jabo on the second. But red and white are so tricky. Any particular reason to think it is older?