Steph

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It keeps growing when I'm not looking http://marbleconnection.com/gallery/category/2-members-gallery/?st=40

My contribution: Circa late 50's

nice detail gorgeous marble

Gotta say Imperial. What beautiful coloring.

Oh wow. Nice grab.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

Gotta be red, white and blue!

Wonder if I can find one of those ends which looks like a 4 instead of a 9 ......

Thanks bunches!

The one on the left looks old. And I see why you think it looks different. I remember discussion about Akro "9"s not looking so much like 9's. Maybe more like 4's sometimes? I definitely see why you might think Akro here:

Yes, anything that the marble books might call a pontil and the new collectors would be hoping to find on their marbles.

Thanks. I'm having fun. Hope you are. Don't wear yourself out. Have a good evening.

#5 is looking like a Vitro Conqueror which may have spent some time in a fishbowl, giving it a matte surface. #2 is looking sort of Vitro-y to me but I'm hoping for a second opinion

I bet they are. This is a crash course. 12 different ones is a lot for one thread. Even experienced eyes get tired. I'll give 'em a shot. I'm only about half done but hitting enter now to save. Will keep looking at the other marbles and may fill in some more blanks. [Edit: Okay, I've made all my guesses now.] 1. I think this is a Vitro. 2. More views, please. 3. Marble King Rainbow (Note the MK Rainbow is spelled with a "w" on the end, while a Pelt Rainbo is spelled without the "w" ) 4. Strange Marble King? 5. I do not know. More views might help. 6. Peltier Rainbo 7. Peltier Banana (a type of cat's eye) (there are non-Peltier bananas also so I won't 100% say this one is Pelt but put your bananas together for awhile and treat them as Pelts) 8. Master Marble. Might be called a Sunburst. 9. Vitro Tiger Eye 10. Peltier Rainbo 11. West Virginia swirl 12. West Virginia swirl? (I'm not sure this one is vintage. If newer, then I'd say Jabo.)

Very shapely

I started a thread to try to get some pontil photos gathered in one place so you and other new collectors can have something to compare to. Nothing there yet, but peek in a little later. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/20970-pontils/

Do we have a good thread all about pontils? I haven't updated my links in awhile. Anyone want to take a shot at photographing pontils to post here? Fancy ones are cool. But standard ones would be good too. So we can show this thread to new collectors so they can know what to look for. Not everything has to be close-ups. Showing the whole marble would be good too so that folks know what kinds of marbles they're likely to see pontils on.

The surface is odd on this one. Can't see clearly inside, but what I do see looks like that could be cat's eye vanes. Again, no pontils. I think chips.

This one sort of looks like it could be old. Might be seeing signs of it being a "bullet mold" marble. However, those look like large hit marks rather than pontils.

I got this one split off okay. Lesseee ... looks like you have a lot of Clearies in this batch. Transparent marbles which are essentially one color are Clearies. They have other names, such as Puries. But I say Clearies. Clearies will occasionally have slight color variations within them. Still Clearies. They're not a high value marble, but they're attractive and once upon a time they were very popular. I like 'em. The ones with the white swirling around in them are called Transparent Swirls. Both Clearies and Transparent Swirls are so hard to pin down to maker that most people don't even try. Sometimes you get a little extra hint and people might try to do it for fun but mostly they get lumped together. #2 might be a Champion Agate, but that's just a guess. Your clearies have seam structure, but your transparent swirls might not. If you actually do see clear seams on the ones with white ribbons, then they're probably some other type of marble -- not transparent swirls after all -- and closer-up views showing the seams and ribbon structure could help. You say ground pontil on #5 and two pontils on #11? How about some more views of those. Closer up. Transparent marbles can be very tricky to shoot. Some have had success by taking the pictures with the marbles immersed in a bowl of water.

Do put this one in with the Moss Agates. Could be Master. Still a Moss.

Nooooooo! *panicked wail* Start a new thread with each new set. Haven't looked at the pix yet. 12 is sort of a lot of marbles for a thread, but if they're similar enough, it will be okay. Before I look at the pix, I'm breaking this new set off into a thread of its own.