Steph

Yes, of course it does look Pelty.

I know what people are going to want to say. What does it look like without the backlighting?

1. If American, it might be an Akro slag. The fingernail polish texture of the white makes me think it might be nonAmerican though. 2. A "clearie". Practically impossible to narrow down to any one company. A popular marble back in the day. The Vitro Agate version of clearies helped save their company in the 1950's when Asian cat's eyes were having such a large impact on the American marble market. 3. Interesting. One longish skinny patch? I'm considering Peltier, but don't have a strong feeling about it. 4. A real stone marble. You can see from the many moons in it that someone played with it a lot. 5. I would call this another clearie, even though the backlight shows intersting color variations. 6. While this has similar coloring to #4, it appears to be glass. Whatever it is, it looks special to me. I'm thinking it could be an uncommon style from whatever company it turns out to be from. 7. Master

1. I'm leaning Christensen Agate (CAC) here. 2. The one clear seam that you are showing makes me think Master here. #3 and 4 are swirls which I generally leave to others. There were many West Virginia companies which made swirls, and a couple of U.S. companies in other states. Alley Agate was one of the most prolific of the West Virginia swirl companies. #4 could be an Alley.

Pretty sure this is also an Asian cat's eye. I would be surprised if it turned out to be Vacor. (Vacor is Mexican.)

That "caged cat's eye" is also Asian. I usually refer to Vitros as being "caged cat's eyes". I would call yours an Asian marble. I wouldn't even generally call it a cat's eye. Just an Asian marble. But yeah, sure, I'll go with Asian cage style cat's eye.

My first thought was Marble King. I'm not inclined to go with Vitro. And my first impression is also that it would "modern" side. But which decade? I don't know. "Modern" goes back pretty far now. That's a really big marble. Maybe that would be a clue to someone for how old it might be.

Yes nice. I am hurrying scurrying and can't think of a name right off. Just wanted to let you know I admired!

I'm not sure what to make of that Danone. Mothra's #21 is a Vitro cat's eye. Your marble ... might be Vitro, but might be foreign. The print looks like some old advertising marble print, but I'm guessing it's newer. What I can't guess is whether it would be properly affiliated with some official Danone brand or whether it would be from one of the companies which does unlicensed branding. I don't remember ever seeing this one. I like a good mystery.

We have three open threads right now, the original and parts 2 and 3. People have commented in them, so I don't want to delete. Let's just go on from here. People can still comment on your originals. And you can add new threads with new marbles. There are often a few hiccups as a new person gets their rhythm going. Don't worry. Let's just look ahead.

I broke your original thread into three parts. Trying to put them all into one thread gets very complicated very quickly. More people are likely to feel comfortable helping out if you have shorter threads. Let's have Mayonnaise Jar, part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and so on. As I mentioned above, about six marbles per thread would be manageable. Just something we've learned from years of trying to help with ID's. Thanks.

Very interesting. Things one doesn't think about until suddenly one is required to. A little advanced preparation for any one reading who might someday have to go through something similar.

Numbering certainly helps. However, long threads still can get overwhelming even when the marbles are clearly numbered. All that scrolling up and down. Six marbles per thread would probably be a good number. Feel free to start as many threads as you want.

Gotta go with transitional With a handgathered marble, one can usually identify a "top" and a "bottom" of the marble. A "nine and tail" on one end and "cutline" on the other end. I think the top left image here is your cutline. I still can't say I see the the nine-and-tail part. But can't think of anything else it would be. Sticking with Japanese transitional.

Could be accidental oxblood as a byproduct of the green glass colorant.

This is compelling. If you don't remember Vitros in Imperial packaging, that means a lot. Yet my memory is so vivid on this. A puzzle.

Size can help a lot with some marble types. With the very large and very small, the size can quickly narrow down the number of likely manufacturers.

I think I'm seeing a Japanese transitional on this one. From the early 1900's. It's like an American slag but is distinctive enough that we can tell it is Japanese. I would actually like to see a couple more views to make sure it is handgathered as I expect it is. But the glass texture and color are making me pretty confident about my guess.

^^ some nice vintage marbles there. Yet, I still lean toward the green one being a modern marble. I'd guess that it was included in the mix because that's what most people would do -- put all their pretty marbles together in their one special marble place.

^^ that's different and special because the marbles do come in the packaging. They're exceptional and it's reasonable for them to be identified in an exceptional way, such as Imperial Vacors or Vacor Imperials. But if we call just any loose generic Vacor an "Imperial Vacor" ... well, that doesn't make sense to me.

My argument is basically that if the maker of the marbles is well-known we shouldn't call them Imperial. At least not if we find them loose, without being in an Imperial pacakge. Most of the marbles that we are calling Imperial probably didn't even have the Imperial company's help getting to their destination. But we call them Imperial because that's one well-known distributor's name that it's handy to use because we don't know who actually made the marbles. So when we do know who made the marbles -- whether Vitro or Marble King or Vacor -- we call the marbles by the manufacturer's name and then comment on how cool it is that we can find them in Imperial packaging as well as in the better known avenues of distribution. At least that's the custom I expect. Expanding the Imperial name to cover a plurality of modern Asian marbles was already a stretch. To now extend the name Imperial to Vacor with or without Imperial packaging attached ... this seems to me to be an unfortunate extension of a name which was already a misnomer. But beyond that argument, I have a person who just doesn't believe me that Vitros were ever in Imperial packaging at all, so that's my first step here.

I think Imperial. A modern Asian marble. Possibly made in the 2000's. Possibly a little earlier.

Thanks, yeah, that's where I got the reminder about MK. Shouldn't be so hard to find pix, but if I have them myself then I'm probably going to have to hunt up my DVD drive and struggle with the sluggish searches through my back-up disks.

I'm trying to remember where I would have seen the Vitro marbles in the Imperial packaging, so I can figure out what search terms to get to the picture. I'm surprised by what a big blank I'm drawing in my search attempts.

P.s., I have just read that they also had Marble Kings in Imperial packaging. So, either picture would do. Vitros or Marble Kings.