Steph

Modern Marble King ???

Master doesn't have a slag category. I don't have a name for your marble. It is sort of close to a brushed patch but the white is rather meaty -- doesn't really have the brushed look. If indeed it is a Master, that's what I would call it -- "a Master".

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CAC to me three

Gotta say "Imperial" for purposes of my facebook debate, but cool bags!

Marble King Rainbow I call it a Tri-Color Rainbow. That's not an official company name, but I think maybe I learned it from Bob Block. Classic Marble King. Nice size!

Art and Rick, check out #35 again. I thought agate at first, but then that bottom left view ... that sure looks like the end of a stream of glass to me. I mean it really really really looks like an Agate, moons and all. But this little tail .... Doesn't that look like a tongue of glass right there in the middle coming down from the top left?

That's the direction I figured people would want to go. So I jumped in to hold the line and say "you have to get through me first!" Made on a Pelt machine, of course. But was the machine in Illinois or Indiana? I really don't know.

No. I think Burnt Sunset is closer to clear base and resembles the sunset's red and white ribbons, except some or all of the red would be brown to give it the "burnt" label. How's that for a lot of words when a single picture would have worked?

Christensen Agate. I'm intrigued by the little tail which doesn't go with the tunnel in my mind. But gotta be Chrissy, wouldn't you say? (Is second marble I've seen today with both tail and tunnel ... fascinating.)

Keeper!

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.