Steph

I think the blue one is a Japanese transitional. Same as a slag, but special name for the Japanese handgathered ones.

Happy birthday, Chad!

Yes.

Thanks for sharing. Yes, Akro on the Porcelfrit and Peltier on the comics with the Peerless Patch marble. (There is a modern version of the comics on Marble King marbles but the ones in this thread are Peltier.) KT? Do you know what the initials stand for?

I am seeing one longish, slightly curved seam. Also, now I'm wondering how opaque it is. The new pictures look more opaque than the first pictures were making me think of. Those two things are moving me away from my thoughts of it being Master. The texture of the glass and the large size could still be clues to the right person. If I recall correctly, Vitro had boxed sets of large game marbles.

Not an opinion. Only thoughts. Do you see any v-shaped or u-shaped marks indicating cutlines? At first glance, this appears to have a chance to be a Master Cloudy. I don't know the size range of the Cloudy. I don't see any sizes given in the one ad I know to check. But all the other styles on that ad went up to size 2 at least. So maybe Cloudy did also. Does it have a fisheye? That would be a good size for an Akro Flintie.

Jabo to me.

When I read of your taste buds being bombarded, I still feel positive for you. For some reason I thought your lost of taste sensation might be more permanent, so every time I read that it gets a temporary setback, I'm happy for what it will ultimately be when your treatment is behind you.

Made with Fenton Burmese Glass cullet.

Jabo! And I would hope that it would glow under blacklight. I won't make a bet on it though. I expect the 5/8" ones with that pink to glow. I don't expect the 3/4" ones with the pink to glow. I don't know what to expect on the big ones.

Cold rolls and I don't know what gives it the roughed up look. Maybe it touched something it shouldn't ought to have touched somewhere in the machinery or in whatever thing caught it as it came off the rollers?

The lighting doesn't feel natural so I'm going to hedge here a bit, but to me it looks Vitro for now.

... or folded up Akro cork

Alley to me

That's not ringing a bell with me. Do you have a picture of one?

Some more examples of machine-made Asian marbles with shear marks which are sometimes mistaken for pontils. Seams, cutlines and poles, and photo tips - Marble I.D.'s - Marble Connection

Those are machine-made cutlines, not pontils. The marble-making machinery has shears. The shears cut off the globs of molten glass which become the marbles. That gives a cutline on the top and the bottom of the marble. Or if the glass is more of a stream than a glob like your last marble, it will result in a swirl. There will still be two cuts on a swirl. But sometimes the cut marks will get wrapped up inside the marble so you can't always see it. But with your first two marbles, we have a nice, clear top and bottom.

Welcome to Marble Connection. The first two are modern Asian machine-made marbles. The last is also modern. Mexican or Asian.

The question that you added ... I don't know how to answer it. American handgathered slags could be called transitionals, but aren't. If there are American marbles currently known as transitionals, I'm unaware of them.

The "transition" is from being completely handmade to completely machine-made. The transitionals are half and half.

Transitional refers to being handgathered and machine-rounded. Not a transition to another style of marble. Handgathered American slags could be called transitional, but for some reason we tend to leave the transitional name for the Japanese ones which are basically the same style of marble as the American slags. In my mind I estimate 1930's for the Japanese version, but that's an old estimate I adopted a long time ago. I understand there is new research that may give more precise answers. Maybe someone can link that up for you.

(because it does look handgathered to me even though I can't quite make out a cutline)

I'm trying to decide between American slag and Japanese transitional.

Sunset does seem to be a good possibility. It might be one of those first generation versus second generation situations. That is, whether the color is below the surface in a way that could pass for Master or whether it's on the surface in a way that looks blatantly foreign.