Steph

This is one of my favorite topics.      

Here's some Master advertising from different decades with a variety of names.  





These two are scanned from American Machine-Made Marbles.    I have "1951 or later" on the first and  "1963 or later" on the second.  

I get  pretty big images by clicking three times.









 

Vacor seems right for that size.  Not aware of anything else it could be.   I don't see it on Billes-en-Tete, but I suppose it's possible that there are varieties which didn't make it to Billes yet.

Or how big do those Chinese ones get which look like Vacors?

Sweet box.  Yes, it certainly makes sense for a Cairo company to go with an Egyptian theme. 

54 minutes ago, ann said:

Tasty eye candy.

C`mon, Steph, saddle up!  

Here's an eye candy dish I posted in another thread in 2020.  

A lot of nonmarbular stuff in there. 


 

With so many of this unusual marble, I can't help wondering what other marbles came with them. 

Yup, that's the "vibe". 

When I was trying to figure out Master tiger eyes, people would talk about a potato chippy structure.   Took me awhile to see what they were seeing. Now maybe I see it too much!  But, yeah, that's the vibe I was picking up.

3 hours ago, Ric said:

The ones with orange and white look like Du-Lites to me.

That would be cool.  

The thing that made it looks sort of Mastery yet early than their cat's eyes was the potato-chippy  structure I was seeing in places.  Such as:

Brain racing.  Went from Peltier Banana to Master Cat to Master earlier-than-cat to Akro.

Gonna sit on Akro for a bit.  

I think a good chance of it being Vacor.  The bubble pop would be consistent with that.  

Here are three I have in my files, two with bubble pops. 

The first one has no bubble pops  visible but I have a liking for it because I know it came from a Vacor assortment bag, from before the named bags started becoming a big thing.

My first thought was also Jabo swirl.

Here's the Tricolor Agates box which came into the discussion on Facebook.   From a Morphy auction, but through a different website, so I couldn't get a bigger photo in my brief attempt. 




And here's a similar more patchy one that I have. 







And my apologies to Ben for being so late in getting to this thread.    Thanks for the tag, @William   

I'm all in on it being Pelt.  I think the translucent base on the patches tends to be later, but still in the 1930's.  

Such a big piece to make such tiny details in the cat's eyes.

Fascinating.

love 'em

1 hour ago, Leigh said:

I believe this is a German St. Joseph's Coat - at least that is what I was told on a FB page, but I am wondering if some of the larger red stripe would be considered oxblood. 

 

You are asking the question in a perceptive manner.  At least part of the red seems translucent, so that would not be oxblood.  But I couldn't swear that none of the red is oxblood.    Hard to say.  I'm leaving the door open.  

whizzer ... ha  ... hope everything comes out okay

Oh it looks Jabo to me.  Just clean and sharp.    

What is the size on the second one?

I'm still going with Vacor on that first one based on colors and texture, but this view makes it look like it could be more of a folded cat's eye than a swirl.    

I'm considering that the bottom might be vintage, but I don't know what it would be if vintage.  

Rick was posting while I was looking at the Billes site for which Vacor style the first one would be.  Maybe a Sunflower.

The shades seem to not be quite matching, but the Vacor Sunflower has orange, brown and yellow in clear, which is what I _think_ I'm seeing in the first marble here.  

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That red and yellow is classically beautiful.

I generally tag Josh when I want help with Jabo dates.

@Nantucketdink

My memory has gotten so bad that

Still no sun to speak of but I won't wait any longer.  Picture came out pretty well in spite of the clouds. Lutz on two. Mica on one.   I uploaded a big pic, so if  you click enough times on it you can get some good detail.