Steph

sounds good to me

A Tri-Color Agates box posted by Craig Snider. Really I just looked this box up to confirm what I already knew about "Tri Color" getting spelled different ways. (Did I mention marbles are complicated?)

Here are some photos of early 1930's advertising from Dani Kirk. I have larger copies somewhere of this advertising which I really really need to find. But for now: The Ace looks similar to the Prize Name, but the Ace was designed to have a bit of orange fire in a translucent white base when held up to a light while the Prize Name was designed to be an opaque marble.

(There was Akro packaging which said Special on it, but that didn't refer to corkscrews in particular. It was more of a catch-all name for mixed boxes or for less common marbles featured in salesman sample cases.) ((Marbles are complicated.))

Prize Name is an official Akro name. Special is a collector's name usually used for marbles that Akro called Tri-Color Agates. However, collectors have been known to stretch that name beyond the Tri-Color Agates to the point that they will use it for marbles that were intended to have two basic colors but ended up with an unintended third color because of the chemistry of the glass. That appears to be how your righthand marble came to be called a Special by the person who sold it to you.

Prize Name on left and right. The middle looks like a swirl to me. I could see nonswirl possibilities. However, I don't think it is Akro. More pictures should help on that one, a little closer up.

I once made a collage of pink Akros. Because (a) they were uncommon but (b) they did exist.

Chad, there is a non-iridescent Vacor with similar colors and no name that I know of. It was found in assortment nets from the 1990's. I looked hard at some pictures I have of those because the colors are very close but in the end I still leaned strongly Alley. Check out the pictures here: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/11724-new-marbles-which-sort-of-look-old/?do=findComment&comment=107179

awwwwww Happy Birthday.

Berry Pink jobbered both Peltiers and Alleys under a "Marble King" brand label before he started the official Marble King company. The first Marble King factory was actually the last Alley factory. Pink bought it from Mr. Alley. After the Marble King company was founded, Pink continued to use old Alley stock for the first few years before his distinctive Marble King company style was perfected. So depending on the bag and label design, there could have been a couple of paths for big Alleys to get into Marble King bags.

My first thought was Alley so it has been interesting to read the give and take in this thread.

The base looks too dense to me for me to think of "opal". But does the base have fire inside?

I'm thinking American slag with impurities.

They don't look familiar to me. I'm supposing Vitro but can't even guess which decade they would be from. Totally unaware of any collector's name they might have.

Not Buttermilks. Here's a picture of Buttermilks. Need "buttermilk yellow" and blue along with red stripes. Older Vitro Marbles (Tri-Lites) (marbleconnection.com)

I'm so confused.

Add that here! https://marbleconnection.com/topic/22000-marble-innards-lets-see-your-innards

wow!

Light, eh? Surprising. I was only going by the look. I don't recall if I was ever told what was inside them. If they're the ones I heard about from a reputable collector, they have a different origin than the magic marker marbles. I remember hearing of a marble which was originally sold on ebay without any fake story with it. Then later people may have started telling sketchy stories about it. For some reason I associate that ebay offering with those enamel looking marbles. But it's all very vague in my mind.

Modern glazed marbles, posted by Dani

I wasn't sure I'd be able to find that photo ... heading out now to put it in a place where I'll remember it.

Here's a picture Dani posted of the glazed modern marbles that I'm thinking of.

(The crazing makes it look like the magic marker marble ball mill balls at least ... is it heavy like the magic marker marbles are?)

I'm going with a used ball mill mall of indeterminate age which was decorated in modern times.

Looks like a purple and green mix forming the black ... which I know I should recognize. I need to start making notecards!