Steph

Anacortes, Washington Vitro's home from 1989 to 1992.

I've never quite understood what makes a Woody. Not surprising to get that part wrong.

Glass. Pelt. And I want someone to agree that it's a Woody.

National Institute of Standards and Technology? I'm still waiting for the punchline. It's a Pelt, right?

I don't know either. First thought Pelt. But then all of a sudden it looked like Akro. Then it quickly looked Master. I _guess_ I might still be leaning Pelt because of the two-sided-ness of the ribbons.

Today I added to my stack of Chinese Checkers tins. But for now I'm gonna go with @Ric's pic of Lambs in the Pit.

Alley. Alley Superman, I think.

I don't often hear myself saying this ... not ones which are often confused ... but I'm going with "Alley or Pelt".

I'm giving serious consideration to Pelt.

It goes in the "transparent swirl" jar. We smile at the beauty of the transparent swirls in the jar. Then we move on.

Agreed. Alley.

My first thought is Anacortes Vitro for Jeremy's marble.

I'm missing something here. Looks woody to me.

I have some Star Trek marbles like that somewhere.

Yes, very good news.

So far to have to travel for treatments.

I am purchasing a bag of marbles without seeing what's inside. It's a worn plastic Marble King bag ... probably the contents are barely vintage if even that old. And there's no guarantee that the contents are even mostly Marble King. And the condition of the marbles are probably in line with the condition of the bag. It's a middle-aged man's childhood collection. He's a friend of a friend and I'm buying it for a modest price to be a good sport and to show gratitude to my friend for being on the lookout for marbles for me. And it will be fun to see an intact collection from someone's childhood who is about my age. After my offer was accepted, I did say that if the bag turned out to have anything rare in it, I would do right by the friend of the friend. So now I'm fantasizing about what might be in the bag.

Just curious ....

A confident Pelt vote from me.

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.