Steph

I envy people who are bonded with dogs. I got to babysit four dogs this past week, making many visits to their home. I felt like I made three new friends. The fourth was pretty sad though. All were glad when they were reunited with their mommy. And I went home to snuggle my little kitty girl.

I'm on the Jabo side.

Agree with Imperial. AKA, modern Asian.

I'm wondering about Peltier on the far left. On your second one, the white is solid enough that I wondered about Christensen Agate. [Edit: but I suspect West Virginia swirl] I think West Virginia swirl on the marble you have just highlighted. In spite of the 9, there seems to be a lot of swirling would suggest purely machine-made rather than handgathered.

I don't have a daily marble station! I should build one. I wonder where. We have the attic. The garage. Got one nice brightly lit place in the attic. Have a large garage with a woodburning stove. Could say I want a laundry folding table in the basement, and then could use that for marbles. There's always the issue with the cats knocking things off. Hmmmm ....

Jabo sounds right.

🐘 🥾 Elephant boot? Hmmm ... *thinking* ... hmmmmmm

⚰🦆 After enlarging, I have DEAD DUCK!

Good question! While I'm thinking about it let us enjoy

50 doesn't sound bad to me.

Not sure I understand the question. Yes, there are small cosmic rainbows. I only have small ones.

wow! very nice

Pretty. I expect the glass marble inside also helps in the rounding process and being able to keep control of the pattern.

Aw. Thank you for sharing. Pistol packing Mary? Sounds formidable!

Gorgeous bird!

Hi Lauren! SaaSy picture!

I think Imperial.

I think this group is a combination of Vacors and Marble Kings. Vacor with the white patches which connect in the middle. Marble King with the white patches on opposite ends and black around the middle.

I'm seeing quite a few modern Marble Kings in the initial photos. The ones with the same color patch on either end such as these: Also, I suspect these are modern Marble Kings, though the general pattern can also be found on somewhat older Vitros.

Spoke too soon. One pic remained in one of the old threads. Here's a 1929 machine. Later!

I'm seeing 1929 as the date for the marble vending machine(s) I saw which were actually marked as selling marbles. The ads I saw for the WWII war years were for machines which could be used for either gumballs or marbles and didn't specify marbles on the machine. Soirry, no pix. I tried but the pix disappeared from the old thread I consulted, so I would have to do some digging. And what I'm supposed to be digging for is my address book. Grrrrrr. Just checking in. Later!

I have ads for marble vending machines. A couple were from before WWII. But most are from during WWII and a lilttle after, when there was a shortage of the materials to make gumballs. Gumball machine manufacturers still needed customers so they promoted marble sales to keep those machines in business.

I have one of those. One day a four-color big'un for me.

Thanks! Will check that out.