Steph

What a fabulous whatever it is!

Beautiful

I have seen single-color opals. But not sure about red. For some reason I'm remembering orange as the color for the single-colored opal I saw. My memory for colors is truly horrible, as in something could be blue and white striped and I might remember it as solid green -- so don't put much stock in me thinking of orange for that other marble. I objected at first to the single-color opal being called an opal, but somewhere along the way I got the idea that Chuck B. was okay with the designation and I quit worrying about it.

Ah, yes. Hematite?

At 1" I would have thought Alley before Peltier. But Ron the WV swirl guru is in this thread already and he didn't question Peltier, so I guess I'm wrong.

Very nice Peltier Rainbo.

size?

With an iridescent finish and the size, these would probably be modern and nonAmerican.

With the irregular patch shape, I'm keeping Peltier Acme Realer in play. Let's hear what others say though.

I like how you're thinking. I think I see some grain also. So, yeah, Jeremy, check for opalescence. Then maybe Peltier Acme Realers, or maybe someone might see them as Vitro Opal.

Vitro on the left. Possibility of Jabo on the right but the brown ribbon is thin enough that I leave open the possibility of it being a West Virginia swirl.

A bat is now my favorite sulphide.

Jabo

First guess deleted. I had too many windows open and got the size wrong. That looks like it's trying to do an Akro cork pattern. but with that much color and that much shininess I suspected a newer maker, especially when I thought it was your .91 inch marble. Then I saw that it's smaller, so now I just don't know.

I feel like I must have missed something. But I've been feeling like that all day!

At 3/4", shiny, and amorphous, isn't Jabo an obvious first choice?

Hi Jon. Welcome. That's an interesting question. I'll move this thread over to the main chat area to get more people pondering it.

Tommy, if you mean joemarbles.com, that was a different Joe. Sadly, Joe Street is no longer with us.

Looks like a survivor of a Quentin Tarantino movie.

I've watched you from a distance, beaming quietly. ❤️

I beat you! Not even any red.

Size? Without knowing any extra info, I'm thinking Jabo. If it's near an inch, then I'm hardcore thinking Jabo.

If they're vintage, i.e. pre-1970, then odds are Alley for large swirls. (If newer than 1970 than that basically jumps one up to the 1990's or later and gives you Jabo or Vacor, but most of yours do look older.)

The first might be Akro ... looks like it might be trying to cork.

Interesting. I guess I'm not too worried by it. If I get back to selling on eBay I'll just be happy if I ever get over $600 again in a year. I did at least once -- had a couple of months of sales in 2016 and the total exceeded that. But just the sense that eBay keeps changing things ... even if I don't know about recent changes ... drags down my motivation to get back to it.