Steph

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.

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.