Steph

I think that Akro is a Prizename, possibly the one with a collector's name of "Blood and Bones". The Peltier is a Rainbo. The closest possible name I can think of for it is a Bloodie. Center looks Jabo.

But that makes TWO of you. So now you're EVEN.

Schweeeeet Congrats!

Seeing Chad's screenshot with the third photo, I have to say cool box indeed!

Master is a good guess. Estimate 1950's. Not Tiger Eye, which is from the early 1930's.

This view looks Jabo-y to me. Also, need to check the base glass on the possible Bruiser to be sure between Pelt and Jabo.

First of all, nice find. For myself, the two color vane is interesting but detracts from the cross-through. I want nice clean separation in my colors. I've seen that kind of coloration on other Asian cat's eyes. I would call it "hybrid". I personally wouldn't use the word proudly in this case. So, nice marble. Hard-to-find style. The hybrid vane on a hard-to-find style might count as "rare" but I don't objectively know how "rare".

If that were American my first choices would be Vitro and Akro. Do we have any reason to think American though?

the pictures aren't working for me.

Yeah. Backlit photos don't always tell the tale. So maybe you still see some orange in hand which isn't showing up in the pic. But without the orange "fire" in the base glass, then no to Realer. I'll go with Peltier though, from the 1930's.

I'm with Pelt. What does the base look like when backlit? If the white base turns orange when light shines through it then we start thinking about Acme Realer.

Here's our standard image of the patent, where someone added the color illustrations. (I don't know who.)

Corks were introduced for sale in the 1930 season. The Akro Spinner cup patent was filed in August 1928.

In the first box I pulled out, I have 17 going one direction, 14 going the other. Not sure which is considered left or right, but both are coming in strong.

Now we all need to get out our Akros and count. I have a firm memory from back before 2010 of being told that members of one of the big marble clubs did the count of their right and left corks and the numbers came out roughly even. *heads up to the attic to find some corks to count*

That sounds right.

I once posted the question about the ratios between right and left. I was told of some group effort by many collectors to count how many they had of each and then combine the results for a large sample. I'm not seeing the link right now but I will keep looking. I am pretty sure the result came in at about 50-50.

More views needed on the front right. I think it might be a cat eye. The other three appear to be West Virginia Swirls. The large size on the front left would make that an Alley.

For big ones, we just know that there are limited choices. If you have a slag that comes in at over one inch, I believe we're looking at MFC, for example. Akro made one-inch marbles, but not in all their styles. Show me a one-inch Akro Popeye or Akro Sparkler and I will keel over. If you have a swirl of that size and it's vintage, you're almost certainly talking Alley. If modern then we look to Jabo or Vacor. The facts aren't that fresh in my mind for Masters. I was very interested in the discussion around the year 2008 and I learned a lot about it, but much of what I have learned has gone from detailed knowledge into general impression mode, if that makes sense. And my general impression was that I would have been surprised to see a Master in those colors and textures at such a large size. And then of course I do recognize the color combo and the Master-like structure as being in the general range of my favorite Vacor, the Sunset.

Okay, it may not yet be settled that the Paul Bunyans are Master ... but yes, there are definitely large Masters.

I wouldn't say unicorn. Just lower odds. I mean, you have the Paul Bunyans. You have the later Sparkler style ones which sometimes were jobbered by Alox. I'm pretty sure I've seen a large one in a 1930's mesh bag. There are definitely large Masters. Not unicorn.

I think with Sunsets it's one of those things which vary over the years or vary from batch to batch. Some look more cheap and obviously foreign than others.

Interesting marble but ???

Here's an old garish pic of my Sunsets. Probably with flash, because I almost always used flash. I need to (a) find my Sunsets (b) get better photos.

At that size, I suspect Vacor.