Nantucketdink

I grew up in the 70s and 80s and unfortunately the only bag of marbles I had were Asian made coke bottle cats. Hard to believe I even got interested in marbles with that history. However, my mother had a single small jar of marbles that she added to whenever she found a stray that was randomly in our dining room. My Dad had a small container of marbles I never even knew he had stashed away that he gave me after I started collecting.

I believe 1996 on the first 3/4”

I already dated this one as from the 2003 3/4” run when I showed the pic

If there are other makers who made 3/4” swirls with the colors of opaque blue, transparent orange, opaque white, and black/dark gray like this it would be worth sharing pics of them all.

I agree that it is JABO. I love them myself.

Proof not truth, is what I said. You showed an excellent picture of the marble with the others and are positive it is old which means there really is a Time Machine in existence if it’s a JABO.

The top two left marbles are examples from the stage of the 2003 3/4” run of JABOs that created the marbles that look like this. I have no desire to attack anyone’s memories…but I do want JABOs to be correctly IDed/attributed. This exact situation has come up many many times before and I am trying to help without starting conflict. Any chance maybe there was also a Pelt in that size and colors in your collection too? They are similarish. Maybe there is another maker’s marble just like this too in color and size…it’s possible.

As I said, time traveling JABO. There’s the proof.

I believe its a JABO Classic that went through a time warp to Fire1981's childhood. I have heard it so many times it has to be real (time machines).

I believe the specific marble you are asking about is a newer DAS or JABO.

also old pics

old pic

Everybody assumes it is an air bubble, but when you examine it in hand with a loupe, there is actually a peewee sized clearie inside the marble. Received it in a large group from that run. I imagine somebody had to do it on purpose, but don’t know.

I think the two best marbles in the last group are the Asian imperials, but there are several makers in that group

Second group are mostly Champion with a stray JABO or 2.

Yes JABO Blue Boy

Top left is a JABO, but I have never seen an example of that marble at 1/2”. I bet it is a little bigger than that

Yes on purpose but it was considered a fail as the marbles fractured. There are JABOs with various beads on and partially in them. Human remains have been put on/in them. I have a machine made JABO with a separate marble inside it but don’t know the backstory on it. There are JABOs with all sorts of things swirling in them and confettied on them, however, there aren’t really others with trinkets in them like this.

Either Champion or JABO

I believe the right one is Champion

I believe that one is a DAS. You won’t find Vitros with lutz rods stuck in them.

My favorite thing in there of my collection...a copper star inside this JABO machine made

This one is more on the marble than in it

silver BBs hiding in there for real(not air bubbles)