Nantucketdink

yes I believe you are correct

This one is good. Mexican marbles not cats

1977

1983 packaging

Probably a big Vacor Orca

The Veiliglas wirepulls are nice

Its not like the few 3/4"-7/8" range shooter size Vitro Anacortes Classics were much earlier. There are only a few of them and it just isn't documented what year exactly between 1988 and 1992 they were made (as far as I know). They do not resemble the 5/8" Anacortes Classics anyway. Sure the marble could be an earlier Vitro, just not an earlier Anacortes Vitro.

All of the 5/8" range Vitro Anacortes Classics were made in one run in 1991 or 1992.

I didn't really pay attention to this type of marble until a month ago. MarbleAlan's site has some pretty great info I obviously basically skipped including advertisements possibly showing machine mades. It looked to me like it may have been G. Kuhnhert who made them instead of Seppenhutte. I need to read and look it over some more.

Great info!

H.E. Hopf Marble Factory (Spielwarenfabrik) was/is in Coburg Germany per the Greenberg book. I have no clue about when they began in Germany.

I am wondering how we upheld a US Patent against copyright infringement in Germany back then, unless the high price they paid was our defeat of them in WW2. If they paid a fine that would be on record and would be some great info to find

The "bags" were made in West Germany

Those are Veiliglas in the mesh bags. Those are the very ones bagged by H.E. Hopf I mentioned that caused the confusion Note: I was remembering wrong about the company/jobber who packaged these. Not H.E. Hopf but Shackman.

The only German machine made company I have heard a hint about is H.E. Hopf. They were talked about in one of the marble books. This is the same company that netted some Veiliglas marbles for sale. They caused the confusion about Veiliglas being made in Germany as that is what is written on those mesh bags. I have one of these bags in my collection. They made various clay marbles and supposedly one of the Alley machines made its way to Germany under its ownership. Definitely want to try to learn more about this company to figure out what they made in terms of glass marbles.

Does anybody have any idea about the name of the company that made these?

Who do we believe actually made these? Are these early Veiliglas marbles or made by somebody else?

These two I am posting were sold as old German machine mades. Don't really know how to classify them or attribute correctly.

Paint?

Found a photo of an Alley Pink Lady PATCH. They really did make at least one patch. Next: purple and pink