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Alley 'Bacon' Marble I believe. (Just saw them in Stephen Bahr video with Ron Shepard.)

I'm no expert, but I've been collecting marbles for a while and seen a decent amount of them- and this doesn't look like a contemporary torch made marble. Like Fire mentioned, there is too much wear and the glass colors and quality don't scream torch made to me. But I'm sure over the years nearly every type of marble has been made with a torch. The way the colors stretch and pull together at the one pole could suggest a punty was there as it stands out from the rest of the pattern in the marble, but I don't know.

Thanks to everyone who is spending time to help ID this marble- I appreciate it! The Italian angle is an interesting one. This comes form a recent purchase of mine and I'm confident in saying it is at least 40 years old, as the collection I bought it out of has a simple and clear history from a trusted source. A related question, when people say a marble is "contemporary" what time period does that word mean for those in the marble community?

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like you see the same thing in your marbles. I'm glad I ended up with so many that react- I didn't check for that when I bought them.

No pics, as I'm sure most people know these marbles. My question is, why is there a variance in how much they react to UV light? Does it tell you something about when they were made? I have 6 of them, and to the naked eye the base glass looks basically identical. However, under UV 2 of them glow intensely, 3 lightly glow, and one does not glow at all. My 2 Milky Oxblood's don't glow either, while my 2 Lemonade Ox glow intensely and my Egg Yolk Ox doesn't glow at all. Just curious as to why and what it means. Thanks!

Any idea when it was made?

Ahh... Thanks!

Any idea who made this? It's a completely uniform 61/64 inch. The base glass is a dark transparent green as I tried to capture with the back lit pic. The only UV is the yellow frit that glows orange. It does appear to have a bit of a gathered top as seen in the first pic, but it is definitely machine made as far as I can tell.

Thanks for the feedback. It feels and looks more modern to me too, but I am confident it is at least 40 years old. (Which is still modern, but maybe not contemporary and part of the more recent boom of new handmade torch marbles.) I find no signature on it. When were the Bulgarian torch marbles made?

Here is another from my recent purchase. It was with a bunch of other German handmade latticinios, ribbons, onionskins, etc. The group hadn't seen the light of day for at least 40 years. It comes in at just over 1.25 inches with a single faceted pontil (if I have my pontil id correct). It seems to be in the cloud category, but is unlike any others I have seen. The red really looks to be oxblood in hand. Definitely a cool marble and in very great shape.

Hello, Is your book still available for purchase? I don't want to send you money in advance if it isn't. Thanks!

I recently bought 200 marbles out of a collection of 5000ish. This and the other Greiner marble I posted pics of were among those. I recognized a lot of what I bought, but not everything. I took these due to the fact they were clearly antique handmades of some kind. Glad I did!

I'm certainly happy to have added one to my collection!

Thanks for the info. It does have an egg yolk quality to the color. It is just under 3/4" (.73)

Thanks for the ID help folks. How rare are these marbles? I hadn't heard about them at all and had to do a web search to learn some about them, but even there there is not much info about them.

Thanks to all who helped with the ID! How rare are Navarre marbles? I know this isn't the best example by far, but the company wasn't around for very long at all. Just interested in knowing the rarity of finding one.

Thanks for the help. However it does not glow at all under UV.

Again, I took some pics in the sun per your suggestion Akroorka. The marble is just under 11/16 inch. The pontil is in the first pic. Definitely shows in hand.

I took some pics in the sun per your suggestion Akroorka. Hope it helps. The marble is just under 3/4 inch. The pontil is in the first pic. It looks more polished/smoothed and doesn't show well in the pic. If I understand correctly, the maker would often clean up the pontil on a nicer marble, as opposed to the more 'mass made' handmades. Or maybe it is a transitional and the rollers smoothed it out some? Or maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about... I have some, but not extensive, marble experience and exposure. Thanks for any and all help!

It is a single pontil with an amber base. The white glass is at the surface on about 3/4 of the marble but there is a window in where you can see an off center wispy core. Another who, what, when, where marble.

Here is an interesting one. It is a single pontil and from the top has a left hand swirl and from the bottom has a right hand swirl. The 2 merge together at the equator. The yellow glass also forms a partial core inside the marble. Any ideas on who, what, when, where it was made?

One more Oxblood post. Does anyone know who made these cats-eye marbles with oxblood?

Thanks for the prompt reply Akroorka! And I like the oxblood and egg yolk, Tommy. I just got my first one. Here is a pic along with my 2 lemonade oxbloods.

My first post, just in time for Oxblood August! I just picked up these bricks and am thinking they are either M.F.Christensen or Akro- correct? And how do you tell the difference between the 2 companies? The bigger 2 are 3/4" and the other 3 are 5/8".