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If you want to learn Alley, I would say you must get the WV Swirls identification book. It has Alleys sorted into the three main production locations, thousands of images of them. It's only available here: https://allaboutmarbles.com/wvswirls/

15 hours ago, Ric said:

Nice one, Chuck. It's got that deep purple and a bit of "whitewash" over some of the striping glass - something more common on the Sistersvilles than other locations, in my experience anyways. Thanks for showing it!

Thanks! Yeah that was one factor, along with the very typical Sistersville flow of the ribbon and the size that made it evident who made it even though I've never seen one like it. It really makes for a nice effect!

Crazy Sistersville 

I agree

CAC to me.

I'm with Fire... conqueror gone wild.

What is confusing? I'd redo it if I knew what it was. Fire was asking at AAM about vitro swirls, then it switched to over here at MC.

Someone put the "confused" reaction to my post, marbles are confusing sometimes  Ask about the part that is confusing and I'm glad to help remove confusion if I can.

11 hours ago, Ric said:

It's not a swirl, it's just swirly.

This^^^^

I said at AAM that Vitro didn't make swirls and then I said some of the vitro shooters got twisted up and swirly and the blue devils often had a flopped ingot which is I guess technically the most basic form of a swirl, but Vitro was not a WV swirl company and didn't make swirls. Now all these "Vitro swirl" posts come after I said that... Some of their patches got swirly but they weren't in the swirl market. Just because a patch type marble setup got out of whack or whatever and made some that got twisted around doesn't make it a swirl, it's still a patch, it just got twisted up. Same as corkscrews... they swirl, right? All the way around the marble, sometimes several times, but they aren't called Akro swirls. They were patches that then got twisted by the spinner cup. Well, some patches got twisted by the rollers instead of a spinner cup.

Oddball, I don't know. 

Weird one. I agree it's the same as the other one you posted.

St Marys Alley

Pattern seems good for champ but I would want to see it be a little smaller and weaker in color. I think Alley might be more likely.

Maybe another couple different views could help.

Seems like RW would be the best fit. Nice bright white too. 

X 2 what Alan said. 

I was strongly considering Jackson but the features in the 1s, 2nd, and last photos, combined with the bit of tannish grey edging pushed me to RW. 

That's transparent cobalt blue slag with white underneath. Looks MFC.

7 hours ago, Melissa said:

Looks like a WV swirl to me.

Me too. RW to me. 

Looks foreign to me. 

Ron's Salesman case of Alleys (these aren't 3/4" though). 

RW seems most likely to me.

Facebook and ebay are the two worst places to learn marbles. You're at the right place, the marble forums are the best (online). In person at shows is even better but we can't always do that.

If it's confusing, to just make it simple, just send payment to paypal. If your shipping address is correct on paypal, we will get it to you from there. The reason we have you fill out the other form is because several people have different shipping addresses or no address on their paypal and this eliminates that problem. What can I do to make it easier or less confusing?

What part is causing trouble? Is anyone else having difficulty ordering or using the process to order?

Champion. The one sided pattern was just due to the random way the glass ran out of the tank. They were just melting glass, letting it run out of a hole in the furnace and cutting the steam into little sections and letting them fall on the rollers, which made them round. No manipulation of the pattern on most swirls.