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Tommy, we've got those pinned down as St. Marys Alleys. I really like that color combo, also look for a bluish grey added with these colors for an even harder to find color combination!

Have you heard of the Vitro sulphides? In the 1980s, Vitro in Anacortes did an experiment, trying to make machine made sulphides. They made figure heads of Spiderman, He-Man, Skeletor, and I think Superman? They then attempted to color them and make marbles with them. The experiment failed because they weren't annealed and cooled rapidly as a machine made does, and they fractured. Don Miller (RIP) gifted me a head and had some encased in glass by Ray Laubs and he gifted one of those to me as well. Notice how much bigger the head looks inside the marble this shows how small the figure inside a sulphide really is without the magnification of the glass. Rare and special part of my collection from a rare and special person and I will share it now as he entrusted me to share it with the community. This figure is Spiderman. Oh, and those are Vitro Blue devils underneath plus a strange variety with green on the same blue cobalt base and then the 1 1/4" house of marbles machine Vitro Cosmic Rainbow to the left.

Not seeing JABO. Second is Alley. Not sure on the first. All that background stuff reflecting on it is messing with me.

Look at the one Dave 13 posted. Crystal clear base. That's required for the name. That's the only Blue Colorado in this thread. Just commented because I'm seeing others elsewhere calling regular MCRs Blue Colorados now and want to point out that the Blue Colorado is a very hard to find marble. These tinted MCRs are common and not the same thing at all.

Good thing they didn't name a marble "chrysanthemum"!

I came here to share this if it wasn't already. He was a great guy, top shelf among humans. I will miss him. We just talked a few days ago and were getting excited about the Marbles on the Beach show coming up in a few weeks. I could go on but those who knew him already know. Until we meet again Don.

Rust ring from sitting in a coffee can. I clean them off with steel wool if the marble is worth cleaning.

That one looks to be over an inch and wet if not polished and real. If so, that's not a $15-25 marble. Probably not $200 though.

JABO to me.

That German is the only thing I see with any significant value but it also is questionable to me. I'd want close clear detailed photos, especially of the pontils.

Nice Alley

JABO to me.

I'd put it with Champion. Alox is a possibility as well, as I've seen similar from them in packaging but they were known to buy from other makers quite a bit, probably more (percentage-wise) than any other swirl maker.

What if we split the difference and say Heaton?

Alley here.

Not an easy one to find. We have this one filed int he Ravenswood section of the book. Best we can tell anyway, this was a hard one to put a maker on but we all came to the same conclusion. The pattern sure fits. Good call Davesnothere.

Agreed, Sistersville Alley. Nice when they get that ghostly purple wash over the red, a sure sign of Sistersville. As soon as we can get someone who can accurately print the book, it will be in production. The book is complete, we've had it printed by two printing companies and both produced dark photos. The photos on the digital copy are great, but the book photos are too dark. The website for purchasing a book is already up on the host but not visible publicly until we get a print that meets or exceeds (doubtful) our expectations. We put a lot, and I mean a LOT of hard work into this book and we're not letting it out with our names on it unless the quality is high. Here's a look at the cover and spine

This type CAC

CAC is where I was going with that. JABO was in Reno.

Meaning Cambridge.

Looks like an Ohio swirl to me.

I don't recall not liking any marble? This one looks Vitro to me.

I agree

Nice! I'll play along with a favorite Ravenswood too.

Thanks Ric, yeah keep and eye on those game marbles... would hate for a lavender MFC to get tossed out with the bathwater. Great backlash there too! This might be my favorite Champion, or one of them.