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Oh man, glad you are okay now! Good thing you had the presence of mind to go to the ER!!

Vitro here.

I think I have one similar but it's in marble gen-pop, not in a box or tray. I'd have to do some looking to find it. Possibly in dug Pennsboros. I don't have a photo of it on file for sure. And who knows how exact of a match it is, I'm just going by an old memory, and the memory of what a marble looks like can often be a bit different than what it actually looks like. Maybe next time I get a free moment to mess with my collection, I'll see if I can find it. I seem to recall the reddish part being deep trans red with a purplish look and the other ribbon being transparent orange. Could be wrong.

I dug some of the tan base with green ones. Not many but they were there. I agree they are Heaton marbles rebadged after Bogard got the factory. Heaton cateyes look like MKs, Bogard cateyes look like masters and peltiers, for the most part anyway. I've got stacks of those same heaton headers that I took out of the factory office building before it was demolished.

Alley 2x is my vote. Looks like transparent red and orange on white on my screen.

Foreign to me.

RW for me.

Pelt here too.

Vey nice, thanks for the detailed shots!

Yeah generally the masters have a 1/3 width of marble seam and Akros more like 1/2 to 2/3 width seam. Some vary, they aren't always predictable. Master usually has one more U shaped and one more V shaped while Akro usually has both thumbnail shaped or one flat and one curved. Master usually has much more striations from pole to pole. Both can have eyelashes. Master usually has earth tones and a large percentage will have brown at least somewhere. The earlier Masters will have wider seams that look more like Akro and colors that look more like Akro. Later Masters are easier to distinguish normally.

Me too. Here's one I had pics of on file

Definitely a Vacor. That's not a pontil. I can't tell what sort of damage that is from the pics, but this is 100% a machine made marble.

I agree with Master, just got a little off from what we're used to seeing.

Master. They can have more than 3 colors.

Me too, bottles in campfires, melted window panes from house fires, etc... I've metal detected several old home sites where the home burned and found deformed marbles. Many of thos old homes were made of heart pine (longleaf pine) which was full of pine tar pitch and burned very hot. I have the remains of a Pressman Big Shot box of Alleys that was in a fire and all that is left is the melted glob of marbles. Very cool piece hdesousa. The ridges underneath look like quarter sawn wood grain. Here's mine, not nearly as old but same concept.

The only reason I go there is because they don't appear to be CAC, Alley, Ravenswood, or fit well with any other vintage maker IMO. Champion would be the only place I can see them sort of fitting in if vintage.

Vacor comes to mind, the only one I know of similar is Enchanted Forest but the white isn't this strandy in most. I'm not sure what they are.

I agree, good catch, that one is reworked.

Sorry I meant to reply with a picture of the bag with the string and forgot. Years later, here it is. Still the only one known to exist. I don't know if this bag ever made it to retail or not.

I agree, Vacors.

Agreed with Steph.

Alley. He wasn't in Sistersville for long but he sure made a lot of this color combo while there.

That's a Kokomo.

What size are they?

The beauty berry is a very dark, almost black purple base with a lighter purple opaque ribbon in it. Same as the blackberry as far as the base, but the blackberry has a white ribbon. I agree the marble is narrowed down to the best two possibilities. Sometimes that's the best that can be done. I think I lean a little more towards Sistersville but that could change next time I look at it lol.