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Alley here too.

I do see several if not all that appear to be Red Ravens.

Hard to see in the pics, but the plates and the brass case are angled at maybe 45 degrees. I suspect to deflect impact somewhat, to make a straight hit into a glancing hit. I showed Ron the ones from Cairo, knowing what they were, and he verified. This pic shows it better:

They were stacked, layers of glass with layers of that celluloid between them and glued. The celluloid is badly discolored and you can see how it deteriorated from the edges towards the middle as it was in the ground, until it finally came apart. Ron had the whole assembled unit. A little different shape but on an angle, as you can see the edges of your glass plates are also angled. In one pic you can see the many layers stacked together to make the viewer.

Vitrolite made them. I saved a lot of them from Cairo but when they dried out they came apart. Vitrolite made them for the war effort. After the war, they were sold as scrap cullet and Cairo bought it to make marbles.

Nice Chris, the "sheets" are laminations of bulletproof glass made for WWII tanks by Vitrolite.

I've done a few. Here's one of the first I did.

They can be tough when they get big like this. MK or Akro? Looks veneered?

Agreed. Chad is on it!

X 2, onionskins. Nice!

I agree w/Vitro. No name that I know of. An older one, closer to the trilite era.

Ric, I never met you face to face but I know you were close, Ron has spoken well about you many many times. You, Ron, and Bill, the Three Amigos. Nola told me and my wife Val about that tonight. You lost Bill and then Ron in such a short time frame A lot of people know about Ron and how he was so willing to help with marbles but he truly was a good man on every account. Like Nola said, he didn't just know marbles. He knew about toilet flush valves, carburetors, tractor hydraulics, plastics and composites, you name it. He remembered names, events, and details that even I, at a younger age could not recall. "Sharp as a tack" was a term that fit Ron to a Tee. He knew this reality was a possibility and prepared for it. He has influenced my life as a person who I want to emulate in many ways. I'm sorry for your loss, I wish there was something better to say than that. I feel for you. I feel for Nola.

Fire, do you know what that is? It's a match safe! Back in the days before you could put a bic in your pocket. Cool piece! Marbles made match safes, knives, gun sights and other stuff back then.

I looked at this one two or three times before now and JABO really is the only thing that settles well with me. Could it be something else? I guess so, but I don't know what. I do know that somehow JABOs end up in old collections from people's grandparents, collections from the 40s, etc... and there are a million ways it can happen. If it's not JABO, at 3/4", Alley would be the next most likely maker by far, and I just don't see Alley in it. Alley is my focus, so although I may not be right all the time, I do feel like I have a pretty good familiarity with them. Process of elimination... 3/4" is too big for Heaton, Jackson, Davis, Champion (except for the New Old Fashioneds which this is not), and very unlikely Ravenswood. Some Cairos were that big but not this pattern and glass. It's not Pelt IMO, so I'm sticking with JABO.

a few more to add

Thanks Chad, those last three are mine, I got them all at once and figured I can stop looking now lol. Chalkies are so cool!

Some cool stuff in this thread! Another, this is a Honeywell Brown Electronic furnace tank temperature chart recorder. It's from the Heaton/Bogard factory, old enough to have been used by Heaton. Also in the last pic is a Heaton cateye injector insert that would be used to put the 4 vanes in cateyes. Ron is holding it in this photo.

Agree with JABO on this one too.

I can't rule out JABO from the pics I see, especially at that size.

I'd say late Alley on all 3.

Maybe the outlet end of the tank from Heaton agate

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I get Akro here too.

Right, that's loads of damage, not mica. Probably old slags beat to heck. They have been to battle a lot!