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I agree, they are being made still every day with old looking logos, names of companies that are no longer in business, ones that are, many say Coca Cola or Harley Davidson or some popular company name just for the sake of selling a marble. Whatever it takes, someone will do it.

Heaton material here. When I dug Heaton, I just shoveled all into different people's buckets. They dumped their buckets out and sorted through it. I didn't, I just took the whole buckets home. So while they went through several buckets to get a few good full ones of sorted material, I just took home lots of buckets and once in a while I'll go out and sort through a few gallons. The dig keeps on going even years afterwards. I have some from Cairo and Alley too. Cullet is such a great teacher. I've gone through a lot of what I have, just haven't cleaned it yet. I do some here and there.

I generally try to mark it not only with the company and town it came from, but who dug it and when if I know those details. Most of what I have, either I dug, Bill McCaleb dug, Ron Shepherd, or Nola Morgan dug. Except for my Akro cullet, It was dug by several folks at different times. The more information you keep with it, the more solid the back story and stronger the provenance. Rockgardenplants... do you think all the cullet was from one location? If it was all stored together, chances are strong that it all came from the same place. Maybe take pics of the pile and see if it looks like it all came from the same place. If so, that doesn't make it so, but might help a little. Some cullet can be attributed to a company, like when there are marbles clumped together in the cullet or very specific colors that are very well known to be from a particular company.

I keep my cullet in boxes or buckets of all the same type. I admit not all is marked, but I have buckets of Alley cullet and Cairo cullet and Heaton cullet, all still unwashed that I keep apart from each other so I know which is which. I guess I should mark them so in case something happens to me, others will know what they are. The washed cullet is in boxes and tubs and marked. You can write the company name on cullet with a sharpie. It will clean off easily if you decide you want it gone.

I don't know how/why cullet gets sold/traded without provenance. Once provenance is lost, cullet can be very hard or impossible to tell where it came from. The provenance is more important than the glass when it comes to cullet. Once the provenance is lost, it can't be learned from or used to help identify and the value of the cullet is gone IMO. That piece, if we knew for sure it was from Peltier, might bring $30-50. But unknown cullet, less than $10. It's important to keep the origin of the cullet with it.

Crazy heavy coverage kokomo. Nice!

St. Mary's ghosts to me.

Agreed, champs.

I agree with the above sentiment. Also the OP are Vitro later all-reds. They varied through the decades.

I agree, but done on a torch, not just polished or buffed. That picture Ric posted shows the area with the evidence of being torched.

Mostly yes. I think bottom right yellow is a Master.

Me too.

Contemp.

The green one isn't a cucumber, they should be translucent/almost transparent green. The last one I'm having problems seeing the colors of.

Agree 100%

Neat, I love how even the little cutout viewer slot is still there from the box. I have two Kayson's boxes, one with Alox marbles I believe, the other has a St. Mary's shooter, Alox transparent swirls, Vitro helmets, and Heaton swirls. I suspect both are full of original contents or mostly original since they match in colors and style. All the Heatons are the same type and color and the Alox marbles are a selection of certain colors with repeats. All appear to be in mint condition (unplayed with surfaces). I think they bought whatever they could from wherever they could and filled the boxes with anything.

I believe I have one like that dug from the Pennsboro Alley site. Otherwise I would have no idea.

I agree with Heaton for all 4.

Glad you like the post! As for not having a big collection... you never know. A marble here and a marble there, one at a time and next thing you know there are a hundred thousand lol. I'll add some more pics in a bit.

Cool! I recently bought a DSLR, I guess I should check into that. Thanks!

Wow, cool idea and a lot of work I assume, but it made for a great photo!

That one is a German handmade confetti.

Here are some other notables. Akros, Veilis, and an Alley.

Thanks Ric, I did a double take when I saw it. I was like, "wait a sec... that's NOT a JABO!!" Another unknown added to the list of Alleys to search for.

Nice one schmoozer!