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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!

I don't know who made the first one, it could be foreign. Looks like blue AV? Master made some I believe, but not the swirly types. MK made some with heavy AV too I think. The swirl ones are still debated but mostly attributed to Champion, although that would be about the only marble they ever made with intentional AV if so, which is odd. Plus many were big for Champion. The solid black AV non-swirls could possibly be from Pelt.

They are only unopened once. They don't make them anymore. I've seen people open bags of tiger eyes and rainbos just to see the new common shiny marbles. Those marbles that are worth 50 cents each if you can find someone willing to pay that. But the still-sealed bags have the value. They keep on getting opened and one day there will be so few left that the value will be up there even for the more common stuff.

..........no words right now. Been on the phone and this is still such a shock. From doing yard work to gone in minutes. Cherish every breath folks.

Later St. Mary's Alley if you ask me.

And some people keep trying to force a square peg into a round hole.... I'm amazed how often someone tries to force their marble to be something it isn't and they get mad when they don't get agreement.

Same stuff I see in the OP and why I lean CAC.

The spidery wrinkled cut mark and milky weak colors.

Pattern screams CAC to me. Straight cut, tapered tips, the way it swirls... if this was another color I wouldn't hesitate to say CAC and move on to the next without pause.

X 2 Master.