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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!

Peerless from what I understand means it had no peers, they were in a class of their own without peers.

That marble in the pics is a rainbo.

Yeah it's a little sinkhole. A lot of those snakeskins have them but this one really has one lol. It's a common trait on this type.