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MK for me.

Definitely Vitro Parrot.

And a few more cool Heatons for good measure

Nice stuff being posted. Killer threepeat marble Chad, and same with that metallic Alley Ric! Dave, love the dug Alley and Heaton stuff. Cool drizzle. Speaking of Abalone, this is my most epic abalone Heaton.

I like that "oogly" one Ric!

I don't like to sell. I've sold a few lots of dirty Heatons in order to let some out for other collectors but money has a way of turning into nothing real fast. A bill paid for one month, or a marble I can enjoy for years... I'll take the marble unless things get real tight. I do trade now and then, and I try to make the recipient of the trade come out on top. I can get rid of a few like that. Selling them is hard but giving them to someone who really is enthusiastic is easier. As far as displaying, I don't have many on display. Never got the time to find or build display cabinets. It would be an undertaking. One day maybe, but life is so busy. Got some jars and cullet out, but I can bring out and show things easily.

I knew that about Kokomo using the Peltier machine, but the machine doesn't make any pattern or design or leave any signature behind, it just makes the glass round. Brian Graham makes marbles on the Peltier Miller machine but the patterns are nothing like any Peltier. It's all in the feed setup from the tank and shears. Once it hits the machine it's already got the pattern it's going to have. I would say the maker of that marble ^ had the same or very similar tank and glass feed setup as Peltier. I only bring this up because of so many new recent collectors who can quickly get the wrong idea.

How can you tell what machine they were made on? Just curious.

A group of marbles that I believe were the contents of a box or bag, all found together and all mint and matching. Shows one way flinties might have been purchased back then. And I have a couple HTF colors but no pics. Purple being the main one. I'll see if I can get it out and get some pics. It is dull with surface wear though.

A group of them that stayed together all these years, 3/4", most show eyes but not all.

The inside of a 3/4" flintie, dug at Akro. Shows more of what's behind that "fish eye".

I agree, both OP marbles are older Imperials IMO.

I agree Steph. Kokomo didn't make marbles that long and many marbles that people say might be Kokos are Pelts IMO. Some types are well known to be kokomo but the majority of rainbo looking marbles with sooty bubbles and dirty base glass are probably still rainbos IMO. I'm not an authority on them, but I feel like you do when I see the "might be kokomo" comment so much, especially on facebook. And if it looks like one of the types that Kokomo and Peltier both made, then maybe it could be Kokomo, but chances are very likely it's not just because of the numbers. But it does depend on who said it when judging how much weight the comment carries.

Thanks Ron, I always thought this one was a little different. Now I know why. Headed to move mine to the right spot in my collection now.

Last one is Champion? I have one from a known swirl collector and author (don't want to say his name) that was sold to me as Ravenswood many years ago so that's where I always kept it and although the thought of Champ crossed my mind I've kept it with the Ravenswoods. I need to go move it. Here's mine:

There are some tough ones in that group. I would probably call them all Alley except #2 which I would put with later Ravenswood.

Euro, Alley, Alley, nice Ravenswood.

There has been a lot more information coming to light about Yasuda and other Japanese marble companies lately, thanks to a new collector over there who has been doing some research and legwork. If interested, here are some links: Yasuda factory spotted https://www.allaboutmarbles.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=49502 Duck marbles in Japan https://www.allaboutmarbles.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=49569

Thanks Chad! Good eye on the Toucan ID Dave, not many of them around. For a long time mine and two others were the only ones publicly known, now there are 7 or 8 I think.

Happy Birthday!!