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Sistersville IMO

Modern MK.

Ravenswood. Something is bad wrong with your background removing program.

Sure Art, there's nothing for me to back off of, I wasn't on the offense. I was just thrown off track by the comment and wondering what I was missing, knowing that Alan knows about batch glass and all. There was no confrontational attitude meant to be conveyed in my reply, just a genuine question. My reply isn't edited unless I came back to add the part about the translucent/opaque qualities right after I submitted my reply, and Alan's looks the same as when I first saw it too. I'm confused I guess, not sure what happened here. Whatever it was, I was just wondering what information Alan had because I had conflicting information. These forums are text only, and text can be read a lot of different ways. Hopefully everyone knows me enough by now to know that while I may be frank sometimes, I'm not one to jump in confrontationally.

Wispler

Who claims that vintage makers didn't use batch glass? While it could be oven brick, I have seen these with translucent speckles just like this, and oven brick would be totally opaque.

Me too 👍

Snow Globe is right. Mica is a rock that was used in handmade marbles and a very small number of experimental newer machine mades. This is probably undissolved potash or something like that.

Alley

Normal tiger eye.

I lean that way a little but can see Alley too.

Another RW.

Looks RW if 5/8" ish

Left is Peltier.

Correct on the banded lutz. They call them opaque for some reason even though they are translucent. Condition keeps it from having significant value IMO. Get another opinion since handmades aren't my forte, but to me this would be under $50.

You can sorta see a couple on the right side of this photo of Jessica Allison's Kokomos.

Exactly this ^^

2-3 thousand marbles sounds like a lot maybe to a new marble person but it's a very small sample to draw from for different examples. As mentioned at AAM, it's best for you as a seller to not try to make all these common marbles into big financial wins for you. The people who are doing free IDs for you are also the very same customers you are trying to sell these to for inflated prices and it doesn't settle well. Just FYI. From our perspective, you just put 4 marbles like we have in our junk jars up for $100.

A harder to find Kokomo.

The glass looked Davis but not if it doesn't glow. It's probably one of the old smaller WV swirl companies but no strong traits to pin it down.

Yes, later Alley.

I want to know if it glows too.

Alley here.

Right, they used no batch glass whatsoever after closing down in the early 40s and reopening after WWII.

Alley, probably Pennsboro. The black cherry is so named because of the dark red black cherry color, which that marble doesn't have.