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Thanks Chad!

Heaton with AV

Some were. Not that many but a handful.

I lean Vacor as well. Vacor Sunset.

I think the one with yellow is Alley and the rest are Ravenswoods.

I agree^

I guess I lean Champion. Tough call.

Kinda looking like early JABOs.

What size are they? Ravenswood is possible, or Champion.

Likely Champion.

Be glad to take you there Ron!

That's a little far for me. If it looked like for sure good marbles I would be interested but it looks like 2 or 3 of those are most all 7/8"-ish marbles, which would mean probably jugs of JABOs. The others don't look very promising either but it's hard to get much detail. If they are already convinced they are worth thousands of dollars, I think it would be a waste of 10 hours of driving. If it was nearby I'd check it out to be sure. Thanks for the link!

I'm in Georgia. What part of GA are they in?

That's an interesting one for sure! I can see it being Heaton. Not sure about the AV though, Heaton did use AV but not what I'd call "chunks" of it.

Thanks y'all. They are cool looking. I think all were dug, seen by Akro as mistakes I guess.

No, that looks foreign. Here is a leopard skin:

When zooming in, I can't get the detail needed to be sure. Maybe single shots up close would help. From this, I would think Alley, maybe vacor? And late Ravenswood or champion.

Keep it with the Masters.

Alley for both. The first is from St. Mary's factory. Any swirl can exhibit the buttcrack fold but it's the rest of the marble that matters. The buttcrack fold is cause by the ingot folding upon itself. The ingot is a cut section of the stream of glass. Imagine the stream coming from the tank, and the cutter is cutting it into lengths about the size of a tootsie roll. Then fold that tootsie roll in half. Now you have the typical JABO classic pattern. Roll it into a sphere and you can see why you have the buttcrack. But look a the marble you have... that swirl pattern can't occur just by folding a tootsie roll in half, right? That shows more involvement, so it's not likely a JABO classic. Then the glass comes in and confirms. The second marble is also an Alley, but this one is from the Pennsboro factory and a named type, called a Tater Bug. They are pretty collectible.

I wonder what happened to the forum member from years ago named Road Dog. I recall he had some purple on opaque white corks. 2 or 3 maybe.

Nice one Chad! Leastsound, yes! Zakjak, Heatons range from 21/32" down. Anything over was a mistake and not normal production. Some larger ones were dug and they pretty much always have cold rolls, surface abnormalities, and are our of round. They didn't have a shooter machine but double ingots and things happened occasionally, making an unintentional bigger marble. I don't see any blue denims in your group. I do see a nice Blackberry.

Some I got together in a lot that have been together all these years. Yellow on white. I don't think they are quite in the "rare" category or anything but not as common as others. The second pic you show is a peltier rainbo, a common one.

Try purple on opaque white cork. Very htf.

Dang Bill, you have some nice boxes!