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You guys will never forget that. What fun it had to have been. I will never forget the Heaton digs. Wish I could have dug with you too Bill. We would have gotten along well . Great experiences with great people, who could ask for more? Well, you could ask for marbles I guess. I'm fortunate to have some of the loot from that Alley dig (many thanks Ron!). Maybe somewhere someday another dig will happen. Until then, I will be jonesing for it.

Pel teer Jay bow Vit row Kay row And some say the individual letter for C. A. C. and a few of us just say it as a word like Kak.

I agree with JABO.

CAC 100%

Just do your thing, everything has some new meaning these days but this is about marbles. Marble on!

Hello and welcome Gina! I cringed to hear what you've got invested in these marbles. I see mostly common stuff and some newer marbles, i don't think I see one Christensen in the bunch. I felt the need to comment and suggest that you step back and learn before you put out any money. Ebay is full of misidentified marbles and vultures looking to take your money. Just as you wouldn't jump in and start buying all sorts of stocks without learning what you are doing first, you want to learn what you are investing in and what is a good deal and what isn't. If those marbles in the group shots are what you have in to show for $1000, someone has taken advantage. I don't want to sound negative or discourage you, so I won't say how bad, but definitely don't keep buying from them. My mother got too enthusiastic about marbles years ago and overpaid for lots of them too, spending thousands upon thousands. She got some good ones in the process but lost quite a sum of money and without my knowledge. She took it upon herself to amass quite a collection without running them by me first. I don't want to see that happen to anyone else. Chuck

I agree with vacor for the Yellow one. Probably not Heaton on the other two either but more pics could change that.

I was at a show and a guy had a super rare huge sulphide with a bat with widespread wings (think the batman symbol) and while at the show, it fractured. No pics, but that one nice German cleaved down the middle reminded me of it.

I have several (I think 9) around 7/8" to an inch or so as well. They are nice marbles and even nicer when they are big

Vitro Cosmic Rainbows. Nice!

That's where I'd have it but there are others with more transitional expertise than myself.

Good example of the variation in the bag contents Ric, Tommy, this is what I was talking about, the bag on the left has some of the more sought after marbles in it and is worth more because of them.

Peltier on both IMO.

I'm seeing a rare Alley on the right. Here is one from Nola Morgan's Alleys. I took photos because I wanted to record this color combo. Roughly the same size too, judging by the pics.

MK for both.

I agree with Vacor on #1, Late St. Mary's Alley for #2, and a one sided MK for 3 I believe.

Nice group there! I'm with Ron... nothing to see here... move along... nobody but us chickens, uh, alleys. The common everyday Alley can be plain and ho-hum but when they wanted to make a marble, they really knew how. Nothing ho-hum about many of them.

It's not rare. The bag should sell for $20-$30 if in good shape. If it has some of the nicer marbles like the halloween I pictured, then the value would be higher.

Agreed, not all with this mark are Ravenswoods, it just happens to be that many Ravenswoods do show it. Good work on your part putting the pieces together though, shows you are researching and learning. I'm torn but leaning Alley but it might be Champion like Ron said.

First and second photos show strong Pelt seams IMO. Just got twisted up.

All Alleys, great find! Not easy to find, any of them.

Master, Master, Vitro.

It's a Japanese transitional from "Yasuda" .

Vitro. Years ago they were thought to be Akros but they aren't.

Here's a Master score I got not long ago. Several UV reactive ones too. A few Champions mixed in there.