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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!

I found a huge dump... huge as in the city dump from the 1820s to 1920s. It covers many many acres and you can fill semi trucks with the bottles there. I haven't dug it in over 10 years but there are tons of bottles like these. If the market ever gets good for these old bottles, I'll have to visit it more often. I used to go with a big frame hiking pack and a shovel and axe. I had so many bottles but gave most away after getting tired of being surrounded by so many old bottles. We found some straight sided coke bottles too, glass insulators, opium bottles, poison bottles, a hutchinson or two, old fruit jars, etc...

Bumping to the top with a couple more of my best. Alley:

Correct, all Vitros. The purple/white/blue ones are a little harder to find.

Thank you! Another of my best. Unfortunately it has a fracture but it doesn't in these pics. I don't know when or how it happened. Just appeared one day.

One of my best IMO. PPP.

Nice volcano in those Heatons Mojo. Nice Alleys Marboman.

A recent find. A bunch of St. Mary's Alleys that all stayed together through all the years. A group pic and then shots of all the different types separated into groups. Common marbles but I like to find them this way.

New old stock was available for sale at the Museum of American glass in West Virginia at one time. I think they were 14 bucks or something like that. Not sure if they still are.

Yeah Ric, my camera fails miserably when yellow is involved. I don't know why. It throws the color balance way off, these aren't true to color. I can get a little better results doing one marble at a time but still have problems. Here is a better representation of the colors. Thanks Gladys!