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I actually traded for that one just recently. Not sure where he got it from but I think he just recently got it. I traded some dirty dug Heatons for it.

Looks JABO to me as well.

I'm so glad to have been able to dig Heaton. Good to see so much unknown stuff come out of the ground that helped get marbles out of our unknown swirls boxes. Heaton was so fun to dig, I loved hitting that vein of marbles, the fellowship with other diggers, and the terrific friends made in the process. We laughed, talked until the early morning hours, looked at countless marbles, got a gun pulled on us, and all sorts of memorable things Life memories. Val says it's one of her favorite things she's ever done in her life too.

Some nice stuff shown here. Here's a couple more.

All Alleys from what I can see.

Yep, I was on late last night. I think of all the places needing to be dug and needing documentation, Heaton was probably the one needing it most. We had no idea. We thought Heaton only made 20 or so types and most of them were "blah". Now so many marbles that were in our Champions and Ravenswoods have provenance and others we didn't even know about are found. I found a lot on ebay that I determined were mostly Heatons and some of the named types were in it, so they have been out there. I know another guy who just bought a big lot at an estate sale and lo and behold, they are Heatons, many of the same ones we dug and a few that I haven't seen yet, so they are out there, we just have to make the connection to the maker. This is why I'm sharing so many Heaton photos. Some new collectors and even some old collectors are stating that Heaton is now their favorite swirl maker! Can you imagine? Little old Heaton that 2 years ago nobody cared about is now the favorite of some. They really did make a variety of excellent marbles. This type marble we looked over a bit and I looked at Ron and said, this marble makes me feel cold. He grinned and turned his notepad with potential names on it and was pointing at the name "Iceberg". So we all agreed that is the appropriate name for this one. I like it. Blue, white, and brown tracer. These are more common than ones like the Blue Denim but I'm not sure there are enough for all collectors. Maybe more will come out of existing collections. I bet 200 or so were found based on what I saw in our buckets and figuring how many other people got buckets. The Heaton Iceberg:

Thanks for the input! Next: These Heatons always appealed to me. I was picking out handfuls every time we washed a bucket at Ron's house. I never could figure out a name for them. They are dark, smoky, mysterious, purple and grey and dark magic green/brown. Voodoo. That's it! Heaton Voodoo.

I know, right?! But the good thing is you can recognize Heaton's pattern in almost every one of them. The glass too in some of them. That one particular purple color is found in a lot of them. It's Wissmach, I dug several pieces of it from the cullet pile. Probably explains why it fractured a lot on some marbles too.

Two Bogard Halloween cats.

Dumping pics left and right. I think Heaton has stolen the stage, who knew they made so many!?!?

From what I see, I would start with Akro at 11:00. then going clockwise I would say Peltier, then Champion, then Ravenswood, then another Ravenswood and Alley in the center.

One site I know of that could probably be walked but it's been heavily dug and now the homeless live on it. Someone was killed there a while back.

The marble sites are private property or government property and they fight poachers all the time. Daily. You may have no problem or you may have serious problems. One factory site is owned by the local magistrate judge ( I know him) and he shows up at random times and has trail cameras out.

Here you go Chad. These usually have a faded green stripe. The green stripe is faint on mine but not as faint as these poor pictures make it look. It's very washed out, old pic from before I had my photo area set up. Then there's the metallic one, even harder to find: There's a yellow faced one too, thought I had pics but I don't.

Chad, where is that info about suppenhutte? I clicked the link but see no reference to it. What category is it under on Alan's site?

I'm the guy on the right. This pic was taken at Ron's place just after the last Heaton dig a few weeks ago. I prefer machine made by far, swirls more specifically. When I started in the 1980s I was more interested in the handmades but so was everybody back then. I'm so glad attention got shifted to the machine mades.

Fun topic! I'll put 10 cool ones up.

deleted... didn't realize there were two of these topics the same and I pretty much said the same thing Ron did in the other one, down to the red faced one lol.

Newer MK for the bottom 3.

The Heaton Oyster. The coloration on these is dead on the name. Looks just like the meat of an oyster, even the dark purple. It has a translucent base, can vary from almost opaque to very translucent. Has the amber brown coloration to varying degrees throughout the base, and a dark purple swirl.

I can add some for the thread: