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I agree, nice flame. The OP marbles to me are calligraphies but the term has evolved over the past 10-15 years. When they are packed that tight and not all stacked in the same direction, it's callig to me. Refer to these examples of real antique calligraphy to draw similarities. Calligraphy isn't just about the letters.
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Re-read this again today and it hit me that you probably had the calipers on millimeters lol. I'll get there eventually.
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16.2" is bigger than a basketball. But anyway, this is an Alley regardless of size.
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I don't know the size range of the Scalawags. I see some online in the 5/8" range, so one 16th more is possible IMO.
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Nice marbles! I'd put them with my calligraphies whether they are or not. Pennsboro Alley. I didn't dig there but I've dug dirt from there. Still have a few buckets from Pennsboro.
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Ravenswood.
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Might want to compare that to JABO Scalawags.
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Champion on the yellow/orange now that I can see it better.
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First two are Alleys.
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It was smaller, so it didn't fit tight in the roller grooves and it cooled down too much to smooth out completely as it went down the rollers. If the volume of the ingot was greater, then it would have fit the rollers better and probably smoothed out better. By the time the ingot passes 5 or 6 grooves of the rollers, it has already hardened too much to smooth out much more.
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Alley but no name. There is no Alley Green Goblin.
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Ravenswood made some with this weird orangy quality to the white but 3/4" is pushing it to be commonly found in RW.
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9-28-2024 in Valdosta GA. Valdosta is on I-75. Lots of great places to eat, wonderful hotel rooms and cooperative staff. We expect this one to be larger than the last and according to the publisher, we will be able to have the WV Swirl book available at the show and Eddie and I will be signing copies if so. I sure hope so. Cutting it close. I will have displays of marble factory parts and pieces including the cateye crucible from Heaton, Vitro, and other cool items like the only WV swirl tank outlet known to exist, a veneering crucible from MK I believe, and examples of marbles from different companies. Come see us, we will begin in room trading Wednesday. If you reserve a table(s), you will get a coffee mug. Also check out the T-shirts we will have available while they last.
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9-28-2024 in Valdosta GA. Valdosta is on I-75. Lots of great places to eat, wonderful hotel rooms and cooperative staff. We expect this one to be larger than the last and according to the publisher, we will be able to have the WV Swirl book available at the show and Eddie and I will be signing copies if so. I sure hope so. Cutting it close. I will have displays of marble factory parts and pieces including the cateye crucible from Heaton, Vitro, and other cool items like the only WV swirl tank outlet known to exist, a veneering crucible from MK I believe, and examples of marbles from different companies. Come see us, we will begin in room trading Wednesday. If you reserve a table(s), you will get a coffee mug. Also check out the T-shirts we will have available while they last.
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Last one is Pennsboro Alley.
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All Ravenswood.
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I'd say everyone (swirls) but Mid Atlantic and maybe Cairo made something like this. I don't think it's Alley at least. Likelihood is Alox or Champion IMO.
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The left one is RW, the others may be too but I can't tell enough to call it.
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Ha, now that's funny
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The windshield is a shooter with clear, mostly colorless base glass and orange, red, white, sometimes a little yellow and usually an area of clear showing without color over it like a windshield of a car. The tootsie roll is usually player size, not shooter, and has a darker base ranging from olive to brown transparent with white and orange-pinkish to salmon ribbons (like the colors on a tootsie roll wrapper). Two different types.
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It's a collector name not factory as far as I'm aware.
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Yeah Pelt Windshield. They are all this size or close from what I've seen.
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I'd say Alley.
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That's the color I was expecting to see. Here is one I chose to take pics of backlit with a VERY strong light. I picked this one because the base glass was lighter than most of this type, so the backlighting would show better. The darker ones go to a burgundy red like yours shows. So, other companies made very close to this as well, but when you factor in the ribbon pattern, I think yours is Jackson.
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Champion
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