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There are some nice Akros showing up here! I just picked these 2 color snakes up. They are the more common color combo, but still the 2 colored ones don't come along all that often.

Hint taken I posted them in the correct place.

A box of them I recently acquired. This looks like a Buddy box but there's no name on it.

I saw the teals and my mind went straight to Alley and ignored the rest of them but when you said Ravenswoods, I had a "duh" moment and realized there was a mistake. I'm not so sure there is anyone who can differentiate those teals from the ones Alley made at Pennsboro. They look identical. I need to get them out and some that were dug at Pennsboro and put them side by side to see if there are any differences. I think if anything, it will be the white of the base glass.

Sorry, you're right, I posted these in the wrong place.

Edited...Oops, wrong forum

Like a snowy night, or what I imagine as a snowy night since I live so far South that I rarely see snow, lol.

No doubt!!

Metallic

Akro for me as well. I have a cork very similar to it.

Metal on a cateye

Yes it does! Like "The Eye of Sauron"! That thing is wild!

I had pretty well convinced myself that was AV in the pic, so I couldn't shake the Jabo ID. Alley sounds good to me too.

Tough one... the only thing that comes to mind is jabo or cairo. Leaning jabo. Is it 5/8"? Is that a clump ov AV in the bottom right pic?

Adding a few.

I can tell you have high hopes for them, but unfortunately they aren't rare valuable handmade marbles. They appear to be marbles made for glass transport. Glass has to be shipped somehow, and often it is made into crude balls to be loaded onto rail cars for shipment, then remelted into whatever the next use is... often fiberglass. The color can vary but blue-green is the most common and trash, wrinkles, bubbles, and strands of other colors and contaminates is common in them. It's just industrial grade glass. It can be fluorescent or not, it's just whatever scrap glass got melted down for stock. They are rough and have these characteristics because they are mass produced on machines with little to no quality control or concern about bubbles, wrinkles, colors, or anything at all really. Not collectible really other than as a novelty.

It does look like a Jorkscrew.

No doubt! I agree with y'all though, alley and maybe sistersville.

Thanks! I kinda thought it might have been for the nato allies fighting the nazis but never was sure. I didn't know there were marbles called allies before all that. Every day I learn something new about marbles is a good day!

I have a couple of those allies boxes too. They both have alleys in them but every time I see them I wonder if they were calling them Allies because they were made by Alley and they decided "allies" was the plural of alley, or if they were called Allies because of WWII and I think these boxes are from along that time frame. Anybody know? It doesn't matter I guess, but it's one of those nagging curiosities I wish I knew the answer to for no particular reason . I just noticed that a lot of my pics in the early pages of this tread were not working anymore due to some rearranging on photobucket so I went back and edited them to work and updated a few. Some of those pics are poor quality but I was using a cell phone back then, lol.

Thinking Cairo for the red, Ravenswood that didn't get much pattern for some reason for the green, and Jabo for the blue.

This looks like it was made by hand to me. The top right looks like a spot where someone had a hold on it. Maybe it's just an odd mark, it's pretty small for a hand made marble. Some germans were that small but...? Tough one.

Master was my thought as well.

Akro for me as well.

Just picked up this fruit cocktail.