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Nice Pelts! deleted bad photobucket link

CAC was my first thought too. Pretty sure they are CACs.

I collect arrowheads, old coins and cool stuff found while metal detecting. I have a stamp collection but I stopped collecting back when they started making so many different stamps every year that nobody could keep up with them. I used to collect minerals, matchbooks, matchbox and hotwheels, star wars stuff, coins, old fishing lures, boy scout memorabilia, antique automobile advertisements, old toys and anything else I could find. I had to narrow it down a bit and focus on a few things I really like and let the rest go.

Maybe they're masters, I am not the end all authority for sure. They really do look like Master, especially the group pictures. Honestly, if they weren't in the context that they are and they were in a box full of U.S. marbles I wouldn't have hesitated to put them in the master box. The knowing that these were found overseas puts them under more scutiny than normal. Imperial did make (distribute anyway) some that look very much like masters. I can't tell for sure if glass is new or old, but new marbles do have a certain look. It might not always be the right feeling but what can I say?

Me too. They look very close to masters but the glass looks new.

New day, new perspective. I think lower left is Imperial and the two middle ones are odd compared to US marbles.

I wouldn't think Imperial for any of them. If I didn't know these weren't from the US, I would have said: Pelt or vitro, Akro, Vitro Master, Akro, Master. Knowing that I am not completely familiar with foreign marbles and that these weren't found here, it adds a little doubt to my IDs but they look US to me.

I agree. That is a really nice CAC!!

Tri lite with Aventurine Few nicer ones

Mixed Mixed Mixed Bulls Eyes Mixed 1980s Mixed 1980s Mixed 1980s Caged cateyes and hybrids Caged cateyes and hybrids Caged cateyes and hybrids Caged cateyes Tri lite with a dark purple stripe and aventurine

Someone asked me for some Vitro pictures, so I got some out and took some pics. Figured I'd put them here too if you want them. Here are a few of my vitros: Phantom Conquerors Conquerors Tri Lites and similar Victorys Fancy and Exotic Conquerors Tiger Eyes, Whities, etc... Helmets Shooters Purple veneered Conqueror types Opalescent

Wow, some dream stuff here!

Wow, nice ones!

I still think this is a bit newer than 1929. The printing, box, and graphics look newer to me. The addition of the picture with cateyes by hdesousa gives me more confidence to guess that the transitionals are probably from the 1940s-1950s or so. I suspect this company made these transitionals all the way up until they figured out how to make cateyes.

Ravenswood is what came to mymind as well fwiw.

1 and 2 are Vacor, 3 is Imperial.

Me three. Of the "lady" family I think.

Has a pincher look to me. Not sure I ever saw a pincher with oxblood though.

Dang, I think Alley for the first one too. I like it! Good one.

Nice filagree looking pattern!

I think it depends on the marble. A chipped up regular single color akro corkscrew has no monetary value. A chipped pelt golden rebel is worth a little bit. I think folks are more forgiving of damage on the german handmades (I know I am). Some beginners don't mind chipped up marbles, and if you put together a good lot of them they will sell. I had some chipped ones saved up and sent them to a boy scout troop that was discussing marble collecting so they could have some to get their collections started. So I guess they always have some value, if not always monetary.

Yes, it has been very useful as a learning tool. I enjoy looking at cullet and I feel like it's a really nice asset to a collection. To me there is more to marble collecting than just the orbs of glass, I like the whole story. The pictures of the old factories, the broken pieces of oven brick and machinery parts, the stories and digs, the packaging, advertising, and all of it ties together to make a much more interesting presentation than just some pretty glass balls. Some of my favorite marbles are the ones to the left in a square cardboard box with dirt still on them from the old Pennsboro Alley factory that I got from Mibcapper. It's the history of it as much as the beauty. I hope that by the time I can retire (if I ever can), I will have enough interesting pieces to build a modest but complete "exhibit" about each manufacturer and share it with everyone either by going to shows or by having it in a small museum or ...? But that's why there is the little akro leaf dish, the gearshifter knobs, the cullet, the funnel and pintle from Akro, and stuff like that. All my cullet is from Pennsboro Alley, Akro, and CAC. I'd like to get some from ravenswood, Cairo, etc... if anybody has some they would like to sell.

That's actually a really tiny round wooden box that came with a lot of old marbles. I don't think it was related to the marbles and it seems like I did find out what it was for one time and have since forgotten. I kept it in my marble collection in case it was marble related, but didn't remove it when I found out otherwise.

It's raining, I've been looking at pics from the marble show, and it got me wanting to dig around in marbles so we know what that means... time to clear off the table! I took some pics because I figure what good is it unless other people get to enjoy it too!

I've also been told that if a marble is too big for the rollers it will get orange peel.