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Sweet!! Nice job, and nice mibs!

Dang, I should pay better attention! If they were 5/8ish I would stick with St. Marys alley, but at less than 1/2" I don't know about that.

If it really is red, I agree, it's a hybrid.

Looks like St. Mary's alley to me.

Not a furnace but it's a really cool mib! I don't know what it is either.

Wow, some nice stuff y'all posted here! I pulled some of mine out and I just can't say that any 3 are my favorite. I narrowed them down to these and narrowing them down got harder and harder. I figured I'd post these and say that if I had to only keep a few, they would probably be mostly on the front row. The moody blues is probably my favorite.

I agree!

Some sold in an advertising box for Weather Bird Shoes

No, they don't bring much, it's just one I would have plucked out because it's old, and worth more than a dime marble like a lot of them in the pic. It might be worth a couple dollars. That red/white/blue one almost out of the pic in the right corner, is that one of the popeyes in the other pics?

Ha! Yes, dang all these names! Anyway, same concept, wrong name I typed!

Lol, ok. I am not an authority... I know just enough to be dangerous . Anyway... I think this is a point of contention for a lot of akro collectors. I only say I think it's a blend or reaction for 2 reasons. (please don't think I'm being argumental... I just like to discuss this stuff to learn!) One is because if you look at most akros with this type of green and yellow, there is often a thin brown line at the border where they meet, just like there is often a grey or black line where yellow and blue meet. Even in the prize names in the box sets I posted yesterday. If it was a 3rd color, they wouldn't have called them prize names, they would have put them in a box marked specials. In ceramics, glaze is crushed glass powder that is painted on the clay to be melted in the kiln. If you put certain colors together, you get crazy blends like this when they meet. The other reason is that on akro corks with introduced colors, the colors go all the way to the cut line at the end of the ribbon/stream. You can see the stream of that color where it got sheared off and sometimes wiped by the shear or smeared or however you describe it. This picture isn't super clear, but it looks like green and yellow were the only two colors that got sheared, the rest happened in the hot marble. (I think) I would love to know what others think so I can adjust my stance if needed.

After taking a second look, you may be right. It does look like it has a melted flat spot look, rather than just a concentric hit like I first thought it was. Good call!

Nice popeyes! Those are sought after as well! I still can't decide on the hybrid... in this pic it looks red, in the other pic it looks brown. If it's red, I'd say definite hybrid. If it's brown, I'd withdraw that and just say it's a better popeye. The bottom one is not a clown, just a regular pelt rainbo.

Oh man, now you've got my attention! I love those NLR pelts (remember NLR when you were asking about the cub scout, well these are some). The blue/yellow is one. The blue/red/yellow is a superman. The blue/reddish orange is a superboy, the green/reddish orange is a flaming dragon. The black/red/white is a rebel. The red/white/blue is a liberty. All sought after marbles and some of yours have great patterns. Don't let them bang around and get any little chips or marks, there is value there. The last 2 pics... first is a group of 3 pelt rainbos, the last is some sort of WV swirl.

Nope, not a vacor on the red one, it's an akro. Nice. I'm not sure the popeye is hybrid. I think it's a blend/reaction. I think the blend was intentional, but not an introduced color.

Yep, it's a crease pontil transitional I believe, but it has damage. The pelt goes with those other multi-colors you had pictured in one of these posts.

I know, right? If I recall, they also had new old metal pedal cars and lots of other old toys they found. They were selling this stuff at a flea market. These boxes of marbles were the only ones they had. I was a kid at the time, but my mom new how much I loved marbles and even though I didn't have the $60 for them, she did . I am so grateful for that!

I'm not positive, but it looks like on the box there are marks where the string probably was criss crossed and tied to hold the lid on. I didn't find the boxes, they were bought off the person who did find them. I think it was their family's store that had been closed and boarded up for decades, then a lot of cool stuff was found when it was cleaned out in the 1980s or so.

They have never been apart, the marbles are original to the boxes. Found in the attic of an old general store maybe 30 or so years ago.

Some from my collection:

Some pinchers from my collection:

Here are a couple akro boxes from my collection. The original postcard and strings are included.

Yeah, I'm not sure if they are hybrid or not either. Closer pics would help confirm/deny. Brown is a common blend between the yellow and green on those.