ManofKent

Have a good one over the pond.

Thanks for the update - I find the gallery pages very useful.

Thanks - yes that looks right.

New acquisition - any dating (or other info appreciated):

Bottom two are cheap Asian, the Alox are fakes (probably Marble King cats), the glass swan might be rebagged Jabo but I'm not sure.

Yes - Vitro All Red BlackLine

Agreed on Vitro Conqueror, Agreed on WV Swirl, although I'd lean Heaton if pushed - not sure on the far left, might be one of Champion's filament filled marbles rather Vitro, would want a closer look.

Can I throw Vitro Anacortes into the possibles - that teal looks plausible... Tricky one

I'm not convinced they were intentional - could easily be glass changes, but they could be the glassmaker playing around. Most larger bags seems to have one or two in them though and that seems a high percentage if they weren't intentional. Basically I'm on the fence 🙂

Colours look more Akro than Vitro to my eyes.

I think so (couldn't rule out an odd Asian though).

Marlowe Peterson (I think with Larry Castle again) produced a thin book/booklet on cats that's long out of print but not too hard to track down - it's pretty slim but about the only attempt to specifically look at cats eyes (no idea where my copy is... must hunt it out). They're still under appreciated and have little financial worth. Off the top of my head - I'd try and get all the vitro variants, particularly looking out for 'hybrid' types where two colours blend. The original Marble King 'St Mary's' four colour cats are a nice find (there are later Marble King reissues and Marble King two colour cats). There are a few interesting oddities produced by Bogard that are worth tracking down too.

Very nice Steph ☺️

Agreed - some of the Mylee run look quite similar

I agree on probably Akro

Anacortes seems a decent guess

Vitro Conqueror

Vitro Conqueror

Tentative Akro from me, but a trciky one.

http://themarbleman.com/caramels.htm still has the old Marble King 'Wee glows' - they all glow green/yellow but have different non-glowing colour patches - but they are UV glowing - very bright but only under UV light. The one's Steph linked to (I've bought some from a UK seller - probably no use to you) will 'charge' under bright light and won't need UV.

Very nice 😍

Victories are surprisingly hard to find.

+1 😊

Definitely Vitro - nice colours on that one. A slag marble has opaque white running in a transparent base colour in a random pattern.