Plutonianfire

Awesome explanation. As for UV reactivity, that depends on whether you’re using a blacklight at 395 nm without a filter for visible light, a long wave UV light at 365 nm with a filter for visible light, or a short wave UV light at 254 nm. First photo shows effect of long wave UV Second photo shows effect of short wave Third photo shows effect of normal visible light Photos 4, 5 and 6 show two marbles under long wave UV, short wave UV and visible light

Very sophisticated, and plausible, analysis. I agree. If the explanation was as simple as marble playing damage then: 1. Why no indication of other playing damage like chips, flakes and subsurface moons? 2. Why is damage conspicuosly limited to the area within the colored swirs? 3. Why the dark discoloration? It’s about the same color as the swirls. 4. How do you explain the long wavy lines and other areas of dark discoloration that lacks a full moon or crescent shape? 5. These moons look pretty small for damage from another marble.

I have a vaseline/uranium glass bottle collection. Some examples below: 1. 4-oz apothecary bottle 2. 2-oz apothecary bottle 3. 1/2 oz apothecary bottle

I’m wondering about Alley because Alley used a lot of brown

I think I said “hieroglyphic-like” markings… although who knows … maybe cavemen played with stone marbles?

Please see attached photos. Again have no clue about ID.

Please see attached photos of brown swirl marble with what appear to be hieroglyphic-type markings within the swirls. No clue here.

Apart from Marble #6 that Steph identified as Pelt, I never received any input on the first five. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you for this link. Very interesting exchange.

The following photo is from a thread further down on this forum. It was agreed that the marbles, many of which have eyes that look identical to the marble that I found, were Benningtons.

The “Bennington “ that I have is glazed. This one is not glazed. It looks like it was dyed.

The marble that I posted looks almost exactly like the bluish marbles in your photo here.

Terrific detailed explanation. So, given three eyes spaced about equally apart on the marble that I found, the eyes are consistent with a Bennington marble stacking on at least one side of a tetrahedral pyramid (it would be four eyes with a square pyramid).

From what I can glean online, the “eyes” result from marbles touching each other in the kiln. I didn’t know that was what I was supposed to be looking for until just now. Please see additional photos showing 3 eyes at approximately 3 o’clock, 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock, respectively.

Please see a couple more photos. Looks like two big eyes and a third smaller eye.

Some colors stand apart. Please see photos of what might be a Cairo Titanium Blue.

Please see photos of another “marble” thrown up onto the ground suface by a bulldozer. I thought it might be a clay marble.

Okay. So, there’s just no way to call it with any amount of certainty.

Please see attached photos of what appears to be a Bennington Blue

I’m also guessing that most modern marbles aren’t made from depression glass??

Does anyone agree that my marble is a Ravenswood? Or should I just assume that the tentative ID is correct if no one challenges it? 😳

I’ll defer to your expertise on this one.

x2 anyone?