Chad G.

Caged solid core, what's the size ?? I see one bubble pop and 2 fleas, otherwise a pretty clean marble. Unfinished pontils and on both ends helps me date it to between 1870 or so and 1910. The size is probably around 11/16ths, just guessing though, most of these were made by the Germans for the English gameboard market, the brighter colors also help date it. Dollars to doughnuts it was part of a gameboard set at one time.

Thank you for sharing Shiroaiko, this information is all one of a kind and invaluable to all of us in the Marable community.

Antique German Handmade (cane cut marble) that's what it is and a three stage divided core is the type

Three stage divided ribbon core

no, they are worth a little more than your average cat. certainly worth collecting, or trading, yeah I'd keep it, some people collect nothing but, good trading stock fo you. They are not all that common, like a metallic pelt Rainbo or something, a manufacture defect but a sought after one.

Looks like a cat W metallic, not seeing any indications of Ox.

Some do, some don't, here are a couple different MK Blended Spidermen

I can't find a match either but it does look Vacor IMO

Correct

Common

Any grey base pelt is VHTF, Pink is a close second,. nice mibs

X3, Alley, Akro

Swirl IMO

MK here

agree w Jabo

yes

Japanese

A slag is defined as any transparent base colored marble (Amber, purple, green, red, etc... ) with opaque white running through it, weather hand gathered or machine made. A transitional is a different animal IMO, some are slag like and some are made of 2 opaque colors, just my opinion.

X3, no Vitro. Lots of different manufacturers ended up with a V on their marble by happenstance, the book pic is definitely a Vitro. When you pump out tens of millions of marbles by various companies there is bound to be a few that are very similar. Sorry, I can't nail down a specific manufacturer for ya either.

X3, to bad it has hits, what a nice marble

X3, Alley

Alley Superman IMO

Not Peltier, looks kinda like Master

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