Chad G.

Cleanest Indian I have, Maglite w/ ghost core Smore clean ones, yes the glass does seem to be softer but nothing like a clambroth, I think every time I look at mine another flake of glass falls off !

Yeah Buddy !!

Latts. Oop !! I left a few out !!

The ones in your link say "Hand Made" & have multi colored ribbons, although I can't really fathom 1 ton let alone 5 tons being "Handmade". The marble pictured above is machine made, no pontil or torch marks. The Vacor's pictured below where made at least 30mm (1.181") maybe 50 mm (1.968") all machine made. The Atmosphere marbles were the only handmades Vacor put out to my knowledge ?? I think the out of round your seeing is from the camera angle used, since it appears to be out of round and elongated the same way in every picture no matter the position of the marble. I was given several Vacor over 1.25" every one is visually out of round, the only one that comes close is a smaller 1 &11/16ths" Michelangelo. LINK : https://www.billes-en-tete.com/liste_billes.php?lang=en Chinese marble link : A pic of the 1 & 11/16ths" Michelangelo, almost in round but not quite, note the heavy orange peel effect surface, every large Vacor I have has at least a little orange peel on the surface if not the entire surface. These appear to be almost identical to the Chinese ones you gave the link to, I can see the orange peel on the surface of the big one pictured here also. Nevertheless it "could" be Chinese ?? All the big modern machine mades seem to exhibit the orange peel surface to some extent, I was just adding up the factors pointing to Vacor as the manufacture. Only familiar with the Chinese "Parachute" & other Chinese torchmades like the ones they fill the new Akro boxes with, smaller but they are handmade, eliminating the chance of an orange peel surface.

You and me both, I had hundreds of Handmades prior to 09 when I sold my 22 year collection due to financial reasons. Not a fun time watching that many years of collecting go down the drain in a matter of months. Making up for lost time now (I guess??) Most I can afford is maybe a $1.00 scratch off, been so long I don't even know what if they still have em that small anymore or not ??

Nice mibs man !!

Well I finally took some of a few Vitro I have, not sure on the names, I'm a die hard Pelt Head, I just kept what I liked. I do have a 3/4" buttermilk on the way and a couple more. Names are good I'm not very familiar with Vitro so bear with me. This is an opal, I should have backlit it, there's also a little AV. in the green I know what this is thanks to Ric. A trilite w/ half transparent clear face & half black, there's a pink ribbon next to the yellow I failed to capture. Yet another retake in the future. I know 3 or 4 of these are blackline but believe their called "Yellow Jackets" more specifically because of the yellow patch on one end ?? A few I know nothing about, just that their Vitro This one has the rich ""buttermilk" color on one end I just couldn't get the lighting right !! ???? ????? I believe the one on the right is what's called a "Tigers eye ?? Not sure of the one on the left. I should have posted these to I/D but ??

Guess I could cot the hole any size, the top is just some thick black foam rubber I had lying around, it worked well, probably fit 5 or 6 5/8ths on top ?? Maybe I'll give er a try and see what I come up with ??

I agree with Ric, trapped air bubble in the center & orange peel, both common to but not exclusively "Vacor"

Nice !!!

An alternating light stand I adapted for some of my larger German handmades. This ones right at 1 & 13/16ths. Almost like Christmas in July when I get 4 or 5 of these going at once, gotta watch it though it can get expensive, AAA batteries go fast.

Akro to me as well !! The seams are off for Master !! This pic is the one that convinced me of Akro !!

Guess I need to look through some of my old drawers Ric, I doubt I'd find any of those but you never know ??

The red one is great man, well on second thought they all are !

A tad over 2 1/4" faceted at one end and remnants of a pigtail nearly melted to oblivion on the other, not pristine, pocket ware & fleas but no hits or missing glass, chunky mica flakes distributed equally around the surface. I could have a light buff to give it a nice smooth surface but why ruin a great mib.

Nice!!

(1947-1948) With appreciation given to the MCSA for this next information

"Happy Thüringen Thursday"

A recently scored transparent Vitro Trilite, thanks for the I.D. confirmation Ric & everyone else who pitched in !!

You lucky you !!

"Hello Sherry, & Welcome to Marble Connection" Don't get discouraged, I had thousands of low to no value marbles when I started out. No doubt we all did, you have to start somewhere & this is a great place to do it. Lots of marble & marble related knowledge here & people more than willing to help ya out. There is a search bar at the top left if you have a specific query you'd like to investigate or just post your questions in whichever forum applies. Someone will be more than happy to help ya out Again "Welcome" Chad G.

Thanks for posting the pix Ron, good friends & good times !!

All the dumps around here are strictly off limits, about the only place left to go that isn't gated off is the beach "0" mibs there, maybe an arrowhead if the dredge hasn't buried it in 40 feet of sand ??

The ones signed w/ initials are more than likely U.S. torch work (their are hundreds if not a few thousand artists) of artists & the others foreign (maybe) at least you have a year and some initials to go on now, I've found I.D.'s on artists marbles like this completely by accident while looking at other mibs, I seen similar workmanship looked and lo and behold the same initials, not saying you'll ever find the makers, I still have several as yet unidentified signed glass. I like, I keep, doesn't matter to me weather it's signed or not, that's just "my personal" point of view as a collector.

I remember posting these and the subsequent discussion with Hansel "Thanks for the help Steph"