Alan

I suggest that you try for photos in focus - instead of big closeup shots than end up the size of a soccer ball. I know its the fad these days to have huge photos (I can't explain why), but focus is more important than size. Learn how your camera or phone does manual focus. Make sure your lens isn't so close to the subject that it can't focus.

Vacor

Fantasy bag.

One starting point is learning when a manufacturer was in the marble business.

Pic?

Modern lampwork. Moretti glass.

Yeah - it looks modern lampwork. It would be more recognizable if in-focus.

Not German, but too out-of-focus for me to tell. Maybe Akro, possibly Vacor.

The problem with the "End of Cane" idea is that it doesn't benefit from a working knowledge of cane-cut marbles and the variables in trimming the cane in preparation for the next cut or a hurried marble-maker. In the final analysis - it a cane-cut marble. The construction of cane, pulling it, the opacity of the rods, how much the cane was pulled (decreasing color density), how heat was managed between cuts.... all this affects the appearance. I think it better not to hope that a marble is a special kind/meets some special nuanced definition. There are a lot of assumed, but incorrect, beliefs on cane-cut marbles. Words are used to describe them that cause folks to believe in concepts that simply aren't accurate.

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They have no individual "names", and I think it is best kept like that. The naming fetish has gone a bit far.

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You should beatbox that.

If you Maglite it, it will be purple glass.

At the New Philly show 20+ years ago, a guy said he had some Akro in his van he wanted to offer me. In the van he opened a wood Army footlocker that was FULL of blue/yellow Popeye patches. I have no idea how many thousands of them were in there, but it was a really, really big number. He said the footlocker couldn't be moved (and wouldn't stand the weight of the contents if moved). He begged me to buy some...."Name your price!" but I walked. That was just one digger. The total universe of dug blue/yellow Popeye patches is HUGE. Think >15,000. and well beyond. I think they are just errors that were dumped. Nothing more unusual than that.

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They are known up to 1".

No, they are just poorly made marbles. That happens in mass production. They were usually discarded as refuse.

Marbles were commonly used as claw-foot balls back in the day.

(Noting the seller to avoid their auctions)