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Al Oregon

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  1. Agree, not an Akro corkscrew. Could go with an Alley but...?
  2. Not sure - here is bag of them
  3. Hmmmm, maybe a WVS - Alley?
  4. Slag makes more sense. In a wirepull, you can follow the "wire" or ribbon around inside the marble and it doesn't merge with itself or "smear", etc.
  5. Left - contemporary; right - ? If the contemporary has name or initials, may have a little value depending on the maker but looks pretty simple so the few buck range at most.
  6. Peltier Rainbo; PPP; foreign; maybe a faded Bennington or similar marble from that era.
  7. Left 3 lean to Alley for me. Right one, based on last pic, has me leaning Peltier Rainbo but...?
  8. Great variety. Hope you got the deal down to less than half...
  9. I got my box from Toys 'R Us back in 2003 (still shrink wrapped - never opened).
  10. Here are a couple pictures that shows a lot of varieties of oxblood.
  11. The owners / former owners would probably know their competitors over the years and may know which competitors made the "marbles made in Mexico" that were purchased by Imperial and others.
  12. I always liked my Limeade with yellow.
  13. When I visited the Vacor factory in Guadalajara some years ago, their "sorters" sat on stools at a high rectangular table and pulled marbles (same style) out of a 50 gallon drum after they had cooled down for couple days. They threw the damaged ones into another smaller barrel and put the good ones in boxes to send to the other part of the factory that did the packaging into bags. They had 3-4 quonset style buildings, each about football field size where they did their work. They would not let me take pictures inside the factory.
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