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Yeah, @Edwardmarble is a Foreign sparkler. (My old photo of one below). I can't imagine how you connected this to Vitro? There is a thread here, regarding Vito Sparkler in 2016, but it's sarcastic about an ebay seller who hasn't a clue what the heck he was talking about. Oddly enough just a "Vitro Sparkler" search at google brings up the old thread here: Vitro Sparkler Brushed Oxblood Popeye - General Marble & Glass Chat - Marble Connection And PicClick still has part of the ebay listing here: VITRO SPARKLER UNIQUE Superior Brushed Oxblood Patch Popeye 6 Color Marble #1 $29.97 - PicClick @Nate Yes that's a Vitro and it's not uncommon to be like that, yet nobody refers to Vitros as Sparklers. More commonly it's a patch. In fact I may have thought they were a type of Sparkler, many, many years ago. Regardless, it's the glass Vitro used that sets it apart. As topic question goes, nobody is entirely sure who made these. They seem to pop up in Europe but mine and many others surfaced in the USA in the mid-late 1990's when, for lack of who, when and where became the first to virtually attain the 'Foreign Sparkler' identity in this nomenclature. There are other 'Foreign sparklers' known to be packaged in Germany, but this type is very much different. Personally, I've never seen or heard any reference to Vacor having made these.

I just happened to be looking at em yesterday. Link: Italy 8 Marbled Clay Marbles Hand Made by Laura Berretti - Etsy

Uniques? I see some larger Akro Tri-colors but no Uniques'.

Nothing wrong with that nickname; 'Pink Champagne'. Yet as I don't drink alcohol, even if I tried the nonalcohol beverage or soda-pop for that matter, I don't think Egg yolk is gonna be advised. 🙃 Moreover, it's probably a matter of what Henry Hellmers devised: Crystal Ball Article - Henry Hellmers -- The Genius Behind the Glass Colors of Cambridge (cambridgeglass.org)

Nope, sounds like new confounded thing a-ma-bob name to me. Albeit, we all know, a certain color may vary its tones. I have 10 root beer's in my original 100 count box, 1st corkscrew's 1927/8 made before the first Prize name contest winners was suppose to be announced in June 1928. Yet, I didn't make up the name, somebody else did years ahead of me. Blood and bones, Bumble Bee, Pumpkin and root beer had nicknames before I ever knew they existed..

Yup, though weird for a cork, that transparent is called Root Beer and usually or maybe always made with this yellow.

Actually, not quite sure who made this WVS or St Louis Alox. Regardless, it's the only one with color like it I've ever seen. Another old photo, 20 years ago; 2003. I'd shot it to show the really clean clear and Oxblood-like color. Albeit where the ribbon is on the surface (not visible in photo) Opaque red is blending with gray and a bit of white which gives it an anemic Oxblood flavor.

Obviously and why I think it's industrially made 'weighted blanket.' it's a piece of your puzzle. On a side of this canvas (photo of each side; upper and lower below) is a well fashioned closed end. Maybe, if one could think of what it's called, 'Weighted' or something, there's patent listed for them.

Here's a Paden City dug-up that is hardly, if ever, seen. Unfortunately, old poor graphics but you should be able to see enough striping to get it. Also, a bit unusual as most blended red/yellow 'Blended Red, or Ruby Bees' are 1/32-1/16" smaller, like Chinese checker sizes. 5/8" Blended Peach Bee.

Appears to be a small piece of a commercially made canvas weighted blanket. At least, that's the first thing that came to my mind. However, according to google search, weighted blankets weren't invented until 1992 and are for therapeutic uses. Aside from health issues, I could imagine a means to insulate heat or cooling, and or weighing it down for travel. In the meantime, I'd say whoever thought it's an 1992 first, with exception of a therapy, is at least 100 years off the mark.

Well, there were some wasps with transparent blue base that Jill found in Paden City dump. However, they are identical to those I found as brand new with green transparent base in the late 1990's. Also, later IDK around 2005, I stumbled on a group of wasps with blue base, no hints as to time frame and odd for the strange very dark red P&R. All pristine mint and reject fractured while sure look as if they just cooled, bad annealed batch like, yesterday. I.E not dug-up and not likely from a MK bag or intently distributed beyond a trash pile, like at the factory, or some sort. I think they are not 60's Possibly late 80's too and potentially newer than that. Otherwise I don't know as the only transparent blue base I've seen looked like wasps, dug by Jill S. that were maybe mid 60's, "Maybe"

That looks more like a later Marble King Chad

That is a little chippy and what appears to be a rough surface looks like wrinkles. Wrinkly surface along with this blue are features Yasuda factory in Japan transitions are like.

Sorry, but surely you are mistaken Nantucketdink. Whinnie posted photos of two variations of these colors. One variation is ribbon style like the yellow in topic and the other, the orange is thinner with little spots of something as if the color did not anneal properly or is seedy. Not to leave out, about 20 years ago, before Winnie discovered these in Amsterdam yet I wasn't looking to acquire more from Germany Ebay,. I'd sent the auction link to Clyde T as he was looking to get some too. I advised him the same thing: With orange, which that auction had in it, along with others and wire pulls, is the hardest white based to get. And Winie took it up one more level too. She posted one with both, yellow blended to orange with blue and white. Apparently, the hardest to remember, if one wasn't hunting them as I did several years back, is that Winnie found them too.😀

HG with some sort of a 9 pattern on a MFC = True in what Bob described. They gotta be so very rare. I've scoured every black game marble I've ever seen and come up empty, albeit have seen a few photographs of them, I think over 20 years ago in a few of Bob's auctions and online elsewhere. This Very dark green can be seen in some Oxblood bricks as well. Process of elimination: I have the factory dug-up Akro black base Oxblood patch. Sorry, can't shoot a photograph currently. I have not examined it in about 20 years and was thinking it is dark green. It's not swirled at all and surprisingly, it appears black as night however, when back lit, it's semi opaque that lights up as a dirty, for lack of a discerning color to fit, not exactly yellow nor a dull shade of white or even tan. I can't come up with any color to describe as it's a little mind boggling to see what appears as a black, but with a bright light behind, lights up much lighter than one may expect. The color of the red oxblood appears correct and with light behind it, stands out through this lighter, more dirty, maybe muddy, light shade of simi opaque too. Akro Dug-up HG black bricks: These can appear just black and may have a little bit of white mixed in however, when you shine a light on them, the oxblood becomes obvious as an opaque on the surface and through the entire glass. No dark transparent greens I've ever seen. Kind of a burnt Oxblood yet rather, not burnt looking just very dark oxblood color tone without bright light to see it. Peltier's black can be a very dark green too. Yet, I am not exactly seeing Peltier's stripes in this, but can't eliminate or count it out

This one just never quits. A few things probably long forgotten: Somebody who writes and publishes books once wrote and with a photo, said this blue with brown was a MFC Persian blue oxblood. :(. Yet that marble in the book was a CAC without the electric orange. 2nd photo close-up of the orange added. Yet another feature that actually happens occasionally, which I had not noticed at first. It wasn't until I began photographing it, shown at the right angle, looks like an eyeball and this feature had been promoted as a 'CAC Eye' many years ago. Not exactly certain as it was well over 20-25 years ago, the guy who I'd always remembered that had dubbed them as 'CAC Eye' was Brian Estep. If not Brian then, somebody who was well respected CAC expert is his league..

Blue and yellow harder to find, leaving blue and orange the hardest.

This is pretty tricky for the wide and thin ribbon wrapping around it, that, I am more inclined to say: that doesn't happen on a Vacor but nor does it on a Peltier either yet I've seen wide ribbons wrapping like this in CAC but doesn't look CAC either. So, I consulted the scans that Mike Barton sent me of his dug-up collection about 20 year ago. The Scans I uploaded here several months ago. There happens to be only one in over 50 in his scans that does a wrap but, is solid red and brighter white. It's not quite the same ribbon flow but, Maybe in the realm of Pelt's earliest Miller swirls. Leave it for the rest to consider B/C I can't call it a for sure.: Left to right;; 3rd row across and 3rd down:

Our most dangerous cats have warning signs that say: Panther crossing Speed Limit 45. IDK how the Panthers learned to read.

In the late 1980's, at a flea market, there were a lot of 40-50 pound factory boxes filled with these and the same or similar base glass color with other opaque patch and ribbons, blue, green, and maybe a few more. At that time, I had not been an avid collector and only got some because it was the only colors in those boxes that I remembered, as a kid, a patch and ribbon wasp was hard to get. There might have been yellow as in Bumble bee but they were, when a kid, too common. I think it was, like 10 cent each so, I splurged to buy 2 or 3 bucks worth. It wasn't very much later until I manged to get the right types I'd had as a kid, white based Wasps and realized these had just cooled. Ha.

That subject only referred to 4 color, red, yellow, green and blue. That, new vs old is known; In MK's old 4-color St. Mary's Cats, the blue and green are opposing each other. This is also the case in this four-color mystery, yet instead of red, it's white.

Colors look right to be and Akro Imperial. For all the chips and scratches, it's what kids called a 'gutter marble' In that I have 100's of dup-up, from marbles factories, industrial areas and lawns or privet homes. Glass doesn't get all chipped up on it's own when buried, concrete and asphalt are the usual culprits for this type of damage. A given that salvage hunters digging in old septic systems or poop pits and buried trash may find marbles chipped up however, surly, they were gutter marbles before they got there. Even ancient glass comes out of the ground without chips, unless it was beat before lost or while recovered. Acidic soils can etch surfaces but that too, does not chip it. Here, as example; is a Dead mint. fire polished pontal, late 1880's or so, a Leighton/Navare that was dug up out of a privet home's yard where the ground freezes every year. It and others I have, mint recovered in dirt piles whenever the EPA conducted 100's-1,000's of homes, schools and factories, changed the soil around 2 feet deep. Was pretty cool digging in and after it rained or in the spring, the dirt gets washed and glass on surface of those piles shinned for easy pickings:

Sunday's best is: 3/4" Elias Greiner Vetters Sohn, Ground pointil oxblood in clear. Fat Tornado core:

That's not overly surprising. Here's a post where I display a bunch of assorted MK's made then: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/27172-mk-monday/?do=findComment&comment=292196

I just bumped into this topic. We sent our daughter to Sweden in 2003, for a summer time Photo school scholarship. She brought this bag back: