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I guess that means, blue isn't as Evil as black. Calligraphy is what this falls under: Letters words, numbers etc. and in most cases that makes it special, above the others like it.

And probably why it was saved as a special marble by evil marble player who'd use to intimidate competitors. Off the cuff: for the long thin continuous strand of black and white randomly running throughout; Alley Agate especial exclusive for back alley dark games. 😄

The best in Sunday's category that took several years to find or confirm whether it existed,. For that matter, because nobody had heard or seen one before. . I had a big one that's electric, thought by all others to be a CAC but in the long run, it turned out to be a double tunnel and odd at that too because, it's Electric. Got plenty double tunnel and there's a nice bright orange is some, it doesn't blend like my big one does. CAC are Electric because; it's two opaque heavy pigmented colors blending, that makes them bright! the big one has it too via white and green blend. This was of the main reason I searched. Didn't know about double tunnels then. Searched for years for a 5/8" to confirm my big one was undeniable CAC or not. When it comes to colors on a stripped transparent, and I believe very few know this too: This is the rarest color to find on this verity. While passing through Cambridge one Suday, years ago, I visited the whole town, talked with the old barber, hit up the bus storage and maintenance facility, (where the golden vein is) hit a few antiques, junk stores and there is was. Electric green striped transparent. It's clear inside of it. I stumbled on my old photo yesterday inside my mail folder:

A bit late for this party but: With respect to Ron's adventures in digging up old sites and virtually getting to the bottom of many WV swirls, fraid I have to disagree on the Alley Strawberry shortcake thoughts. And get back to how it fits into the CAC and maybe into the Akro H-G category. . Boy, I've had a mint set for many years where you have this tan ribbon with a transparent red or orange and clean bright white and only recently noticed ya'll found a place I can file em. So, lets start what's different: Transparent red/orange lines,: Chicken diner on that. Tanish color, like the red and white all, always remain reasonably separate; add some salt and pepper to spice the chicken and the table is ready. That's why I picked out a set many years ago, wondering if CAC or what? Variations of this style got added in my tray through the years, where some blending of the white gets into the red and becomes even better looking but they all fit, for the transparent line, to one maker with the tan and bright white. No photos but found on the net derived from WV marbles site There you have it: Three colors that, for the most part, remain separated enough to distinguish OP's blended as in; mixed in one bucket (Tank) which is not how an Alley Strawberry shortcake was created. Here's another at Grandpa's site which is the same three colors too, Link: gm1973 MINT 19/32" Alley Agate Co. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE Swirl (grandpamarble.com)

The only marble I've ever seen with black like yours and tiger orangish and white, is a Master Tiger eye. Could swear I have one but seems to be hiding. I think the colors answer this and leave just one: black: MM vs Vitro. All the MM's I have with black are like Peltier's, that are actually a very dark green. In my Vitro box: IDK as a lot of ya'll have continued marching in this direction more than I, but all the blacks are dark purple.

Peltier: 'Clear Rainbow'

Indeed Indeed Jason. You've stumbled on a treasure. At this time period, Akro did not make your marbles The M.F. Christensen and Son Company did. It is very rare to find sets inside original boxes. To know that Akro Agate did not make these and their original glass colors, has been a struggle since the boom of collecting machine made spheres; the very same "Constantly changing axis' principal and machinery patent to do it, even now, today; nothing makes toy marbles better.

The swirl of the glass where a figure 9 can be seen is not an intent 'Design' by anybody. It's just the impression left in all hand-gathered glass and several other objects. Taffy and hard candy gathered from a mixed pot does the same. In Glass, this gathering 'technique' goes back thousands of years. I mean, as example, it would not surprise me if Moneys gathered Honey on a stick before humankind. Or stick a finger in it, twirl finger and Wa La! you're gathering around your finger. Egyptians are known to have made glass, yet that was paste glass (Phoenician) which today, children could construct just like Play-Do or modeling clay.. Greek and Roman period began making fluid glass and gathered the same way, today and yesterday, it is unavoidable. . Leaving a 9 spiral impression: 'Monkey see, monkey do,' is just that simple Just happens to be Nature or rather; a force of resistance everywhere in the universe.

I lean on MFC's when the glass is smoother than this. Accordingly, Michael Cohill said: MF Christensen had very high-quality standards to 'Make the perfect spere.. It's nowhere near proving that's a reliable assumption, smooth glass or who's is cleaner looking, just something that the dude who's discovered and researched more than anybody, kind-a falls into 'Something's better than nothing'. Who Made 'Imitation Agate' in, pretty much, the same color as others, everything is possible. And I kind-a like putting the Akro Slag department, in the 'not smooth enough for the king of machine-made's quality control, feels good too. . 😊

I think you should take this blue, the red and white, the blue, yellow and brown and keep them together while looking for others that are similar. They may be out of a bag or box once. All those jars of marbles nice and minty groups might lead you in a direction where you put old, disorganized company's back together.

Did you get these all together at same time? Sometimes, out in the wild, people discover sets that had originally been in factory bag, box, etc., it looks possible here.

Not 'Deep red' enough on the Joe. Moreover, in the case of cane-cut Germans and what's considered Oxblood, it'll be much more on the brown side..

Tornado, Hurricane, Cyclone, Cobra and Galaxies: The JWT Phantom has raised the bar.

Barker's spinning cup was designed to twirl randomly so, in boxed sets there would be variations of cutting the gob off. This would make patch, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4. up to 2 twists: if U feeling lucky, all at the same time it was running. So, yeah, that's a set.

My screen or is this purple?>

Pretty nice mint marble. Never seen brown cover a Christensen Agate like this but, that thick pigment rich opaque 3, brown, blue and yellow colors blending together in a fat ribbon. That's Christensen Agate.

Yeah, I am not seeing Jabo or coral in yours Dave. But I lost track years ago as it's gotten mind boggling with all the stuff and or custom verities since 2008. No more toys 4 tods at like, 5 bucks+ a pop. Anyway, beige, tan or taupe if the colors are showing right, not pink. But what throws me is the transparent red-orange, that's not anything I've seen in something like yours before. That transparent on it, causes hesitation, that made me wonder: if Jabo or Dave and Pals were going for a coral thingy. When did Jabo toss this together? Or for that matter, [dare I ask because I may not want to know🥴] when did anybody?

SW Florida, not as beach party as they'll say in summer vacation promotions unless you are at the beach and there's an on-shore breeze. Yet not far inland, HOT! It's sunny here alright yet cloudy days are so much better and cheaper on my A/C electric bill and everything else to do with outside. At a mere 85 degree that sun can burn your hair off, sweat the pig and roast a goose. Rainy Season: The most rain I've seen in 12 years. We usually get nice early mornings all year until the sun chases me away with its ray gun. 😉

Yeah, that's the thing that only Master's seem do. A couple or more patches smeared on the surface, has been of my favorite when I first encountered one with red too orange, blue and white, which can be blended smoothly on the surface were the clear allows a window. The tone of the clear can vary between different companies, but this is a what, for lack of chemical substance or a scientific means to describe it: pure clear quartz white or white diamond. Very similar to Peltier's clear banana and many CAC cobra/cyclones as well. Albeit the clear can mix and get diluted;, best when it's not. I have blue and white that blends too, with a window that, peering through it, as with others, magnifies the inside of the patches when smeared or close to the surface like a few of these have. . As it goes, the window feature seems to be random but, pretty much seals the deal: It's a Master Made marble that does not appear in their later corporate restructure into Master Glass Co..

Been long time as, I don't collect contemporaries either, but I've seen lots of Scott's some time ago and he would put a tiny swirl or two. 'Was it 1 or two?' I Think it was two. You've got 2 and maybe another.

That has Scott's signature on it too. I know he got a kick out of folks that didn't see it. Do you know where?

Tricky guy OP askes that appears as if it's got an extra feather or vein that makes 5 and not 4 . So, double tricky and color looks so weak, with potential of 5, or not, I'd refer to foreign-Asian, for lack of better wit to who made what.

Straight cut one side and curve the other, patch on end with hints of ribbons blending on sides; tastes like a blended Marble King. Edit: I regress. That straight and curve is closer to a Peltier which it does not seem to be. Straight and straight is more indictive of a Marble King, yet I have plenty dug-up from Paden and not dug examples too. Some, not many but, do have straight and curve. So, while not the norm, still think best odds are a Blended MK. And, BTW, I have dug-up translucent MK's too. And Orange? I have orange in some but doubt a regular Patch and ribbon in just orange and white. However, regardless, it says MK to me.

While I have some pewees 3/8"-1/2" with different flavors, the smallest of what ya'll call MCS is a whopping 17/32. And it's an unusual Kryptonite blending yellow-orange ribbons 'super boy' Where the base on Superman and Superboy usually blue; it is closer to jade. So it was probably bigger, but the Kryptonite must have shrunk the shrimp before it cooled. 😀

To be sure, it's a fake any way U look at it..