Jeff54

Sorry that you misunderstood my intent as it was not meant to insult anybody rather, put the nonsense of the story that apparently 'davesnothere was told by a seller front and center. As far as I am concerned the subject marble is a reject, you are certainly entitled to yours. . Being a reject doesn't insult, I have hundreds of rejects that were dug-up from old factories, many more then just out of the wild.

Sorry but, it's just a reject that is probably A Vacor, which is sold all over Europe too, and that story is plain old nonsense.

No luck on that sorry. It's just a newly created marble, but luck goes to a kid to play with it. If you can find one that wants to.

Agreed. That's a Leighton/Navarre Melted pontal; This one is As made mint

One should be aware of UV light and the sensitivity of children's developing eyes.

I posted this Double ingot cat before, but when comes to a cat show, and while I do have a lot of cat eyes amassed over 30 years, this continues to be my top find. I always expected to see other MK double ingots but none since. Two orange cross-throughs pushed together as 1.

Diamonds or CZs. It's all neat looking stuff but all I can contribute to that is; whenever diamonds are sold cheap, and are crystal clear with no defects it's either stolen, CZ or ka-ching! Score! IE odds are it's CZ.

Well, it's definitely Hand-gathered. By who though? it was fairly easy to just pick a decent idea of that. but then came the Bulgarian scam and things went Wack. They made some that are very difficult to sort but a few things were wrong,. Grinding the pontals were done with a very course grinding stone, the old were done with very fine. . Obviously yours is not ground and not sure but think they didn't make em this big. Here's a bunch of posts with them.

Yikes! That might be a pretty decent treasure. IDK, maybe packets of jade and a bunch of different stones, I couldn't begin to try to ID all that. You best find a local to you custom Jewelry maker/designer who might have the time to sort it. And yeah, Australian black opal can be worth some bucks. It do take an expert to sort that too as it can be found in North and South America too. There's some guys in UTube, miners and Polishers that host interesting podcasts.

Can only guess, but my first impression of the Blue-green 4.37 Ct gem is a Peridot

Naw, that's an Australian black opal, most are actually grey-looking. As to value, it depends on how much flash it has, balance, colors etc. It's probably from the Cooper Pedy mine, as it says. I am no gemologist either but have some raw and polished from Lighting Ridge. Here's the Coober Pedy opal mine : Opal Mining in Coober Pedy: History and Methods - International Gem Society

German 'Beachballs' can be, antique hand-made, (cane-cut patterns), and modern, cat-eye types too.

In the 1990s and or around the turn of the century, JABO shooter-sized marbles had issues while being made and usually got pinpricks on the surface for lack of good quality control.

This is a great set of marbles and packaging. It's been quite some time, over 20 years, but I think I have seen this box before. I can not be absolutely certain but in your photo, bottom left, light blue marble and dark green above it, appear to be Akro and referred to as 'Flinty' by collectors. You can notice that each has a little spot like an eye. Not easy to date this, but that little eye-like mark means they are not hand-gathered. However, almost all of the colors are early so, it's going to date in the late 1920's to early 1930's (Whenever machinery in the glass industry could make marbles without hand-gathered assistance). Otherwise, if they are earlier then those eye-like spots should be the centers of a 9 pattern which is the mark of being hand-gathered. Just on a guess, especially for the whole set of these early colors, which are, moreover a revelation as, very little is known as to what Akro chose or was created in solid colors like this, I do not like to estimate worth but this is different because one should realize; due to the rarity, ya don't want to let it slip by. It could be valued, as is, in the $500+ range. For the history of machine-made marbles, Akro Agate's first colors were stolen from the M. F. Christensen and Son company by their accountant {Edit: Bookkeeper} Horrace Hill, who had brought them and other items of theft and embezzlements to Akro Agate which was the foundation of the Akro company. . Albeit, if the marbles are hand-gathered then the value could be two to three times that. Here's the marble collector who'd probably know the most about it, as it's Craker Jack Gold too: Cracker Jack Prize Collector Jim Davis - Country Roads Magazine

Not seeing a R & T. It's a lovely red, but maybe a later (Post H-G) Akro

"For me and (my opinion) that the true "Ctirus" must contain someplace, (yellow) in it for the (banana)." Banana is not a Fruit.

Oh, I forgot I'd made this photo, over 20 years ago. While most of my photos are machine-made, I got bunches of German, cane-cut too.

It is that, "Colorless" or crystalline, and a tone that is white that you can see in the yellow and blue Bananas, in the photos posted on this. White is not considered a color, albeit that's a debate that has no end. .

This came from a lady who brought it from Germany and her "Childhood favorite". . It seems to be A Transitional, Hand-gathered, Machine-made even with a few flecks of mica inside the green. I think it was about 1991-3 when I'd met her so, I reckon it was about 1910 when her family immigrated. I've never seen any other like this in all that time.

Cat Soup: Ohara Hale

I always nick-named these as Vitro Fat-cats.

Blue/Yellow Popeye patch.

Not so sure, as a fellow collector of old marbles, if you knew the whole story and why Berry Fox did that, you'd be very happy.