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I hoped that my amateur, partially complete answer might trigger something great and in depth description. Maybe one day which I can give myself but I'm still don't have it committed to memory. Thank you all for filling in the chasm so wonderfully! And with photos and other versions and companies. I did search the Internet before I made my reply to try to supply some but found few And could not validate their accuracy. Certainly a great refresher for me!!!! I'm gonna add this to the archive as a seperate link.

Yes, both. It looked like Akro. Then the ox is swirled, applied to the marble, the general characteristics that made me say Akro. A Peltier might be applied more in a ribbon, from only a few I have seen. I have read that Peltier Oxblood was more an accident of the chemical process involved rather than direct application but maybe somebody can read in here on oxblood for other companies. Here's a group of my Akro oxbloods that I use for study and comparison.

Can't wait!!!!

There's a copy of a patent submission by Peltier 1931, granted 1934, showing how they have a stream of glass and into which they inject 6 color streams to produce 3 stripes on one side and 3 on the other #17 on the drawing. It has been color coded so that you can see where the different colors of glass would originate and melt. One doesn't know if they actually even produce this but it is on file! I am sure that there are all sorts of wonderfully complex ways to inject glass into and onto other glass!

It looks like Akro Oxblood to me.

I have mint condition Asian Cat's Eyes with that green cast to the glass from my childhood, 3 colors, about a dozen of them and a several Boulders, all which I love!

Kidney stones? I know them too well. I've had dealt with them for many years. No fun.

Yeah, seems the 5-colors is stretched a bit...

Wow!!! Nice collection!!!

Akro Sparkler!!! The sharp focus helps alot.

Indeed.... 🥂

Hi, Chad. Here's wishing you get well quickly and smoothly!! Sometimes a path back to health can be a little of a roller coaster ride of up and down. Jere's hoping yours is all smooth sailing! Dale

You have really said this well, Jeff54. I have collected dozens of categories and things over the years and those are all manufactured, as well. But the manufacturer's tolerances and the volumes that were produced are significantly different than what you see with marbles. Marbles were made by the millions and millions, by machines at 250 a minute 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by machines lined in a row, factory after factory, poured out in stunning numbers. I read a wonderful little story of a girl in Sistersville, West Virginia, I believe, who would go to sleep at night and hearing the distant sound of the marble making machines just outside of town! Then to ship them out, some filled up box cars. Train box cars! Full train box cars of marbles! Master Marble used a million marbles just to create their exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago!!! It is an uncommon work situation that even your boss walking up to you and talking to you for 10 or 15 minutes about something, could cause the output of the machine that your monitoring to go wonky enough to create thousands of marbles that don't look like what they're supposed to. Then you turn back to the machine and go, "I got to fix this", and you fix it and you just move on. But thousands of marbles were made out of spec for the design but are good enough to pass inspection and off they go! And then, one single one of those ends up in someone's hands 60 years later, it can be quite confusing! They were pennies to purchase, to be just children's toys that were thought of so low that mothers threw them away by the millions when the kids moved out!! I don't think very many people that are starting to collect marbles understand the volume that were manufactured or the variances that can occur. I know I didn't!!!!! I swear, the more I learn, the less I know. Things I could identify quickly and easily 4 months ago I can't seem to recognize today even with a name tag hanging around their neck! However it's just fun and interesting and exciting and the variance is part of the magic because the range and variance of beauty and art and fabulous things for the eyes is what you don't get in other collecting!!

I'm sitting here looking at my Master Sunbursts that I was using to ID the last one but I can clearly see that it is an Akro Sparkler and have no idea how I missed it before.

Yeow!! That is a massive collection! Love seeing all the original packaging!! What a blast you will have!! And us too, if we get to see any of the details!

Weird photos but looking Jabo.

x2

Missed that inquiry... x2 not oxblood.

1st - Cool!! IDK 2nd - Vitro Helmet 3rd - Master Sunburst

Oh!!! You may be completely correct! Yeow!!! Hope you find some nice treasures in there!

Nice! I love UV!

Nice piece!

I agree that it looks like old and newer hand mades. You have more than 100,000 marbles to sort thru? Yikes! That's a big collection and could have amazing things in it!

I was so excited about the information this information that apparently I couldn't wait to apply it and applied it elsewhere incorrectly. Oh, man, it's hilarious!

Wheeeee!!!