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No problem Shamrock. I agree there is a typographical error in this article as you point out above. How unfortunate that you dismiss the validity of this article on that point alone. This article was written by the Vice President of The Vaseline Glass Collectors Club, Inc. and is highly respected in the glass collecting world. They have a wonderful website. To each their own. Enough said on this issue I think.

There is plenty of misinformation found using google - something I thought we who conduct in-depth research would know by now. Your short quotes are incomplete information and incorrect - Canary glass is not the same thing as the more modern blanket term "Vaseline glass." None the less I digress to say again your marble has nothing to do with authentic Canary glass. As far as your Golden Onyx Oxblood marble being a rare, documented and purposeful Akro product - I see no evidence of that. You as the owner are free to call your possessions anything you wish, but it doesn't make it so in the rest of the world. I was able to copy a partial and correct explanation of the Canary/Flint/Lime/Vaseline research article shown below. Do with this information as you wish. Sorry for the sizing and order which is backwards , but this site has the weirdest upload system.

Personally I think there is no reliable way to sort this type by age. Unless you are comparing HGs to MMs which would be an obvious clue in the timeline, these were all made around the same time. Mid to late 20s is my guess - maybe into the early 30s. Each batch of glass can vary in several ways and some batches turn out 'nicer' than others but are still all of the same era. For example I've seen Akro's early Egg Yolk yellows vary - depending who is shoveling in perhaps inexact amounts of components into the furnace - and temperature fluctuations where the glass got too hot and darkens or has more muddys colors. Sometimes it is a chemical reaction from certain components of various formulas or cullet. This has nothing to do with early or late - there was a variance with mass produced marbles, and there still is. That "Golden Oxblood" just looks like the product of what I just described. Not a different named marble from the regular Egg Yoke Ox. Just a slightly burnt example. Just my own opinion.

justglass.com/documents/articles/reyne/canary.html I tried to drag and drop the above link which is an excellent synopsis on Canary glass/ flint glass/ and the evolution to lead and then soda lime glass. Looks like my effort failed. This is one website that has the facts on Canary glass/ Flint glass/ and soda lime glass as an evolution. Google it I guess.

Real Canary glass is made of a flint based formula - not a lime based formula (Vaseline glass). Due to the production time period of examples such as yours (after 1900) you can be sure none of the marble factories were using flint. The presence of iron does cause a more greenish than pure yellow - and even some early flint based Canary glass shows some tinges of green. Classifying this marble is more about the formula (lime vs.flint) not the color. Both types of glass have tone variations from yellow to green. All uranium bearing marbles are lime based and not Canary flint glass.

There are lots of different reasons why and how people collect. It's a very individual thing. There is no wrong way to collect- unless you are collecting as an investment commodity and are under-educated.

Those are modern dip-dyed ceramic marbles made by Laura Berretti out of Italy.

No - your marble is a Ravenswood. A Peltier Cannonball has sparse white ribbons on a dark black/brown base that's entirely loaded with AV - the best ones have very very little white. The dark AV loaded base should make up the vast majority of the marble to qualify as a Cannonball.

Cool Rainbo - but not a Dragons Eye which is an NLR, as seen here:

The green base swirl is an early Vacor Wicked Owl.

Personally I don't see how spin direction in a fully machined SWIRL marble is important or plays any part in company identification. Akro used the spinner cup to obtain the CORKSCREW pattern which controlled the end result. SWIRLS (not corkscrews) are completely directionally random. Overall pattern, glass quality and color(s) are what makes an ID.

I do a little wood sculpting from time to time and love to see the different types of wood grain patterns. I also love visual puzzles...so I'll guess! Table-Oak, Top left- Maple, Bottom left- Rubber, Right-Walnut . I also really like your shorebird sculpture and it gives me a good idea for my next project!

Yes to Ravenswood - beautiful old glass and I would call it an early premium type.

Classic Ravenswood.

Not a Christensen. RAVENSWOOD.