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Found some more.

Saw this recently.

Hopefully this eye candy will generate some chatter. Not sure what most of them are, unless they were identified in earlier posts. Would like to know anything, and everything about them. There are some newer ones in the mix, but many came from the 1940s-1950s as mentioned in the original post. My favorites are Group A, and D, but they're all cool.

Group J

Group I

Group H

Group G

Group F

Group E

Group D

Group C

Group B

Group A

Thought at first this might be Kryptonite. Not sure if this has anything to do with marbles, but it's a 3.5 lb chunk of green cullet.

14 hours ago, treetiger said:

Also, I really like your Avatar pic... Hercules?...from Jason and the Argonauts?...pissing off Talos by stealing a broach pin from the 'jewelry box of the Gods?

Yes I see how it could be Hercules. That's Nigel Green. I knew him first from The Ipcress File (1965) as Major Dalby, also starring Michael Caine, Guy Doleman, etc.

32 minutes ago, akroorka said:

We all share here--show us what you have!

Three or four at a time.

I will endeavor to do just that. Need to carve out some More Quality Marble Thyme (MQMT).

@treetigerGreat photos. Wow it's a lot to take in and process. I did start watching a Stephen Bahr video, but with the holidays (not to mention other hobbies, responsibilities, and pastimes) didn't get too far, but I plan to go back. I will continue to reference this thread to review the links, etc. I have poked around on the site a little, and it's got a ton of well organized info. It's a bit overwhelming.

For clarity, did you see any pink cat's eyes in my photos?

This seems like the kind of hobby that once you begin to think you understand it, it's too late, you're hooked, and there's no turning back. It seems like it's really interesting once you get into it. I have a problem where everything I touch turns into a collection, so I have to be careful. I know I'm preaching to the choir.

On 12/25/2023 at 8:02 PM, treetiger said:

Save your black and pink cat's eyes. I think that you might have some other CE's worth saving too! Great collection!!

Are these the pink ones? I thought they looked orange. 

These were the most interesting to me because they looked the oldest.

BTW, this was my favorite one way back when.

3 hours ago, Fire1981 said:

So many types ! This is why we’re all here. If you don’t know what it is just ask. If you know an ID go ahead and post that as well. It feels good when you get one right🔥

RAR

Thanks for the comments.

Just FYI - 

• I don't know for sure what any of these are, or when they might have been made.
• I think the clear ones with the "flower pedal" style colors inside are known as cat eyes.
• My mother gave them to me in a large coffee can about 40 - 45 years ago, and I'm pretty sure they were hers as a child, i.e. the same ones I played with in the 1960s.
• Started binging on marble-centric YouTube videos only in the last day or so, and remembered I had these.
• Today, I sorted them in hopes of further identification.
• Then I found this forum!
• For starters, I'd like to focus on the ones in the bags, which seemed to be a different style. Agate perhaps?  
• Also, the solid colored ones (last photo) seemed interesting. They are smaller, and have slight variations in shape.

More photos as time permits.

Will submit more photos in the coming days. This is fun. Didn’t realize there were so many types.

Rediscovering the marbles I played with as a kid at my grandmother's in the 1960s. Many belonged to my mother, and probably date from the mid-1940s. Some may be newer. Don't know much about them. Just getting started, and don't yet recognize brands, types, or too much marble jargon.