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I would not call the Destroyer "speckled". It has a very rough frit surface.

@shiroaiko We are all hoping that you may be able to share photos of family marbles after a successful meeting.

A Vacor Confetti is a single colour cat's eye. The frit marbles have names such as Stelaris, Stardust and Glitter. The Mega Marble list gives a starting year for when each type went into America (could be older than that?) but went on for years and I don't think you can age them.

@KBL104 Single colour on clear is Stardust and single colour on white is Glitter. The Galaxys are not a rough frit. From vague memory they are a "paint spots" called something like Salpicadura? (I have not looked that up} Looked it up out of curiosity and salpicadura is Spanish (Mexican) for sprinkling or splashing.

@akroorka What an absolutely amazing photo showing all those subsurface moons from many multiple playing hits. I love the hand faceted agates from the 1800s as you know they were produced to genuinely be used as play marbles. Showing moons, even better. Then there are the later machine rounded which only interest me if they were actually played with many years ago shown by the moons. All the different rounded mineral samples I consider to be purely decorative items unrelated to marbles (except for shape only). @Roberto That is a very classy book.

Agree with @Al Oregon A Vacor Confetti is single colour cat's eye. Lots of people wrongly call the frit marbles Confetti.

If you found it in the wild in America then probably an American maker about which I know very little.

Brown base or clear base?

I don't know who the first person was to mistakenly write "Whispler" probably because they thought it looked like a more "sensible/normal" word than Wispler without knowing the reason behind the name. It just irks me a little the mob in all countries who have just blindly followed.

Interesting that people often mention the Irene Opaques are less common than the Irene Wisplers. Out here in Australia I have collected 4 or 5 times as many of the opaques as I have of the Wisplers. Unless we were somehow getting beautiful Asians in the 1950s 60s? If that was the case then I don't know who was making or distributing them. Imperial Toy Corporation only started 1969 and distributed Vacors during the 1970s before shifting to Asians in the 1980s.

Roberto. Please note the correct name is Wispler. In 2011, on the other forum, the esteemed Canadian collector Roger Browse (browse4antiques) posted that he had named them years prior (from WISPy sparkLER). A "proper" English dictionary did not even contain the word "whispy" at that stage (not sure about now?) I think "whispy" might be the only word in the American language where they have actually added a letter to an English word rather than their usual practice of subtracting one or more letters LOL. I believe that he who comes first retains the naming right.

If you got these from Canada as well then not much doubt they are Wisplers.

Any part of the British Commonwealth is good for Wisplers.

Possibly/Probably Depending on which country you got it from?

It will be a lot duller here without him. 🥹