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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. 🥹

@Roberto Great box

@akroorka Do you call this a slag because of the irregular blobs of white whereas a swirl would have more regular/thinner ribbons of white???

@SequoiaBET So are all Transitionals actually Slags?

I'm only a beginner. A Transitional is hand gathered with a wraparound tail? Do you get both hand gathered and fully machine made Slags?

@shiroaiko Did Japan make purple and white slags?

Going through my Wisplers tonight and discovered a "mouldy/moldy". Went through all the photos on AAM and decided I had made a great discovery. Thought I'd better check over here before making my pronouncement only to discover that @Spn had beaten me by a couple of months. A couple of years back Josh did say that the mouldies were possibly made in England as despite the Master type seams they were all found in the Commonwealth or Europe.

Africa or Hurricane? No difference in the marbles unless you have a headed bag. Different distributors around the world sometimes assigned different names to the same marble. American collectors use the Mega names but try to tell that to a Mexican collector who probably has the greater right. Then there's the European and Australian markets. Vacor itself didn't give a rat's a**e as the collector market concerned them not in the least (until they commissioned the Atmosphere).

@shiroaiko Very good clear information. Thank you Aiko,

@shiroaiko Hi Aiko, I don't remember anything about Japanese marbles older than the Transitionals (1920s?) Were there fully handmades similar to the Greiner from mid 1800s. When did Japan start exporting any type of products around the world? Cheers, Jim

Coreless Swirl?