YasudaCollector

This guy has a definite orange peel texture to it.

I also found this guy (in the same store, but in a different group of marbles):

I recently got a whole bunch of these marbles together in a big jar (mixed in with mostly game marbles). They look foreign, but a little different from the Asian cat's eyes I have (the base glass looks very shiny and is pretty grayish). The vein colors look very dingy too (even more so than the Taiwan and India cat's eyes I've seen). I was wondering if they could be some sort of Mexican product, since Mexico was the largest producer of foreign cats eyes besides Asia.

Here are a couple I got from an Oklahoma ebay seller: One is a Yasuda pinch pontil and the other looks like a Nippon crease pontil.

Awesome marbles! I am always stunned by the tremendous variety of German handmades. Those craftsmen way back when were so outrageously talented! 🤯🤯🤯

That guy is awesome!!! The color and swirls are amazing.

I apologize, but I am probably the last person on the forum that could identify different West Virginia swirls. 🤣 I get cross eyed sometimes when I try to tell them apart. 😵‍💫

I wonder if the yellow guy is a JABO. I've seen them come in weird yellow and brownish color combos. The second guy (very nice colors) looks to me like maybe an older West Virginia swirl.

Interestingly enough, most of the pre-war Japanese marbles seem to be Nippon products, not Yasuda. For example, Aiko seemed to say that she comes across far fewer pinch pontil transitionals than crease pontil transitionals.

I have a few of these, and asked Aiko about them. She thinks they were made by Nippon as well during the same time as the figure 8's.

Unfortunately, I don't think they have any particular name to them. I think they just fall into the vague "Japanese patch marble" category.

As for the individual marbles, the first four look like more figure 8's. The two slags at the end look like Japanese transitionals (the first looks like Nippon Special Glass Ball MFG Co product). The second one could be a Yasuda pinch pontil (since I can't see a big crease pontil).

Ooh, the first group looks like figure 8 marbles. Aiko says they were made by the Nippon Special Glass Ball MFG Co from 1936 to 1941.