YasudaCollector

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.

Here's another guy (Yasuda pinch pontil) that I found a couple days ago in a large jar mostly full of opaque game marbles and older Japanese cat's eyes.

Sure! Technically, I got it all from Aiko. She's been collecting a lot longer than I have.

I think the hardest to find are the pinks/purples. (At least from my experience). But I think those colors were mainly made by the Nippon Special Glass Ball MFG co (all of my purples are crease pontils).

Aiko says if they have a long, spidery crease pontil (not a short pinch pontil) then they were made by another company. That company was the Nippon Special Glass Ball MFG Co Quite a mouthful 😵‍💫

Ooh! Nice finds! 😎 I heard Aiko say that the figure 8's were made from 1936 to 1941.

Thank you guys! 😀 It's so nice being here. I feel like I've found my people!

I'm Aidan Rodriguez (YasudaCollector). Here I am with Aiko's new book. I swear, it felt like Christmas getting it! 🥳🥳🥳

I found 6 of these guys yesterday (a personal record) near Pike Place market in Seattle! All are about 0.9" 🥳 I also found some smaller caged examples in a light Lavendar-ish blue/purple. One of them even has brown on it too!

This one's a more reddish medium purple. 😎

Another shout out to the York Nebraska marble museum!