YasudaCollector

I even found some of these guys in my collection. They look almost exactly like Japanese cat's eyes, but the vein structure/shape is slightly different and the glass itself seems newer and crisper.

I've been very interested in The World of Cat's Eye Marbles for a couple years and finally got it last week. For any newbies out there, I would seriously recommend getting it since it goes into detail about some of the more commonly found Asian cat's eyes and how to tell them apart by country (something we all probably thought was impossible). I was really interested in the segment on China in particular. (how Maoist China snuck cats eyes into Hong Kong where they were re-packaged and sold to non-Communist countries). My dad was even shocked to see that some of his favorite childhood cat's eyes came from China in all likelihood. He played marbles in the late 60s and early 70s, and bought one of the exact same packages pictured in the book. It was a Hong Kong balloon bag full of single color 3 or 4 vein cats eyes (marbles exactly matching those produced in mainland China).

Yep, this guy looks like a textbook Japanese transitional (probably 1920s to 1930s).

Here are some I picked up recently (on ebay): The seller was very kind and included the green one as an extra.

I find these fairly often, so I've stuck them in this big bait box.

Here is my collection:

Those look awesome!

Awesome finds guys! 😎

Yeah, the first guy looks like it has a pinch pontil. It's probably a 1930s Yasuda.

The transparent ones are all around 0.70" and the big orange and white guy is 0.76".

Here are some more I got from the Nebraska marble museum.

Nice one!

I think the one in picture 3 is Chinese (like 1930s or 1940s).

Nice NLR's! 😎

Awesome find! 🤯

Neat find! Metallic ones are always interesting.

These guys are all 1 inch shooters (I like the crudeness of them).

These look a lot like the 1970s ish "made in Taiwan" cat's eyes:

This guy's funny, I looked very closely all over the marble, but I couldn't see any pontil at all. Was the pinch/crease line smoothed out in the marble making process?

Awesome! So would these be 1960s ish Japanese?

Thank you so much for posting this! 🙂 I live only a couple hours away from Anacortes. There's probably tons of these marbles in western Washington. I was also always curious about how to differentiate these guys from other vitro/JABO products.

The gray base glass is super seedy and fizzy. I think there's some dark frit from the oven mixed into the bubbles.

By the way, I just found this guy a couple of days ago:

Sorry for the typo at the end. 😅