Olddude

ya that seems to be what I'm learning. Thanks :-))

Thanks. Most votes here agree with you. I found a few discussions about Ravenswood; none of the posted pictures or common color descriptions correspond to this marble, but the pattern does for sure agree.

that sounds like a fun hobby for sure. I'm here in CA in the SF Bay area, so "old" is less old than where you are but there's still things to be found. In my work, I've had the chance to discover quite a few things. I'll check out your Iowa Digs. As for the marble: it's sounding like there's no way to tell for sure, huh? It's still fun to find out the possibilities. . . 🙂

I've worked in construction for years. Can't remember exactly when this was, but the job was an old hillside home that had an ancient foundation that had failed, and was sinking into the dirt. we were excavating select areas to pour the new foundation and get the dirt away from the bottom of the house. I found quite a few interesting things on that job, like a few rim-fire large caliber bullet casings, a "Ball" canning jar without the threads for a screw top - just a smooth rim, and a sterling silver teaspoon. And this marble, too. Actually, I think the house was more from 1900 - 1910 now that I think about it. Old, anyway.

thx. It actually is a "find"; it was under a 1920's - era house I was working on. 🙂

Sorry for the delay responding - I had some, ah, "technical problems" this week and no online access. Without calipers, I'd say it's roughly .6 " Here's a couple more shots; is this what you had in mind?

Hey folks, you've been great at helping this newbie; hoping you'll indulge another ID query. I've looked online at a lot of articles and pics, and I'm not sure. .. . Any opinions are bound to be better than mine. 🙂 thanks.

Ya In my search, I saw your post from some years ago where you explained that. Was interesting & informative and made everything a bit less clear 🙂 . No blame though; I appreciate hearing from someone who has that sort of deep knowledge. At the end of the day, it seems to just boil down to is it a cool marble and do people like it enough to want to spend money on it, no matter what it's called? I guess that's not such a bad thing. .

Heh; I just spent 45 minutes looking up "ringers". .. Seems these could be ringers, or imperials, or even moss corkscrew, depending on which "absolute authority" on the internet you want to believe. Wow. I do get that Akro had one name and collectors have another sometimes, but even without that there's a lot of room to play. "Carnelian", or "Red"?

Ah - I should have been more specific . . . my apologies. I do know they are Akro corkscrew. I was wondering what color they would be known as? thx.

Hi everyone. I'm curious what y'all would call these? Thanks!

Thanks. 🙂

Thanks. Can you explain what you mean by "the HTF side"?

Thanks everyone for sharing your expertise here. It's been fascinating, learning about a world I knew nothing about. Is there a good way to learn the monetary value of marbles? How do y'all figure out how much to pay for one that you want to buy?

Is it true that all the "Ade" colors are UV reactive? I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. . . If so, then this one isn't Cherry Ade; it doesn't react at all. The Limeade ones definitely do. As do some others. The big yellow/greenish one was a surprise; is there a name for that one? There are two that glow a clean pure orange, not green (looks more purple/pink in the pic than it is. These colors were really hard to shoot). Wild. Is that last one a ribbon corkscrew? Fun stuff. . . 🙂