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Swirl left, wirepull right?

Both just under 5/8.

Erm don't know, not sure why these are foxing me so much, but they are.

5/8.

I would guess 2 swirls on the left (maker suggestions welcome, if so),  2 wirepulls on the right?

All around 5/8.

On 6/16/2025 at 9:24 PM, Ric said:

Finally, here is the 13/16" from the center of the group.

Seeing this beauty gave me the encouragement I needed to make an offer on a lot that has 4 of these opaques & 6/7 transparent wirepulls (and about 60 other marbles that I could do without). Will post pics when they arrive.

20 hours ago, Ric said:

Sorta looks like a messed up crease pontil transitional - maybe Japanese, but it's hard to tell.

Agreed, I have these, which live with my other Japanese transistionals.

8 hours ago, Tommy said:

Rainbo here  nice group found together always like that in a group of marbles 

Yeah, I agree, especially when I consider how long they must have been together for. If I did pass any on, I'd at least keep a neat little trio.

9 minutes ago, Parmcat said:

DM me.  This one is a bit worn, but I don't date want to polish it in any way.  If you're interested, I'm sure we can work something out.

Thanks for the offer, however I think postage may be a little steep!

32 minutes ago, Ric said:

As I recall, these 32-sided glass dies were some sort of a "fortune-telling" instrument.

Yep, you're right. I spotted one included in an Ebay lot of marbles last week and looked up what it was. Weird that this topic should come up so soon on here, and even weirder that only a few days before that, me and my son had been looking up what the most sides a dice can have is. 

I didn't bother bidding, but I'd like to pick one up at some point.

1 hour ago, Ric said:

They may be older, but they look like Rainbos to me. Fortunately, there are folks here that would know better than I so let's see what others say. Quite a few years ago, 100s of NOS boxes like shown in the book turned up empty. I have seen them filled with all kinds of different marbles - mostly Peltiers or Ravenswoods. I dare say the vast majority of these boxes out there today are back-filled.

Aha, thanks for that info. I might offer a few of these up for swaps at some point, if anyone in the UK is interested. 

21 minutes ago, Ric said:

The left looks like a Rainbo to me and the right is a Multicolor Rainbo/Swirl - some may consider the multicolor late NLR era or early Rainbo era.

Yeah, I thought it may be a swirl, but wasn't sure because it's not that "swirly".

Thanks!

I put up the one on the right yesterday on Peltier Tuesdays, then started to wonder more about it.

Both 5/8 and came in a lot including the other group of Peltiers that I just posted.

These all came together and spotting this picture, can see that they probably originated together. I get the feeling they are some of the older Pelts?

They also came with 2 others, which I'll post separately. All 5/8.

Akro corkscrew was my original thought, but the last one I put up, thinking it was a cork,  I was told it wasn't, so I reconsidered this one too, as the swirl isn't that tight. 

Thanks!

Just over 9/16.

No idea, it came with a peltier, but I'm not aware of any pelts like this. 

Any thoughts welcome. 

53 minutes ago, akroorka said:

I agree--hard to ID at this size--pretty weird.

I would probably sort it as a Vitro.,

Nice images--great marble!

Marble--On!!

Thanks, I won't lose sleep over it 😀

Bang on 51/64, very bubbly. I'm really not sure at all with this one.

12 hours ago, akroorka said:

Your images do not suck at all--just crop them a bit.

This one is a WVS--no doubt--probably an Alley Agate.

 

So would the metallic stuff just be furnace crud? It's a lovely feature. 

1 hour ago, Ric said:

Nice gift - still one of the best books out there IMO.

As for the size, it wouldn't surprise me if Vacor made them in different size and 16 mm is a pretty common one, I think.

Good to hear, there isn't a great variety of books over here and I thought this will definitely be useful. I'd been meaning to get it for a while but kept ending up buying marbles instead, so I asked my sister to buy it for me!

Got this for my birthday,  and I think you might be right. 

Size is pretty much exactly 5/8, so would this be a clue?

25 minutes ago, Ric said:

My first thought is Vacor Old Fashioned.

Aha, that is an interesting suggestion, not something I've studied yet.

Out of this collection, it is mainly old stuff, however the few more modern ones do seem to be some Vacors. Thanks, I'll look that way...

5/8

Opaque with translucent areas, swirls surface and into the interior.

Here's some pictures of the peltier that made me think the left hand one is pelt.

Anyone? 😀

@akroorka any thoughts?