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The bubbles in the glass can be caused by many things, making glass from raw materials or cullet. Some problems that can cause the bubbles, temperature, air to gas raitio, amount of exhaust, time, to much or to less of a ingredient, etc. Mid Atlantic of WV, their main production was clear crystal glass items. The glass had to be 100% clear no bubbles at all. The furnace where they made the batch held twenty tons of glass. I was there one day and they were having trouble with what they called seedy glass, bubbles. The owners, a engineer and the old timers had worked with it for about twenty four hours and no change. I was back there the next evening and they(6 workers)were ladling, emptying out onto the floor the 20 tons of glass. The next day shift would make a new batch. I was back two days later and the same thing, bubbles again. That afternoon a maintenance man was greasing bearings on roof fans. He noticed one out of four exhaust fans for the glass tank had the belts broke. He replaced the belts and the bubbles in the twenty ton furnace cleared up. Of course the larger things are the more each problem is magnified. Clean sand and particle size is important but sand causing bubbles may be down the long list of causes. The bubbles are usually from a equipment problem or human error. Heating to fast or to slow can cause problems. The debris can be from not so clean sand, or from the actual furnace bricks. Or in the cullet if cullet is used. There are different quality in furnace bricks. Some last longer and take higher heat than others. Of course the higher quality cost more. When the bricks begin crumbling off, it may be time to build a new furnace. But if orders were behind, they probably kept running it.

I agree Peltier and Kokomo had similar furnaces or tanks and glass feed systems to marble machines. Any marble machine could make this marble round. Not any machine made marble company had a different certain specfic machine for every different size and type looking marble they produced. They could not afford that. You can make swirls, patch., patch and ribbon, ribbon design marbles all on the same exact marble machine. There was no machine that made only swirls. There was no machine that made only patch marbles. There was no machine than made only patch and ribbon marbles. There was no machine that put the bubbles in the marbles. There was no marble machine that added colors in any certain way. The marble machine is the very last piece of equipment used in the process. It makes the hot glass glob round. There are no magical marble machines that made a certain style or type marbles. Vitro machines made Jabo swirls for years. Akro machines has made Marble King marbles. Cairo Novelty machine made Jabos. Jabo made swirls and patch or patch and ribbion marbles all on old original Vitro machines. All the Jabo special investor runs 3/4 inch marbles were all made on a old 3/4 Vitro machine. It made ribbon marbles at Vitro, then swirls at Jabo. Not once but for years and years, millions and millions a year of each style or type marbles. I may never see it, but one day this old myth of a certain marble machine making only certain style or type marbles will disappear. But once it is in print, even if it is later known to be wrong, it is almost impossible to change. The marble above could have been made round on a Vitro or a Heaton machine, or Sammys Mountain Marbles machine.

Cool shirt.

I will agree. I thought I saw gray in the original. It was probably faded green.

The boulders 7/8 and one inch are the most difficult. Nola got a group of twelve 15/16 and one inch from Canada.

I have never heard of seen a red one. Clear, green, purple and blue there are probably some root beer or brown colored ones.

Merry Christmas to all ! Have a great 2022. Every year goes by faster that the last.

Lots of the Codd bottle marbles were bullet mold marbles. Codd also made and sold the marbles for his type bottles. Cuba was a big producer and use of Codd bottles into the 1960's or later.

Alley Blue lady above. The second Alley that I ever named. Blue Sky was the first. The Blue Lady was my X wifes favorite Alley. Blue base=sky pink=lady - Blue Lady Blue base=sky white=white clouds - Blue Sky Blue base=sky red= blood - Blood Sky Yellow/brown base= tater bug pink=Lady - Lady Tater

All Alley to me.

Agree. To bad it is rough. These are hard to find at this size.

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The green is a rough CAC swirl, or striped opaque. Maybe striped transparent ? The blue and white is rough Alley swirl with a little bit of green aventurine and a roll mark.

Mega marbles are Vacors.

Vitro Chic Pea. In the Vitro Pea group, Sweet Pea-Black Eye Pea-Chic Pea. It has the similar orange and yellow as the Sweet Pea, but on a clear base.

I am not 100% sure on the last one being Champion. Just from the pictures and the closet thing that I know of. I have never seen the original in any original Ravenswood package, or dug at Ravenswood. The ones pictured below are from a Champion worker who has passed on. I had them verified by Dave McCullough. He was Champion plant manager, according to him when these were made. They were made at the end of the New Ole Fashion run. I see many of these listed routinely on Ebay as Ravenswood. There are some listed currently as Ravenswood. I have not seen any marble book author who has not printed a mistake. Many reasons why. I have witnessed that first hand more than once. Pictures depend on how accurate they look like the actual marble. That is all we have to go with here. My pictures are just a little brighter than the marbles in hand. It is because of the bright day light bulbs that I use trying to show detail. Plus the marble is a lot closer to the camera lens than with your eyes and the marble in hand. Even a different background can make a marble look different. Below are several Champions that are often mistaken as Ravenswood Novelty. Not all but most common mistaken as Ravenswood marbles. Hopefully this will help identify some in the future. Some may want to keep this some way to refer back to. Lots of pictures.

Marble King and Akro or Master. Master color combination but I agree, If both cut lines are more straight cut then Akro. If a U shape and or pointed cut line then Master.

It looks like you have a blue light or uv light on it. I am not sure what the colors are. I don't see any white.

Alley first choice. Veiligglas second choice. Alley Alley Last one Champion.

Big crap shoot.

Ravenswood Alley Alley ????