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A Vitro Parrott has to have four colors other than white. This marble looks nothing like a Parrott or Easter Egg.

Master and they made lots of 7/8 size.

Still to far away. The gray is probably Alley. The white /orange is probably Alley. The green maybe Heaton Chocolate Chip Mint. But it is to far away to know for sure ? The clear base would need closer for more detail and views. It may be a cat eye or a sunset or ??????????

Type two and type four are the most difficult to find. About ten to fifty times harder to find than Type one or type three. Type one are about 25 cents each. Type two are about $10.00 each. They show no white. Type three are about 25 cents each. Type four are usually 25 cents. But should be much more. Because people do not realize they are harder to find. They are opaque. All About Marbles had or has a color rarity chart for Vitro Tiger Eyes, by Karen Day.

More left twist what ?

Left hand twist handmades old and new. But how would you have a left hand twist Akro cork ? They were machine made and made by the spinner cup. Which probably always turned in one direction only.

Likely Alley drizzle.

The majority of Tri Lites have clear glass. It looks Pelt Rainbo to me.

Vitro patches. Same construction as All Red but no red. Red was the most costly color. If they ran out of red they did not shut the furnace down. They just used what ever they had. The worst thing on a glass furnace and marble machine is to shut it down. Everything can freeze up solid, all the metal begins to rust in just a few hours. The longer a marble machine runs the better the marbles surface will be. After a marble machine sits cold for hours or days. The rolls rust, when it is moved under a furnace the marbles for the first half hour are junk. Or a 7/8 size machine can take a hour to get the rust run off of the rollers. After a marble machine runs 24hrs. a day for two or three days straight. The rolls will look like chrome. Keep everything running steady 24hrs. a day or lose the most important thing. Marble per minute to stay in business. Marbles per minute, 250 per minute or more, 24hrs a day, seven days a week , week after week if at all possible.

Alleys from the St.Marys WV location.

Correct. I named those back about 2006. All made at the Pennsboro WV location. Blue Sky-Blue Lady-Blood Sky-Stormy Sky . The Blue Sky is the most common.

I agree with Vitro. No part of the marble machine spreads any glass onto the base glass. The marble machine is just a set of grooved rollers which make the hot glass glob round. The base glass and colors come together upstream, well before the hot glass glob hits the marble machine rollers. The colors can be added to the base glass inside the main furnace from the front top or at the front end sides of the main furnace. Or just before the glass stream exits the furnace outlet orfice feeding the hot glass to the shear. Then the elongated orange hot glass glob falls from the shear down into a cup with a hole in the bottom or tube to the marble machine rollers. Where it is rounded into a marble. The marble machines only job is to make the hot glass glob round. It takes a different marble machine with different size rollers for each size marble made. Making 7/8 inch marbles and switch to 5/8 inch. Roll out or remove the 7/8 machine and roll in the 5/8 size roller machine under the furnace outlet. All the time while the 1800 degree F glass is constantly flowing. While a marble machine is out from under the furnace, the hot glass is puddled on the floor or into a metal catch can. The hot glass puddle is pulled out of the way and the different size marble machine is moved in under the furnace outlet. The hot glass puddle may be 50lbs. or 300lbs. depending on time. That is moved outside to cool or water added at a distance to fracture it for disposal later. Marble machines are moved in and out under the furnace outlet often. When some problems happen, the machine has to be moved out of the way to correct the problem. A marble machine operator is a very hot dangerous job, with the lowest pay. Marbles were and are very very cheap kids toys. Much less than a penny each. Millions made by many companies per week.

Akro-Akro-Master

Alley

Notice the painting in the background. That is the one and only original, and from Berry Pinks office. Berry Pink was Beri Fox's godfather. The Marble King Marbles box sets above were filled and sold by Berry Pink, not the Marble King Company. Berry Pink wanted to be know as and was known as the Marble King.

A friend of mine Felica Delp and on the left another friend Marble King owner Beri Fox in her office at the factory.

7/8 inch 7/8 inch

Parrots all have white base and four other colors, no matter what size. The white base with a red patch and a gray patch is One of the top three most common Vitro marbles a All Red. All Red named by the company. All Red is white base one patch of red and a different colored patch other than red, no matter what size.

Crazy price. PM sent to you yesterday.

At one and a half inch size machine made, about the only choice at all is Vacor. Alley or any US swirl maker never made any that size.

This is how we all learn. The more opinions and discussion, the more accurate things will end up in the long run. None of us will always be correct. If I ever think that I am close to having all the answers correct. I will leave marbles. A good thing, always learning something new or changed with the most updated info. It keeps marble collecting interesting for years and years.

Champion or Ravenswood ?

Looks Akro to me.