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Sad news. My condolences to his family. A marble Ambassador for sure. It will take several people to replace him and what all he did.

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Is it telling you which rocks look like the marble ? Looks like it may be matching up certain colors ? Maybe trying but poor job matching the design or pattern of the marbles colors. Have you tried a cat eye or sparkler ? I don't think it will ever pick up the aventurine. There is no aventurine in a rock. I also don't think many rocks glow under black light. What does a oxblood rock look like ? There are several variations of oxblood for marbles.

Looks like aventurine. Those are strange to me.

Tough ! I am really torn between CAC and Alley for both ??? The left being 5/8 and showing lots of age. I would say no to Jabo. I have CAC with these color combos but not positive about the dark red base ? Alley used a dark red base with grays, browns, creamy yellows, early on at the Sistersville location. I am going to say 55% chance CAC and 45% chance of Alley. All because of the swirl designs and cut lines. But they could easily be Alley ?

That 1/2 blue-1/2 green Alley flame is unusual and nice. It is very interesting. Someday maybe I will find one of those for a example.

Only Chad can answer if his marble glows or not ? Do all CAC Snotties react to black light ? I cannot answer that for sure. But I would not be surprised at all if some did not and some did. I think the Snotties were probably made from cullet and not batch glass. When scrap glass is used to make marbles. You get what ever was in the glass to begin with. The original CAC Snotties were all clear base with the snot green colored swirling with no cut lines showing. Like those posted above. Then as always people wanted their marble to be a CAC Snottie. So they stretched the name and included any clear base CAC and single colored swirl without cut lines were sold as a Snottie. I have seen people selling peach, red, blue, yellow, etc. clear base single color CAC swirls as Snotties. It is simple, a CAC Snottie should look like snot. That is why it got the name. Sometimes a marble should glow or is required to glow under black light to be a specific named or certain company marble. But like many things with marbles it may not be always or 100%. It is just one thing or trait that can sometimes help with a identification. Not all but almost every US machine made company made some marble that glow. Every Us machine made company also made marbles that did not glow. Because a marble glows under black light does not make them old. What color they glow depends on what was used in making the glass. Sometimes this was done intentional for raw batch glass. But Many marbles glow by accident. Not intentional because of the cullet or scrap glass used to make the marble glowed originally. Before it was made into a marble. All this just to refresh information about marbles that glow. You might be satisfied or able to accurately id your marble to a certain company by the way it reacts to black light, if. If you or someone else has found or seen ten or a dozen of the same which glow the same. Or a original marked labeled box set or bag of the same marbles which glow the same. If those numbers get to 50 or one hundred which all glow the same ? It might be safe to say that all of those certain marbles should or will glow. Like a Akro Lemonade, we all together have seen millions of them that glow. So it is required to glow in order to be a true Akro Lemonade for collectors. With numbers comes more accurate identification. The more traits used for any id the more accurate the id. No maybe we will see if CAC(original)Snotties glow, which color, or how many might glow ?

All most likely foreign to the US.

A rough ,Alley swirl made at Sistersville WV.

Sure would like to know where it was made and by who or when ??????????

The only CAC's in this entire thread are the clear base green snot colored opaque swirling CAC Snotties. No CAC Snottie has horsehair oxblood. Oxblood is almost never seen a any CAC swirl. I am an old man and that is a downfall not a plus with identifying marbles.

Not even close on identifications. Probably more wrong marble identifications with Ebay listings than correct ones. Until people return for refund all the bad marble deals, it will not get any better. Ebay will make the seller refund it.

Large one= Jabo Left to right Marble King Marble King Akro cork Peltier Master Marble King

It happens to all of us. It will happen. If anyone thinks they can get any big amount 100% correct. They are fooling only their own self. The more eyes the better any id will be. It will happen to me and you again. Just goes with the job.

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Probably Popeye patch. That is one of the most common Popeye color combos.

A 7/8 inch Berry Pink.

Rock tumblers destroy glass marbles. Even with walnut hulls or plastic beads. The marbles eventually crash together, with enough of that and they are shards and dust.

You have two or three Alleys. A Cairo Novelty. A couple Ravenswood Novelty. A couple would need more views to know for sure.

I also think they are Master. I have paper work where Alox bought 7/8 size marbles from Master. Everyone Nancy showed me, I matched with known Masters.

German colored clays. Some people call them foils, like aluminum foil.

Is it all on the surface or also inside ? Could have been acid, salt water, or several things. Looks like maybe it happened after the marble already had damage.

It sure does just happen. Not always planned. Some aventurine just happens, not planned. Most times two certain glass types and colors of broken up glass cullet added equal amounts 50% each to the furnace can make nice oxblood. As good as any Akro made. I did it many times at Jabo and Sammy's Mountain marbles. Brain Graham in OH ,makes some nice true oxblood glass. He has made some nice bricks with it. Not every thing planned shows up in or on a marble. Sometimes a unexpected nice surprise shows up.