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WV swirls. Common color combo. With these transparent two color WV swirls many are impossible to separate by company. Because they are so near alike and so many companies made them. A reason they do not have much collector value.

The first one looks like a common St. Marys Alley. The second one looks like a Sistersville Alley.

John Deere tractor colors Green base main color with Yellow lettering. Peltier John Deer marble backwards Yellow base main color and Green ribbons. Peltier had reversed John Deer tractors. They only had reverse gear.

CAC

The original marble in question is Alley. The hot glass glob was to large for the marble machine roll groove size. So it is out of round.

When a hot glass glob hits the marble machine rolls, the rolls job is to make it round. The glob has to spin in all different directions on its own axis in each and every groove of the rolls. If it is to large or to small it will not fit the groove correct and not spin correct. If the glass temperature is to cold or to hot the glob will not spin correct. If the speed of the rolls is to slow or to fast the glob will not spin correct. If the rolls gets a build up of glass the glob will not spin correct. All this above and more affect the shape and pattern of the finished marble. They are non standard production which happened often and routinely with every machine made marble company. Most were sorted and discarded, but not possible to sort out every error.

Machine made Euro Sparkler.

China

Steph nailed it.

Slag for me. The last picture is a cut line or seam.

I am with Akro-Akro-Peltier. No Mk, if older MK it would be patch and ribbon, no just a ribbon. It is older so not newer MK which are ribbon only. The new Marble King's are bright colors and almost no bleed with the colors.

Akro or CAC ?

Double ingot. I agree probably MK.

Jabo

Not easy when they are mistakes and abnormal. Which was frequent.

Shane I sent a return pm message.

Jabo did not make 7/8 or one inch marbles until the late 1990's. If 30 years old or older, that points to Alley or Akro for this marble. But the base is unusual for a one inch Alley. The base and colors fit Akro and like many Vitro and some of the larger Akro marbles twisted or swirled.

Not Jabo at 30 years old. Jabo was not making one inch marbles 30 years ago. It is a machine made marble. Machine made marbles have no pontils ever.

I live in Jackson County WV. Grew up here, went to school at Gilmore and Ravenswood. I have been with marbles 25+ years . A original founder of the West Virginia Marble Collectors Club 20+ years ago. I have helped with eight or nine marble books, some U tube marbles videos. I may be able to help you. Message me here, if you want some help ????

First one is nice Vitro Tri Lite. The others are Akro.

Master

Maybe I come from a egg ? But I do not try to mislead marble people. I have had dozens of people ask me serious about the radiation from glass marbles that glow. So when you have visitors ask you about radiation or tell you their concerns. Do not be shocked or tell them they come from a egg. You said "but the green toxic radiation glow gives that idea a little" . Your sign may make that impression and concerns more than a little. I am here to help and pass any information along that might help any marble collector any where. Not every marble collector or person viewing marbles know that solid glass marbles will not give off radiation. So I pass that info along. If I would hang that sign with my marbles, a person sometime, sooner or later, would get the wrong impression from me.

The 1905 patent above is for ball bearings. Not connected to toy marbles. Glass machine made marbles came about from the connection to metal ball bearings. So the original hallow ball bearings found their way connected to glass marbles. Metal ball bearings and marbles have connections. But when solid ball bearings mix with glass marbles the result is bad. I don't think any hallow steelie connected to marbles was hand made. Maybe a very early hallow ball bearing was hand made. It all depends on when you connect what marble collectors label steelies with glass marbles ? Is it a hallow ball bearing or a steelie connected to marbles ? A solid metal ball bearing is not considered by marble collectors as being connected with marbles. Any type metal ball bearing is a glass marble killer.

I would be surprised that any true steelies (hallow) were hand made, in any amount or big numbers. Most or all the mechanical motion antique marble toys I have or seen, need weight to work. The hallow steelies would not be heavy enough for gravity to make the toy operate. Many of the older mechanical marble toys had stone or heavy clay marbles. Most of these were at least 3/4, 7/8, or one inch marbles. I have three of the Bowler Andy Mills, three Panama Pile drivers, and others. I have tried glass marbles in them and they are not enough weight to make the toy operate. These older metal mechanical marble toys were made before any amount of glass machine marbles were in production. The Panama Plie Drivers(two versions)were made about 1910. There may be a old toy that used a hallow steelie to make it work ?

I really like that white base with red yellow and blue marble. But I have no idea where they were made or by what company ?