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For machine made marbles. A legal shooter is 3/4 inch. Some call 7/8 and larger Boulders. Counting colors is always a different opinion from different collectors. Many times it depends if the person is buying or selling. A lot like grading a marbles condition. It helps some separating colors if you have actually seen marbles made. Colors can lay over top of each other changing the looks. Reflections can change the color looks. Thick or thin, bleed can change color looks. Temperature has a big affect on the final color. To high temperature will make actual colors darker. If two shades of a similar color side by side, it may just be a bleed or thick and thin of the same single added color. It all gets easier with experience. But the learning never stops, if you give it the effort.

They are very likely to multiply. The marble bug bites deep and can hang on for many years. So far no cure has been found.

Glass colors do not mix to make a new different color. Glass is not like paint. Glass colors bleed or thin. Glass colors can and do lay over top of each other. Glass colors can be heated to high and burn turning dark. Or if high enough temp and long enough, some can go clear. Some glass can look clear and when heated turn to a color, like pink or maroon. There is a large variety of glass types, weights, coefficency, etc. A glass worker could make a big list of different glass. Not all types of glass can be added to each other. Glass colors do not react anything like mixing paint.

No stupid questions. Not all but most of the answers are here or can be found. I had a marble collector friend who also was color blind. He learned to identify marbles very well. He learned to do it by the style, type and pattern, not colors. If we want a challenge, identify marbles with only black & white pictures. I have tried it several times. Very bright light or sunshine can help with aventurine. Look for the extra glitter or sparkle. It can be chunky or some can be very fine. It can be difficult to see sometimes when it is fine and under the surface. A loupe is a help with the fine av. Sometimes a loupe is needed to determine if it is small bubbles or actual aventurine.

A large Buckskin.

I am friends with Larry Wells. I have bid against him, bought from him, and sold to him. Roger and Larry are the Akroware kings. I have watched them bid against each other at the Akro auctions.

Great info and research.

Aventurine glitters or sparkles. it can be different colors. Green is the most common color of aventurine. There is a long post here in the General Glass Chat section about av and lots of pictures. AV is short for aventurine. There are other sections to most marble chat boards other than the identification section. The other sections can be of great help in learning many things about marbles. Many of the Ebay marble listing have good photos of marbles with aventurine. Many Jabo marbles have lots of av and different colors of av. Most was added on purpose, some was added through use of cullet(scrap glass)which contained aventurine. Some av can be unplanned and formed by chemical reactions. Aventurine

My thoughts Alley Coral Alley Messed up Akro Akro

You do not see many of the bedroom dresser sets with the hair brush, mirrors and comb. Akro made the handles for the brush and mirrors. When Bill McCaleb and myself dug those handles and pieces of them at Akro. We had no idea what they were for. The same for many of the Akro lamp parts. It took a few years to learn what they actually were. For a long time they were just assumed that Akro got them as cullet for making marbles. Then we discovered that Akro actually made them. Akro produced much more glass items than marbles. Much more than most marble collectors are aware of. The Akro club is no more. It ended in(I think)2016 or 2017.

Did someone say Akroware ? You started it. I have seven of the large Grandad pots, two of the orange or pumpkin colored ones. It seems the collecting of Akroware pieces has dropped way off in the last three years. I sold six but still have five or six of the oxblood lamps, small table or bed room lamps. For several years the Akro convention in Clarksburg by Roger and Claudia Hardy always had a large auction from collections of Akroware. It was a great place to buy Akroware at good prices. I think that I have all but maybe two or three pieces of all the orange or pumpkin color. Those couple pieces are about $300-500.00 each, when you can find them. I remember when the Grandad pots were $400.00 each.

Most likely Alley or Champion. A machine made marble not handmade with pontil. There are different pontils. Some below.

I think the Akro club had the zippo's made two or three times.

I am not leaving or going any where, not yet. This happens like I said routinely. But I am still Sorry that it happens. I sometimes get short or then to detailed, to the point, for some. Sometimes including myself. people are just having a bad day. We never know what else may be happening that day in someone's life. But it works both directions. It is done and tomorrow is a new day. It will happen again as normal. It is a hazard with what I do and I know that well. Marble on.

Sorry, I should have just said Master and that is all. Nothing new, just another day, same routine. Just a different person. Some don't like my answers and some do. I just try to stay with the majority. I hope that I have brought into and helped more people in this hobby than not. If not, then I should back out. Some days that choice gets closer and closer after 25 years of it.

Most of these are 7/8 to one inch.

Please use a different background for pictures. The transparent blue base and white marble is a very common Master. A brushed patch Master, because the white looks like brushed white paint on the surface. I have never heard this cobalt blue called electric blue. Standard cobalt blue used by many machine made companies.

Mixed group some Vitro, and some not. Need a different background for sure. Clear and rough or shiny background does not work well on clear base marbles. Vitro cage cat eyes come in many different vane count. Some can have 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9. Vane count for Vitro cage at eyes usually really makes no difference in any value. A Vitro Eight Finger is a entirely different marble and value. Vitro cage and cage hybrid cay eyes. Vitro Eight Finger marbles below

I think these two are Champion. Cannot tell if the gray is just gray or dull metallic aluminum color. Most metallics have more shine. The two center original blue ones above are nothing like these two. The first ones are a more brown copper metallic and have like a snakeskin pattern along the edges of the metallic. These do not shine they are more dull thin copper color. The stripe on these look like welding rod flux or electric weld slag. Most white base and blue Champions metallics have a bright silver shine like polished aluminum. I have seen very few, one out of every 25,000 if that, metallics from Heaton. Your left one above does not look metallic. It could be Champion or also possible Alley. The smaller one on the right sure looks Champion.

Like the others have said, these are almost or all newer modern marbles. Jabo, Vacor(Mexico), foreign, etc. It will be a problem to sell these. They have almost no collector value. Most of us give them away to kids. Like the bag with the green and white are Jabo swirls. I have helped package the Lehmans bags with Jabo marbles. They were sold originally in the Lehmans hardware store near Sugar Creek Ohio, Amish area. Most of the marbles are ten cents each. The larger ones with the different colored frit glass pieces on the surface are Vacor from Mexico. Sometimes they might be $1.00 each if lucky. There are thousands of listings on Ebay for marbles,. But these probably would not sell on Ebay. Plus Ebay and Paypal will take 25%. Facebook has a few marble auctions groups. The other option is consign them to a local auction house. Any marble collector with a years experience most likely will not want these. They have had them and learned the hard way of their value. Even old marble does not mean value, some are, some are not. Condition is very important no matter how old or how rare.

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