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I know exactly where you got every one of those. We are to old, to do it again. Plus it is now impossible. There will never be any more.

Bill, you got all my large Akron rollers. The ones below are only one inch. Not like your 1 1/2- 2 inchers.

The first marbles I collected were handmades. I still collect them today after 24 years. The only two marbles I have bought at auction or a show since Feb. was one handmade and one machine made. A mint- 1.98 inch onionskin.

You got it !

I remember those days, with those boxes, years ago.

Those first two verticle white/green are nice patterns. Now you need a 7/8, Shimmering spruce, a Jolly Green Giant, then a Jolly Blue Giant.

Alley Lady Tater. Not a easy Alley to find.

Almost every machine made marble company old and new, made marbles that glow under black light. Some planned and some not planned.

It was a error. Larger size marbles are more difficult to control in many ways, pattern, and temperature. The spinner cup for corks has groves cut into the sides to help grab the glass glob in order to spin it. It spins the hot round glass glob and twist it into a corkscrew pattern then flips over and dumps it out on the marble machine for final rounding, smoothing and cooling as it travels down the machine rolls. The groves in the spinner cup just did not grab this marble good and it did not spin correct for a cork. Also temperature may have been slightly to cold or to hot ? All this happens fast at 250 marbles per minute. Errors or mistakes happen frequently. Sometimes 10 per hour or sometimes 1000 per hour. Very few hours in any day that problems did not happen and mistakes or error marbles produced. Akro 5/8 size spinner cup for making corkscrews. Made of solid graphite, so the glass would not stick to it.

John Snyder found a Razzel Dazzel in one of his buckets.

At which Alley location were the Corals produced ?

I have seen those like Stephen's. They are different and more rare that the Blackberry. No name as of today that I am aware of.

100% Champion furnace marble.

Here are three nice Heaton swirls that I brought home last Saturday from the last dig. The two with aventurine I call Razzel Dazzel. Plus a nice true oxblood Heaton with aventurine and bubbles. I knew Heaton used a maroon color Vitrolite cullet which looks like oxblood and some call oxblood especially horsehair ox. But it is actually from a maroon color Vitrolite, not actual oxblood. Lots of the maroon color Vitrolite cullet has been found at the site for many years.

With the two yellow ones. The right is Sistersville Alley made in 1931. The left large one, I think is a messed up Akro cork that did not spin correct. That is a very common color cork in that size. I have never seen a Alley with this color combination at this size.

All Vitro"s that did not spin correct in the roll groove. Errors. The hot glass glob has to spin in all different directions on its own axis while in every roll groove. If it spins just a few turns in one direction. You end up with a abnormal twist not planned standard production. Glass to hot or to cold, oversize or undersize just a few things that can cause this abnormal twist. Most are separated and discarded if caught before packing for sales. Not uncommon for any machine made marble company. It happens frequent in a 24hr. day at 250 marbles per minute. No special equipment, no experiment, just a error, non standard production.

Heaton dig Sept. 19,2020. Number four for 2020. The last dig at Heaton Agate is tomorrow and Saturday then the site will be filled over four feet deep.

Foreign to the US. Maybe Imperial ?

I think the first one is Heaton and the second one Alley.

Polishing does not change or make the colors look different. Polishing can thin colors. But heat can change the look of glass colors drastic. To much heat to long can change red(oxblood) and others to brown and even black.

Fake-modern

I agree messed up Peltier.

To many marbles in one post for me.