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A few more handmades.

Does an Akro Ace marble have to glow under blacklight ?

How many different size swirl marbles did Peltier produce ? Did each size require a different machine ? Which part or piece of the marble machine determined if marble would be a swirl or ribbon or patch design ? Was Peltier the only marble company that owned and ran Miller marble machines ? Why do the marbles produced the last two to three years on the Peltier Miller machine look nothing like any Peltier marble ? How many marble machines did Miller in PA produce ? Can you produce a swirl, or ribbon or patch style marble on the same exact machine without any modifications or changes ? Were the Peltier swirl marbles planned standard production ? Or were they a mistake not as planned ? Were the Peltier swirl marbles made only during a certain time frame ? From all my 20+ years experience, the only thing the marble machine does is make the hot glass gob round. Miller machine, Vitro machine, Jabo machine, a Steph machine, all will just make the hot glass glob round. The marble machine does not make any pattern, design, style or certain type marble. Its only purpose is to make the marble round and cool it.

The gray is called Banded Opaque, not Indian. The Clambroth = Clambroth.

Ok Thanks !

#1= Oxblood Brick by MFC #2= Akro Milky Oxblood #3= Oxblood Brick, probably MFC.

Dean has done several books maybe 10 or 15. Is Dean working for Blenko now ? Response from Blenko and it was Dean ?

There is that fingernail piece of glass on the right at 1 o'clock. Nice group, I know some people looking for these. There will never be anymore other than what has been dug in the past. The Alley Pennsboro site is 90% filled over three to six feet deep and no trespass. The current owner is a excavating contractor and suppose to build a large building on the site for his equipment.

So Dean is back in WV, employed by Blenko now.

Gropper packaged marbles from different companies. Here are a couple Gropper mesh bags with Cairo Novelty marbles. Nola also has one of these and I have seen two or three others like these.

Good questions. I think if you break the marble open, it will all be this same main color. I am definitely no glass chemist. Just what I have experienced during many hours days years at the Jabo marble factory. It is all temperature and time. To high of temperature and the glass with different colors will turn brown and long enough will go very dark. The longer the temperature is to high the darker the brown goes. Add different colors of glass to a white or clear base glass, to many colors to fast and it will all go brown. White seems to be the last to go brown. Nice opaque white glass can be heated high enough and long enough that it will turn clear. The blow outs pinholes rough surface is a sign of reheating. Heated to high or to fast or to long will cause the gas pockets and blow outs. As you can see most white has thinned out and beginning to disappear. A little more time at this heat and the white would be gone and the color even darker brown. The glass in the main furnace or tank can turn brown during machine made marble production. I have seen it happen several times. I have also seen opaque white glass in the main furnace turn clear. Plus not all glass is the same. Many different kinds of glass and each one can react different. I have seen a certain clear looking cullet turn ruby red when reheated properly. With the correct combinations, good results happen. But with wrong combinations, glass, heat and time, bad things happen.

Top three Alley and last a CAC.

I would say Cairo Novelty swirl. Made in Cairo WV about 1946-1950. They are making cobalt blue glass in the US, probably today or weekly. I guess that may depend on exactly what pure or true cobalt blue glass is. Your marble was machine made. Most or older German marbles were hand made one at a time on a rod. Machine made marbles are made at 250 per minute. Many different shades of blue glass is probably the most used color in machine made marbles.

100% Sweet Baby Grays. My girlfriend Nola named those. We were digging at the Pennsboro Alley site. We had dug for about 4-5 hours and 75% of everything we were finding was these gray swirls and some Blue Lady marbles. I made the comment that I was tired of seeing these same gray swirls. That is when Nola said don't talk bad about my sweet baby grays. I told her that she just named those marbles. The yellow/orange ne at the bottom of the pic is a Tater Bug. There are four color combinations. All have the same yellow base, one has the orange swirl, one has a green swirl, one has purple or lavender swirl, and one has redish brown swirl. About 80% of the Tater Bugs all have a small opaque white piece of glass laying across the swirl pattern. Some people say it looks like a cut fingernail. It is always across or opposite of the swirl direction. I think probably all or most all of the Tater Bug marbles were discarded because of this fingernail piece of glass. I have no idea how it could happen ? Always on the surface, always across the swirl pattern, always the same white color. Almost always the same size of fingernail glass. Not like any other glass with these marbles. Most had roll marks. Everything in the picture was dug at the Pennsboro WV Alley site.

The 400 count Ajax box contain Alox marbles. The birthday card box contains Veligglas marbles. Machine made marbles were so cheap that many were free if you purchased a certain item. Ninety five percent of the Davis Marble Works marbles were sent to Puerto Rico. The mesh bag of Davis marbles were free if purchased a toy doll. You got free marbles with Buster Brown shoes. You got free marbles with Esso gasoline fill up. You got free marbles in cereal boxes. Bags of marbles or marble bottle hangers were free with a six pack of soda. With a three cent deposit on each glass bottle. Which was used over and over. A long list of free marbles.

It is new, waves in the glass not smooth. Maybe a new torch made marble ? Or newer foreign to the USA.

Looks like a remelt. A brick that has been reheated, maybe trying to repair. But a poor job. It is a new pontil where the marble was a stuck to a rod for reheating. The color darkened with reheating the glass. Never heard of a brown brick.

Not sure any are vintage bricks They are oxbloods, but something is not normal for vintage oxbloods. Except maybe the one with white ? I cannot tell exactly what the base is on the one with the white ? Maybe a Milky Oxblood or a Silver Oxblood or a Jabo ? Would need single close pictures to be sure. They may be Jabo oxbloods ? Are they 1/2 inch or one inch or some where in between ?

I don't know a name for the left green one. The right is a MK Blue Transparent Wasp. The MK Spiderman is opaque red base with blue ribbon and blue patch.

#1= Alley #2= Akro or possible Alley ? Might need it hand to know ? Could be a very nice Alley. #3= Alley #4= Akro

Not CAC.

Littleman