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Very common St,Marys Alley. Many of the same with blue base.

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More like Jabo marbles made on old Vitro machine. I don't consider Jabo and 1994 old. Plus what difference does it make, made on what machine ? A marble machine just makes the hot glass glob round. You can make a sparkler or a bumblebee, or a swirl, or a cat eye, all with the same marble machine.

Marbles are 0.25 to $1.00 each if Mint or Mint-.

There are no radioactive marbles in the bowl. Have they ever sold vaseline or green colored depression era glass that glows ? If a antiques store, of course they have. I would not pay the shipping cost for the whole bowl. But I have collected over 25 years. But also there are very few $1.00 marbles in the bowl. Old does not make them valuable. That is probably the biggest mistake everyone buying marbles makes. People buy marbles because they are civil war marbles. That does not make any value with a marble. Those are old they have to be valuable, WRONG. When they find out they are not valuable or damaged bad and no value, they get upset at the person informing them of the truth.

Top left Alley. Top right Champion Bottom left might be Heaton Blue Denim. But I cannot remember if they glow ? Bottom right Jabo.

Probably all Champion.

Top right might be Cairo Novelty.

Jabo all the way. No remelt. No Champion.

Ravenswood. They made different shades, bright and dull white base with red and blue.

Another Alley.

Heaton Sweet Potato and a rough damaged Alley swirl.

All but the 3rd one top row are Jabo for me.

The main reason against grinding or polishing any marble. Is that it drops the dollar value drastic. If the marble has no dollar value to begin with then there is no loss. Plus no one I know will polish very many marbles for free. Is it worth $5.00 cost to polish a $1.00 marble ? If you have a $100.00 chipped and dinged 1 1/2 inch German handmade marble. Pay someone $20.00 to grind and polish it. Then it looks mint but it is now worth $50.00 . You lost $50.00 value and $20.00 cost. Take a ten dollar nm- cork, pay $5.00 to polish it and you have zero dollar value. Most machine made polished marbles drop to almost zero dollar resell value.

I am also with Akro. Floaters are connected to Jabo marbles, not Vitro or Akro.

Everything I see pictured here, except Al's post, is foreign to the US for me.

Not a opal. Annealing fractures are when the marble cools to fast right after being made. After machine made marbles are made they need to cool slowly for at least four to twelve hours to even touch by hand. If they cool to fast they will fracture. Fractures also happen when two or more different kinds of glass have a coefficient to far apart. You cannot just mix all glass. Fractures happen from impact, they are glass marbles. Fractures happen from gas pockets in marbles. Fractures can happen with a fast wide temperature change.

The two left are Vitro Whities. The large Whities are not an easy find. Older Vitro opaque Whities Later newer Vitro clear base Whities

Vitro All Red, means A Vitro white base marble, always one red patch and another patch of a different color, other than red. Named by the company, because as kids shot or rolled the marbles across the floor or ground it always flashes red. Red was always the kids favorite color. Produced steady for about 45 years, millions of them every year.

Copper.

The third one down is a Vitro Black Line All red.

Alley

I also agree with Ravenswood, especially at 9/16.

I have never seen a 9/16 Vitro swirl.

Your bid is above mine. I don't see a $1.00 marble in the drawer.