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Jabo swirls. Not slags.

Akro patches. No pontils of any kind These are machine made, with cut lines or seams, no pontils. These were never on a punty rod or gather rod, which leaves the pontil marks. They would sell better together. The 5/8 is common, the 1 1/4 is more uncommon because of the large size. The 5/8 about 10-25 cents, the 1 1/4 about $10.00 .

Everyone is always looking and trying to buy that one magic marble book. The one that has every marble made pictured identified and valued up to date. If it was available, you could not lift it. It would be many thousand pages. Plus marbles are still surfacing that has never been seen before. We recently dug some at Heaton Agate that no one had seen since they were made. Plus the values would be wrong by the time it got published. Some values almost never change and some change in a year up or down. Everyone ask me to teach them marbles. They have a couple days to spend with me learning, LOL. Maybe I could teach them to identify Davis Marble Works marbles, in two days. They were in business about a year and made only about 12 different varieties. More difficult when a company was in business from 1931 to 1986 making millions per week, every week. I have collected Alley marbles for 25 years and I am still finding ones that I have not seen before. Plus I collect all marbles, hand made and machine made plus some stone. Plus anything else the marble companies produced. Like children's dishes, glass animals, gearshift knobs, any Akroware, marble lamps, marble machine parts, any paper work or documents, on and on. Marbles can cover a wide range, over many years, from Roman days until today. The research and study never ends if you want the info. Lots of marble info available today, the most ever in my life. But it will not come looking for you, you have to find it. It takes effort which is time and money. No single magic marble book.

Most likely Vacor.

Not sure there are any mica in the Robwell group. Maybe the front clear one 7 o'clock ? A true red mica is rare and about $500.00- $1000.00 each. Most mica marbles will have a pontil like the green one or clear one in Al's picture.

Newer modern MK Bumblebee.

OK more than one color on a single vane. That makes the numbers less. I think several people are forgetting this detail. I notice it different places even at shows. People calling any cat eye with more than one color, even each vane a different color, hybrid cat eyes. Things keep getting stretched so much that the original intent is being lost.

Far right is Champion. Probably also Champion on the first one.

With marbles condition is number one. If you study at least 2-3 hours, five days a week. In about ten years you should be able to identify 60% of the marbles you see.

I do not think it has any pontils. It is a machine made Alley swirl. I see two chips(damage)that may look some like a pontil. It is machine made and not handmade.

First picture looks like Champions. Second picture is blurred bad. No way I can know from these pictures, if they have a pontil. I doubt any pontil. They may be crackled or fried marbles ? Is it gold color or yellow ? If they had a pontil they would be handmades which would likely be Mica's. But Mica is silver color. Never seen any gold color mica.

Vacor-Mexico

Older Marble King 7/8 four color can be $100.00 + .

Thanks. That means that about 90% of all the non USA Cat Eyes are hybrids. Hybrid Cat Eyes may be more common than non Hybrid Cat Eyes.

Vitro Eight Finger, or eight vane ? Not sure what a eight vane is ? Is it a eight vane Vitro Cage Cat Eye ? Or a non USA Cat Eye ? A big difference in Eight Vane Cat Eye and a Vitro Eight Finger.

Bogard banana cats do the same thing, flat on or near the surface. I dug some like that a few weeks ago at the site.

Vitro was the only company that produced what they called Cage Cat Eye. Vitro Eight Fingers are another type of Vitro Cat Eye. The eight fingers or vanes are all on or near the surface. There are Vitro eight vane cage cat eyes, plus 5-6-7 vanes. The Vitro Cage Cat Eyes are about 10 cents, the Vitro Eight fingers are $30.00-$75.00 . There are Vitro hybrid two color eight finger marbles. People used to look for 9 vane multi color non USA Cat Eyes.

What are the requirements for a Hybrid Cat Eye ?

I think it may be Akro.

Multi color foreign Cat Eye. Most USA collectors refer to a hybrid cat eye, they are Vitro hybrid Cat Eyes. They have gained popularity the last couple years. Some are paying $1.00-$2.00 each. I got these two weeks ago at the Sistersville show, five for $1.00. Many non USA Cat Eyes are Multi color, from Japan, Asia, and other countries. Most Non USA Cat Eyes do not have any value with collectors because there are so many and from so many countries. They are very difficult to identify or date. Vitro Hybrid Cat Eyes

At 0.95 you will find more Jabos than vintage.

What size is it ? Is it green base or blue base. Pictures are dark . Is the swirl lavender or white ? Pattern looks Alley.

#1 Is it Vitro or Akro ? The colors do not blend. Glass colors do not blend like paint. Glass colors can thin and bleed.

Non USA Cat Eye.

#2 looks like Vitro Whitie the first two pics, then the next pics show it as a patch. Vitro or Akro ? #4 Vitro Conqueror. Not like or made like #2. #8 Alley #10 Jabo #12 Alley