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Cheese(Chuck) and others did a great thread on AAM about companies marble sizes.

Top two are Alleys. Bottom left could be one of several, Ravenswood a good choice. Plain and common white/red swirl. Bottom right Alley.

A very good long time friend wrote this for me several years ago.

Machine made 7/8 inch swirls as standard production leaves out MFC, Akro and Marble King. The Vitro 7/8 swirls are mistakes. Peltier Alley Jabo ,Vacor So 7/8 inch swirls are almost always down fast to only four companies . Identifications can be by eliminations. Most of the 7/8 inch Peltier swirls are easy to Id. So that is now down to three companies. Vacor 7/8 usually has orange peel and roll mark, super bright colors. So that is down to Alley and Jabo. Very few 7/8 Alleys will glow. Elimination.

Middle is a messed up Ravenswood with drizzle twisted around on it.

Vitro made billions and billions of marbles. Because they were in business for so many years. What other machine made marble companies were in business as long as Vitro ? That is why there are so many different shades of the same color for All Reds. Some are deep and bright color and some are thin and weak color. Old equals nice rich deep bright colors, later equals thin dull colors. Cost cutting as time and competition came along for every marble company. Cut cost equals quality cut.

Art nailed it all start to finish.

Looks like copper.

Ravenswood Novelty.

Alley (weak) Blue Lady . At the start or end of the pink color, when it was first added or running out near the end. The best ones have the pink for the lady and also have white all on the blue base.

How many machine made companies made swirls of 7/8 inch and over as standard production ?

You are getting better with the pictures fast. Alley Blue Lady, the third Alley marble that I ever named. It was my X wifes favorite Alley. It was named about 2004 during a Sistersville show, now no more.

This Jabo Oxblood Series was about 1/2 or 1/3 the price of the original Joker first run. Many or the first Joker run contained the now high price desirable Cranberry Joker marble.

Yes that box is a mix of different Joker runs. The four on the left are the original first Joker run about May 2008. Very collectable now., if you had a full box of them. They are not the Joker Oxblood Series as the box says. The first Joker run had their own box similar to the one above, same wood, and logo. The yellow and two orange ones are from the Joker Fall Harvest run in fall of 2008. The other three oxblood could be from the second Joker run of nothing but oxblood marbles, or other Joker runs ? There is a mix of three or more different Joker runs in this box. Joker Oxblood Series can be a mix of about any Joker run marbles with oxblood marbles. It is a Series of runs with Oxblood. After a big portion of the Joker different run box sets were sold, this box was made to sell more and use a mix of Joker oxblood marbles.

Alley never made any so called furnace marbles. Furnace marbles, furnace scraping marbles is all from Champion Agate. Your three are all Alley Agate from the Pennsboro location and 1932-1936. I am not sure how glass looks thicker ? Unless it is the opaque ones. The transparent and translucent colors may look thinner because light passes through. Lots of transparent glass cullet was used for striping colors, like the red above. The green one has a dull finish from wear. When the wear is even and all over it, many collectors call it pocket wear. It has rolled around and rubbed all over with other marbles or change or another object over time. Maybe in someone's pocket or a marble bag, rubbing over lots of time with other marbles. The number one thing with value of any marble old or newer is condition. A mint $500.00 marble drops to $300.00-$200.00 at near mint, and the bottom drops out as collectable $50.00 if that. A mint $25.00 drops to $15.00-$10.00 at near mint, and collectable is $1.00 if that. there are different grading methods and scales. MarbleAlan had a good grading system and scale. You should be able to find it on the internet or maybe here. Learn what a chip is, what a hit or moon is, what a pinprick is. A fracture kills the value of any marble. Fractures are more forgiven with the Champion furnace marbles. Because 80-90% were fractured when made. Because the two or three types of glass used was not compatible with each other.

The one on Ebay is Exotic Conqueror. Mint usually about $10.00-$15.00 each.

Which Joker ? That group made lots of Joker runs. Hard to pin down just the clear base and oxblood They were probably made in ten different runs.

Jabo investor run. Could be a Ace or a couple others ?

I agree Asian or Vacor.

Vitro Whitie White base and color band or ribbons around the center. Old ones are opaque base and clear base are newer ones. Some have blue and green bands, two colors side by side and both colors all aventurine.

Does the bottom left glow ? The base glass color looks a little different in all three pictures. I have no idea which is true ?

Size is a big key for identifications.

Champion never made anything that large. Those are all Jabos.

If when the light moves, that white moves, it is newer fiber optic.

The investor runs began in 2008.