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A Akro Sparkler should have 4-5 colors or more.

I saw them but do not have any.

For the first one, Many years ago I meet a older man at a marble show selling these in different sizes. He claimed to be the one who designed this marble toy. He called it The Marble Tree. His wife was a kindergarten school teacher. It was designed to teach or heighten five of the children's senses. I may not get these correct? To teach hand eye coordination, learn to count, learn different sounds or tones, rotation, and sharing-team work. One marble per child, one marble at a time. He said the leaves should not be painted as that deadens the different tones. The leaves are different sizes to create different sounds. Maybe he was the first ,maybe not ? Of course I bought one of the taller ones. My grandchildren and great grandchildren have run a lot of marbles down a Marble Tree like this.

Age does not make a marble valuable. Condition is more important than age. Game marbles and a mix of Akro, Peltier, Alley. Surprisingly no Vitro.

Great ! If you do not have some of each type ? The hunt can be enjoyable for each type and the different color combinations.

I believe some were filled and with these marbles before Marble King was a company. I also believe that some of these were filled at Marble King while it was a company. Some were filled after Marble King bought everything from Alley.

The original may be a actual hybrid Popeye ? In hand with a 10-20 or 30 loupe it may be a different story ? One of those confusing border line ones. Still a nice Popeye hybrid or not ?

All Red. One of the two most common marbles Vitro produced for fifty years. All Red and Conqueror. There are many different color shades of All Reds. All Red is always a Vitro with a red patch on one side and a patch of different color on the opposite side. Named All Red by the company because when the kids shoot or roll the marble, red was always flashing or seen. What was the favorite color of the kids ? Red.

Ravenswood never had 7/8 or one inch size has standard production.

Five - six- seven - vanes or fingers are common. Vitro eight fingers are not common.

Lay translucent yellow over translucent green and the surface may look like a light shade of orange. The Popeyes all have lots of clear, some white and other colors. Where these colors meet or lay against each other or over top of each other, the surface can look like a different color. But the glass colors did not blend, just layered or stacked. Search glass colors blending. There is no such thing.

Great ! Which type Vitro tiger eye do you have above ?

What size ?

Glass colors do not blend. Glass colors will not blend to make another color like paint does. Glass colors can bleed over or under each other to look like a different color. Reflection from one glass color to another can make a different looking color. But glass colors do not blend. That can make a good discussion and has many times. Even a long discussion recently on another marble chat. Glass colors and the word blend do not go together. Glass colors can lay or bleed under or over another color. That is why many marbles may be labeled 5-6-7 or more colors but the actual colors added when made were far less. Certain people at Jabo would say and sell marbles of 6-7 colors. When actually we only added maybe 3, 4 or 5. Temperature also can change glass colors, but they do not blend to make a new separate different color.

Now learn the four types of Vitro Tiger Eye marbles. Type One = Type Two = Type Three = Type Four = There are a few oddballs that are not in a Type number yet.

Top row left to right = Alley - MK Bumblebee - Alley Bottom row left to right = Maybe Akro patch ? - Akro corkscrew - Alley The first marble which I knew a name of as a kid was the MK Bumblebee. The next marble I learned was a corkscrew. Probably the easiest marble of any machine made to identify. The first marble that I teach kids to identify. The color striping starts on one pole or end of the marble. The color stripe twist in a corkscrew pattern around the marble to the opposite pole or end and never crosses itself. Can be opaque, clear, transparent or translucent bases. Can be two colors, or three, or four, or five or more. The more colors the better, the larger the size, the better. Collect corkscrews a lifetime and never get all the color combinations.

Vitro

Not a hybrid Popeye. It is two colors with the required white filaments. A Akro Popeye = Clear base white filaments and two or more additional colors. Can be a corkscrew or patch, corkscrew pattern more desirable. What looks near orange is the green under the yellow. Standard Popeye with the two added colors of green and yellow. I don't think Akro added a additional separate orange color to this marble. The last picture shows the green under the orange. It is what collectors refer to as a standard two color Popeye, not hybrid which is more, than two additional colors other than the required white filaments. Still a nice Popeye. But $20.00 not $100.00 or $200.00 for a good hybrid. Here is a red. blue and yellow 3 color hybrid popeye.

More likely Champion.

Not enough traits to narrow it down much. It could be from several different companies. This is a reason marbles like this have little value.

That flip flop pattern would be very rare for Vitro. If Vitro ever had any by mistake or accident.

The blue, white, probably orange, looks Jabo. A few Jabos, a few Champions, and maybe a couple Alleys. Fenton Art glass was another supplier of cullet which make marbles glow. Some new marbles glow. Some old marbles glow.

The mesh and plastic bags with the Marble King header is some of the last ones which are yet easy to find. They can be filled with Alley swirls from his St.Marys location, or Peltier or actual Marble King marbles. Most were filled by Berry Pink who wanted to be known as the MARBLE KING. Some of the plastic ones were also likely filled by actual Marble King Co. The Vitro All Red bag is another common or easy to find bag. There are still several Vitro bags that are easy to find, Cat Eye, Conqueror, All Red. Some of the Vitro bags are rare to find, Whities, Blackies, Yellow Jackets, Cellophane bags, etc. Bags of marbles can be tricky. Many fake and fantasy bags have been available for years and still are. The Bogard Co. even stapled their own bag header over top of the original Heaton bag header, with original Heaton marbles. Bags can help identify some marbles, they can help date some marbles. But they also can cause lots of confusion.