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I am not even sure how many marbles we are looking at. But I do not see any close to being CAC.

I agree with sparkler. Not the top of the chain, but a Akro Sparkler.

Peltier and Jabo

Most old original plastic bags of marbles, will have a melted sealed seam down the center of the back of the bag.

All Vitros.

My condolences to his family. He did upset many boats. He could work with glass. He confused new and seasoned collectors. I identified one of his applied oxblood Popeyes for a many years collector, at the recent Fort Wayne IN show. RIP Scott One of his oxblood Popeyes that I have had for years. Applied on a hybrid Popeye. I have been offered hundreds of dollars for it many times. But no one will buy it from me.

Several Heatons and Alleys in the swirl groups. I think your Peltier MCS is a Jabo.

Not hand gathered. Jabo 9 pattern and the Jabo butt crack fold in the last pic. Newer Jabo Classic.

The third marble is a swirl. Akro made almost no swirl style marbles. Maybe only two or three color combos total out of thousands of color combos. Any Akro swirl is rare and limited. The third marble is Cairo Novelty because. The biggest trait is the swirl pattern. The red makes a 9 pattern or twist. Trait #2, the swirl color is only on half of the marble, only on one side. Trait #3, it is cheap glass, seedy glass(bubbles), the white is from cheap cullet, the red thins to orange and then yellow. The C or a closed C or S or 9 pattern and on only half off the marble is a big trait for Cairo Novelty, a few Heaton, Jabo classics and later plain two color St.Marys Alleys. This happens because of a short length hot glass stream from the furnace to the shear. The stream does not have time to twist as it falls to the shear. When it hits the shear plate or blade it falls or folds over on itself making the C-S or 9 pattern. Not every Cairo Novelty marble will have the C-S or 9 pattern and only on half of the marble. But about 75% of them will have it. It is always majority. Very little 100% with marbles. A long hot glass stream from the furnace to the shear makes more twist. It turns and twist like water going down a drain. A eight inch long water stream falling to a drain will twist many more times than a two inch water stream going to a drain. Hot glass is the same just a lot slower.

Alley Akro cork Cairo Novelty Alley No Champion furnace marbles with the majority color being blue. Most Champion furnace marbles are yellow, orange, red, brown, off white, pink or a combination of these colors. A few of the better high dollar ones will have a small amount or line of blue. Champion furnace marbles

Vitro Blackie. A dark color band or ribbon around the middle and both poles same color patches. The older Blackies are white base. Then you get into later years Reverse Blackies. A Collector name. But Vitro marketed them all the same. The Reverse Blackies have a dark base with a colored band or ribbon around the middle. Old Blackies Later Blackies which collectors call Reverse Blackies. Because they are dark base not white, and colored ribbon(other than black)around the middle. Then you have Anti Blackies. Which have any color ribbon other than dark or black around the middle, and both poles of the same color. No Black or dark color.

The Blue Colorado is a special marble because they are fewer numbers. This is why it should have a special name. But it has certain requirements such as a clear base. Which is what makes it special in the Multi Color groups.

No problem. As everyone said it happens to all of us sometime.

How many ways can it spin ?

The number one thing for marbles values is condition. A mint marble may be $100.00. The same near mint marble would be $50.00 or $25.00. The same near mint- would be $10.00 . No way anyone can guess a grade with a group shot of ten or fifteen marbles at a distance. Values depend on grade every bit as much as how rare.

It might take smaller groups and each marble can be different in value or near the same. If you check most of the post here for identification, most contain one two or maybe three marbles per post.

I though the left was a messed up Master. I have never had a Vitro with those earth tones layered like that. I have had lots of Masters with that exact color combo.

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Way to many in one post for me. I am not sure what pop out is ? For some that might be a $1.00 cat eye or for some a $100.00 or a $500.00 marble. I see some Ravenswoods they pop for me. Because I grew up near Ravenswood. I went to school in Ravenswood. I currently live nine miles from Ravenswood. Some Ravenswood marbles are $1.00 each and some can be $100.00 each.

Vitro never made any banana cat eyes.

Vitro patch and ribbon Marble King Rainbow Maybe foreign to the US Vitro All Red

Why is it Peltier. Looks like a WV swirl that did not spin correct in the roll groove. If the hot glass glob does not spin in all different directions on its own axis in the first two or four roll grooves. This is what any machine made marble will look like. Every machine made marble company made some marbles with this twist on one or both poles. They are a error a mistake. The brand new 3/4 inch machine that D.A.S. had made a few years back, produced these marbles 70% of the entire time. It took three or four years and a lot of money to correct the problem. The old thoughts that a Miller marble machine made all the Peltier swirl style marbles is a myth. For many reasons, that thought just makes no sense. Brian Graham owns a original Peltier Miller machine. He has made hundreds of marbles on it. NONE were any type or swirl pattern. It is a hand gather machine. How many different size Peltier marbles swirl ? Each different size 1/2 to 9/16 or 5/8 to 11/16 or 7//8 to one inch, every different size would require a different size machine. How many Miller machines did Peltier have ? Akro had Miller machines , they did not produce swirls as standard production. On and on and on. The marble machine just makes the elongated hot glass glob round into a marble. The marble machine has nothing to do with the pattern of the marble. At Jabo, I have made patch marbles, or patch and ribbon marbles, or swirl marbles all on the same exact marble machine. Jabo bought all the old Vitro machines. Vitro made patch and patch and ribbon marbles. Jabo used the same old original 1940-1960's Vitro marble machines and made swirl marbles as their standard production. If a marble machine makes a twist pattern on a marble, it is a error, a mistake marble. The marble machine's only purpose is make the hot glass glob round. The marble machine is the most simple piece of equipment in the whole process. Your marble is a simple two color white base and blue swirl. Could be Alley-Ravenswood-Cairo-Jackson-Heaton-Champion-etc. When they are only two colors and the pattern is a error or messed up, it is almost impossible to narrow it down to one company.

Looks like normal Popeye corkscrew to me. I am not sure what the measurement is ? Is the ruler in 1/8 inch marks or 1/16 marks ? I have never seen a one inch Popeye.

I am hungry for breakfast now.

I am confused. Are the marbles red or clear ? How does it lock ? I did not see any locking device. It looks like a truck reflector to me. The tab at the top and the two holes are for mounting it to a old antique truck bed or fender. Or any other mobile vehicle. There are many different reflectors with marbles for old vehicles. The old car reflectors are very similar to this but smaller and usually the mount is on the bottom. Old Railroad X crossing signs can have marbles as reflectors and are usually clear or red. But these signs are large four to eight feet and expensive. Old stop signs can also contain marbles as reflectors.