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I think the left two are foreign to the US. The right is a newer Marble King.

Rare 100 count mesh bag of Alleys from Pennsboro 1932-1937.

I think these are a little later than the Tri Lites.

The Alley Opal Lady has the same base but pink or lavender swirl instead of yellow like your marble. No it is not a Yellow Lady, LOL. The Lady names all have pink or lavender swirl.

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Most of those above came from the ditch or behind the building.

The majority of the machine made marbles were made from cullet(scrap glass). Raw batch glass requires sand but not always from a river. The sand is only one ingredient of several in making glass. Felspar was a big ingredient along with others. Plus the correct amounts of each ingredient is important. Then the temperature is important, how fast it raises and how long to reach the goal. Then the exhaust plays a important role. If the gas air mixtures are off it can affect the final glass. Many many things affect the final glass. Get one wrong and it doesn't make any difference what sand was used. At Mid Atlantic of WV, I saw two, twenty ton batches(40 tons)of crystal glass completely lost because of one exhaust fan had the belts broke. Both batches were to seedy, to many bubbles to use. They made and lost two batches before finding the problem.

Alley

CAC

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Left is Ravenswood. Right could be one of several WV swirl companies.

Alley

Jabo

Ravenswood

The first picture all look Alley. The last picture has maybe four possible Jacksons.

Vitro never bought any marble machines from Peltier. Peltier was in business longer than Vitro. A marble machine has absolutely nothing to do with bubbles in a marble. The bubbles are a result of how the glass is made and is cooked, correct or not correct. Good clear crystal glass has no bubbles, none.

Exotic Conqueror and Alley from the Sistersville location in 1931.

The camera is focused on your fingerprint more than the marble.

Maybe messed up or bad Jabos ? Switching from poor white base to clear base.

Newer Marble King.

It is a original oil painting from France. It is signed on the back. It came to me several years ago by Ebay from a art museum in France. Just a luck buy for me. The other paintings sold for ten times what I could pay. The painting is 10 inches by 12 inches. The frame is 14 inches by 16 inches.

I think the original marble here is a Alley which was made at Sistersville and Pennsboro locations. I also think it is a white base with orange swirls or ribbons. Where the orange bleeds over into or all through the white making the white look more slight pink or lavender. I do not think anyone at Alley made up a pink or lavender and white base glass. Or a pink or lavender with white striping color to be added to a orange base. Common Alley base colors are white, clear, blue, green, yellow, dark purple, brown. Orange would be a unusual base color for Alley. The Alley Lady family all have pink or lavender swirling. Not the base color or any bleed color. At the Pennsboro Alley site, we dug many of the marbles above right beside of the same orange with nice pure white base. One certain area contained only and nothing else but these white and orange or white, pink and orange Alleys. Nola has a glass rolling pin on her coffee table full of them from that one area. It is 80% pure white base with orange swirl and 20% white pinkish base with orange swirl. These either one, are normally about a $1.00-$3.00 marble. Call it a Alley Orange Lady and hope someone thinks it is a special marble for some reason and hope for $10.00-$20.00. Add rare to it and hope for $25.00. Add experimental to it and hope for $35.00 . That is the name game, for a $1.00-$3.00 marble.

I started the Lady name with Alley marbles and the lavender or pink is always the ribbon or swirl color, never the base. The blue base and pink swirl was my x wife's favorite Alley marble. The blue lady was the first Alley Lady marble named by me for her. ALL the Lady Alley marbles should have lavender or pink swirl or ribbon. I know of no orange base Alley with pink or lavender ribbon. Marble names should have a reason and a background as why they have the name. Anyone can call or list on ebay, a yellow and green Alley as a green lady. But it will not be called or labeled that by me, ever. There is no blue lady sky. A Blue Lady and Blue Sky are different marbles. The Blue Sky marble was the first Alley that I named. It was at a Sistersville show many years ago. About eight or ten Alley collectors were together and ask me again as in past years to name some Alley marbles. Later I was walking down the street. I pulled out a Alley from my pocket. Looked up at the nice blue sky and white fluffy clouds and I decided that Alley marble would be Blue Sky for me. It was blue base and white swirl or ribbon from the Pennsboro location. About one more block down the street I pulled another Alley from my pocket. It was a blue base and pink or lavender swirl form Pennsboro location. I looked down the street and there sat my X wife talking with collectors. So I decided that I would call that Alley marble Blue Lady. That was also the same time that the Tater Bug and Lady Tater were named. I used the names along with those other serious Alley collectors. With time the names were accepted and stuck with collectors. Marbles should have names for reasons other than just more money in the bank. Marbles should have names to be more recognized and learned. Marble names should fit the marbles. Marbles should have a reason or history for the name. More and more every year, every marble has to have a name and the name means nothing. Even the older long standing named marbles have lost all their original meaning. Naming marbles should be done with respect and a reason other than just to raise the price. That should apply to any marble and person. I don't even know who started Alley Orange Lady. But it would be interesting to know why and the history why. Maybe if we knew that, the name would be accepted better ? When there are too many named marbles, which is now, no human can possibly every remember them all. So then the names have very little value any longer. Even old long time accepted company and collector names for marbles are now being changed regularly. The name game continues and any name mean less and less. Name any marble what ever you like. Change the name next month if you like. I have bought a marble only because of a name or even a company name, with regrets later. Most of us have done it if we are honest. But I will do my best to not do it again. I will not buy it because it is from a certain company or a certain name. We should buy the marble for what it is.

Akro here.

Akro or Vitro ?