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Uses 7/8 inch Vitro game marbles.

No Akro corkscrews.

Alley. No oxblood.

Correct I have never had any.

I agree. Vitro Tiger eyes show two ribbons all the way around the middle. These show one ribbon half way around the middle and then a patch covering 1/3 of the marble. Wrong construction for Vitro Tiger Eye.

Common St.Marys location two color Alley.

Common St.Marys location two color Alley.

Common St.Marys location two color Alley. Probably no shade of blue that Alley did make marbles with. Probably his most used color all his time, from 1931 to 1949 was blue.

Not me.

X4

Looks Vacor to me. Off color for Akro. Very bad color bleed in the white all over. Akro does not do that. Roll marks all over. Akro might have one or two roll marks but not all over. Poor quality for everything. Just random not planned cork pattern. Many Jabos and WV swirls will corkscrew twist. They are just not planned production or steady.

Jabo

Vacor

Older marbles are usually more collectable and more valuable, because. Older marbles are almost always better quality of base glass and colored glass. Older marbles are more true round. Older marbles were made in less numbers. Older marbles have ingredients that was outlawed later on. Older marbles cost more to make. On and on. Then competition came along. Then cost cutting came along. Production numbers went up. Then all the quality went down. The older machine made marbles have more value and cost more, because they are better and less of them.

Opaque black and a swirl is strange.

Yes Vitro Parrots have red, blue, yellow. But not thin and cheap quality glass color like this marble has. Parrots have quality glass colors of red, blue, green, light purple or pink, yellow, orange, dark purple looks black. Parrots have many color combinations. Vitro Parrot colors would fit 90% of all machine made marbles.

Lots of roll marks and thin color, maybe Jabo ?????

I have never seen a Heaton with a color combination or pattern close this. It is for sure not from Ravenswood. I don't think it is USA made. Maybe older European swirl ?

That is a fold and roll mark, not a cut line. Most all machine made swirls fold over once or many times.

Foreign Cat Eye. Probably Japan or Asian.

We can use another Superman.

100% Jabo. Not unusual to be found with vintage marbles. That happens more often than not. Over 25+ years, if I find ten different groups. of one hundred marbles each, what is thought of as machine made vintage marbles. Four groups will likely have Jabos. Four groups will likely have newer Vacor or newer Imperial, and Two may be all vintage. That is the ratio which I have seen with groups.

True CAC Turkey Head. If you try hard enough 50% of all swirl patterns may have a twist curve or hook that looks like some part or all of a Turkey Head. But most of those are small and vary a lot. Turkey Head is normally associated with CAC marbles and it is not rare. Years ago it did increase some value on CAC swirls. Then it got widespread that many other swirl companies also had patterns that looked like a turkey head. But many of them are smaller than true CAC Turkey Head swirls. I do not add $1.00 more value for with or without a turkey head pattern. I don't like to buy names.