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No way of knowing a company or time frame. Not enough traits to narrow it down. There is very little true opaque black glass with machine made marbles. Out of 25-30 companies only maybe three or four had true black glass.

The majority of Vitro Wedding Cakes are 7/8 inch size. A few rare 5/8 and 3/4 inch have been found. They are opaque white base and have a added second bright white and another color. The additional color can be red, maroon, blue, teal, yellow or green. Never seen or heard of any purple on any Wedding Cake. The original here looks transparent pink base with white patch and blue ribbon. All Wedding Cakes are opaque and have two different colors or shades of white. The bright white looks like, bright snow white wedding cake icing. The original is just a Vitro patch. If the spots in the 4th picture are on the surface, it is damage, hits. It has lots of damage in the other pictures. Or if inside, It may have some bubbles or seedy glass. No collector value and it will never be a Wedding Cake no matter how much it or you want it to be. We all want most of our marbles to be something they are not.

I have to go up to Columbus OH to find one this size indoors. Which we do twice a year. Scotts Antique Shows, they do them in different states.

I agree most or maybe all Ravenswood. Maybe two or three not but the blue looks right for Ravenswood on all of them. CAC, Alley, Champion, Jackson, and Heaton all made white, red and blue swirl marbles. Alley Jackson Dirty cream white that glows bright with Jacksons. Below Champion. Heaton below. Heaton also made a nice white base with red. blue and brown. CAC is very close to Alley. I could not find my CAC w/r/b pics. Many of the CAC white red and blue, can also have brown.

Nothing like that within one hundred miles of me.

If not polished I will more than double the $300.00. More valuable than a Latticino core. More than double the value as the same size and condition Latticino. Looks very very nice to be unpolished. I think it may have been polished. Looks like a moon on right side yellow bands, which half has been ground away and polished. Lots of these big boys out there ground and polished, but VERY few this size in this condition. If ground and polished about $50.00=$75.00 . Be careful, lots of difference in $75.00 or $1000.00 .

Close call Master or Imperial ???

The Vitro Tiger Eye marbles time frame, were after most of the mesh bags time frame.

Small size for investor run. Maybe tank wash but most all of them were more colors ? Could be Alley with accidental not planned av ?

MK patch and ribbon.

Many identifications are a matter of elimination . Eliminate what you know it is not and then pick from the left overs.

No cork. Now looks more like ribbons. Maybe Champion or CAC swirl ? Thanks that one extra picture helped me.

Correct !

Does it cork ? I am not sure with the pics ? Colors ok for Champion but it might be a cork pattern and Akro ? All the pictures look like a corkscrew pattern except maybe the last one. Some WV swirls and Jabos do cork.

At 1.00 inch size there are not many choices Who made swirls this size ? Vacor, Jabo, Alley, Peltier, foreign, that is about all. So what would the choice be ?

I agree with Ric. It does not have enough traits to really separate it from two or three other swirl makers. Not every marble can be narrowed to one company alone. Being a $0.25 to $1.00 marble at the most it is not a big factor as to who made it.

I agree close but just short of the real Easter Egg,

1990's Champion

1990's Champion.

Tom Sawyer mesh bag with Vitro marbles. This bag of marbles came with a paddle ball toy. For those old enough who know what paddle ball was. The marbles were a give away free to get people to buy the paddle ball toy. Plus Tom Sawyer got their advertisement in front of the kids. Vitro sold their marbles, Tom Sawyer got advertisement, some one had the patent for and supplied the bags, and a toy company sold their toy. Sadly the wood paddle is missing. The mesh bag is worth $150.00-$200.00. With the complete paddle ball kit, it would be $300.00 . Free marbles back then. Soda bottle hangers had free marbles. A gas service station, a Esso near me in the early 1950's had a short drum between the gas pumps. When someone got a complete fill up, the children were allowed to get a hand full of Marble KIng marbles free. This was all over the country. The drums were red white and blue with Marble King logo on them. These drums are very rare now. Buy a new pair of Buster Brown shoes and get free bag of marbles. Marbles were free. Companies bought the marbles to help sell their products. Marbles that now cost $100.00 each, many were free 60- 70 years ago. We forget that they were VERY cheap to make and sold cheap as kids toys. Mesh bags $150.00- $200.00 Plastic bags $15.00- $30.00

A machine made total 100% red marble would be a game marble. The kids knew game marbles were plentiful and they did not collect or play with them. So why would the Vitro Company name, and go to the extra cost, to specially package and advertise solid red marbles ? Maybe it should have been Always Red or Red Flasher or others. But they chose All Red, maybe because it was cheaper to print, less space on a header ? Maybe because all the marbles in that bag had red ? Maybe All Red was easy for kids to read and spell ? There are a million of bags available today labeled Vitro All Red Marbles. Some old, some up to 1986. The All red was one of Vitro's most produced marbles. So the play on the All Red name must have worked. The kids understood it and that was what the Vitro Co. was after. When a All Red marble rolled, kids saw red color.

A USA National regulation shooter is 3/4 inch. Above 3/4 inch is a Boulder. Over one inch some call them Toe breakers. I also do not use Boulder or any certain term until it is 7/8 to one inch size. Just like pee wee, what is the term or name between 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch size . The between sizes really do not have a name or set term. I said Boulder because it was between 7/8 inch and one inch size. Many people call and list for sale 7/8 inch and over marbles as shooters. A shooter is 3/4 inch. Pictures of single marbles can be misleading of the size unless it is listed or stated. Use the actual number size and no problem. People have different understanding with names. Exactly what is required for any name ? You get lots of opinions, terms, size name, marble names, etc. Put a name with it and it gets more complicated. Put a name with it and most people think more money. If the name is true, maybe more money ? If false someone will be very disappointed. Are marble collectors, collecting, buying and selling marbles or names ? I have a nice shooter Superman for sale. What is it worth ? About thirty years ago that was easy to answer. Today that can be from lots of different companies and from $5.00 to $300.00. Thirty years ago, it was a 3/4 inch NLR Peltier Superman with blue, red and yellow.

I agree.

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The first bag has a couple Vitro Type Two Tiger Eyes. The Type Two Tigers Eyes are the more sought after Tiger eyes. Type One = about $0.25 to $0.50 . Type Two = $10.00 to $15.00. Type Three = $0.50 to $0.75 . Type Four $1.00 to $3.00. So the first bag may be worth $30.00-$35.00 because of the two Type Two Tiger Eyes. If they see the Type Two Tiger Eyes ? The bag just above which has Type One Tiger Eyes, usually sells for $15.00 to $20.00. This is normal marble show prices to collectors. Ebay prices are unpredictable, some may be much lower or some may be much higher ? You can also find Tom Sawyer mesh bags with Vitro marbles. Don't confuse the plastic bag prices with older more rare mesh bags. Those are lots more money. I will take and post a picture of a Tom Sawyer mesh bag with Vitro marbles.