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My Latest additions to my claw agate collection.

Thank you ! The people who shared with me would take nothing in return. The only thing any of them ask of me. Was that I pass the information forward. Most of them are gone now, a long list. But their information is still on the move. They all were so amazed that anyone cared at all or had any interest in what they did years ago making toy marbles.

I have never heard of Rainbow Varicolor ? I see maybe three colors were added to the white base glass. Red or orange, brown, maybe very light green. Or likely green over left from previous marbles ? No black, no oxblood, no yellow. The pink is actually thin red/orange over top of white. The dark looking thin lines are burnt color or clear. The brown may also be burnt red. I see different colors with the different pictures. Some look more red and some look more orange. I would not label it 7 colors with ox. A Marble King weak hybrid rainbow.

Jabo

Cairo Novelty. A big C on about half the marble. Even the white side has the short glass stream sign. The C with the ? in the center and pinched together. Cairos has the big C or S pattern on about half of the marble. Lots of times they can be confused with Jabo. Cairo Novelty, a few Heatons. very late St.Marys Alleys and Jabo classics. All were short length glass stream from the furnace orifice outlet to the shear. The hot gob does not have time to twist around and around. So the striping color folds around over on itself in a C or S as it hits and piles on the shear plate, as the first cut is made . The shear blade then pushes back across and makes the second tighter pinch or more closed C on the opposite side. The flat shear blade is working fast back and forth horizontal between two thick hallow blocks of steel. Hallow for water flow to keep the steel shear blocks cool. The blade makes two cuts going across and also coming back . Each pass of the shear blade across or through the shear blocks, makes two marbles. Each marble with two cuts , one the bottom of marble and one the top of the marble. Watch one of several videos on You Tube of making machine made marbles. You will see the shear block and shear blade working back and forth cutting the hot glass glob. Then each glob, one to the left and one to the right falls down a chute to the marble machine rolls. Where the machine rounds the hot glob in the first three or four roll groves and the rest of the rolls length are for cooling. Shear blade Cairo marbles below. Not all 100% like these but most are this pattern.

Left Alley or CAC. Three looks, I might go with CAC. The one on the right ?????

Master

Caw Caw

Alley for sure. 01:42 am here.

Heaton had very few with yellow. Pictures are so large that I have to move the computer away from me. Far as my arms will reach to see the marbles.

Thanks, they look different now. In the first picture, the top looked some like a Alley Carnival if it had more black. A much different orange and lighter green in these second pictures.

MK

The last one looks out of round. Odd swirl pattern, colors burnt some around the edges. The base looks like heavy metallic.

What is the one on top and the one to the right ?

New glass, Vacor.

Marble King Cats. Lots of new unused rolls of these bags were dug at St.Marys WV,. A hundred or three hundred per roll. So a lot of these bags were filled at St.Marys WV.

Cairo Novelty

Me 3

You should also check out the Named Heatons thread. Possible Heaton Sweet Potato. I am not sure that I can separate some Heaton's from Ravenswood's. Or did Heaton buy Ravenswood's ??????? These below were all dug at the Heaton Agate factory site the last two years. We dug at Heaton = 3 Slags, dozen or more Akro corks, lots of 7/8 inch Masters , Ravenswood, MK, Vitro, 3 Peltier Rainbo's,

Alley

Yes

I see the marbles often but not the box. I thought maybe the critter came out of a 1960's space ship.