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That was my thoughts, a Jabo. To large for Champion furnace marble. There are some 9/16 - 1/2 inch and smaller Furnace marbles close this. But none near 3/4 inch size ones that I ever knew of. I do not know of any near 3/4 Champion Furnace marbles. A few 11/16 but no 3/4 inch. Size does matter with many marbles. Size can be used to eliminate many marbles for identifications. Identifications many times is a matter of elimination. Champion made a few 3/4 inch marbles but not Furnace marbles.

All I am sure of is that Marble King has this exact color combo. Also Heaton has the same colors. Maybe so does Peltier ?

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Every WV swirl company made millions these.

I am not positive but I got my first one as a CAC probably fifteen years ago or more, They are not any Jabo investor run for sure. They are not older Jabo classics for sure. The quality is very very good on these, glass and color. They are older than the Jabo investor runs. The pink is a bleed from the orange on top of and into the nice white base. The dark color or line maybe left over from a blue that was run before these or just starting to come in after these were made. Probably left over blue. Blue is bad at taking over a furnace/tank and lasting much longer than most all other colors. Add red and if you see it, it may last five minutes. Add the same amount of blue and it will show up for thirty minutes or more.

The video shows only a small portion of her collection. She has collected about thirty years and never ever sold a marble. She has never ever been to any marble show or many auctions, flea markets, that she never came home with numbers of them. She has had a shoe box and more full sorting them on the way back to WV from shows. If she likes one of a certain color or maker. She may buy a dozen of them in time. She says if she likes one she would like ten even better. They can be four for a dollar or five hundred dollars each, she likes them all. She has the 12 inches by 18 inches oak and black Riker display cases full of Alleys. They are stacked from the floor on top of each other to the ceiling. That is just the Alleys. A few years ago she decided that she liked MK Girl Scouts. Well about a year later she had a glass rolling pin full of them. I am waiting on her to fill a glass rolling pin with Blue Galaxies, LOL. What is important is that it makes her smile and happy. Plus she can dig like a ground hog, whistle pig, woodchuck, daylight until dark. Even in the dark. Get em all.

Those Red Micas are about as rare as a Lightning Bolt. Over twenty five years and I have one. I have only seen about three for sale in twenty five years. Block just sold one, in one of his online marble auctions. But it was not cheap. Ric maybe we can race looking for a pink Benny. I bought a nice one at the recent FL show. I am also looking for it. Yesterday I found a 1 3/4 inch solid core in my coat pocket. A coat that I had on coming home from the Jan. Indy show. I bought it as I was leaving and forgot about it until I put the coat on again yesterday. But no pink Benny in that coat. It will roll out or up here sometime.

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What size is it ?

Mine went in the trash many years ago. Mine were not going to rip off someone else.

As for the orange and pink Alleys. I have been researching them for six maybe eight years. They are either Alley or CAC. I have showed them to and ask several CAC people and Cambridge diggers about them. They have all said no to CAC. There must not be any good numbers of them available. The four above are the different variations. These pictures do not show the orange, maybe fading, to pink well. The ones with the darker lines also seem to be even more rare. Alley for sure has the same exact orange and lots of it. Thousands and thousands of white base and orange swirls and flames. Nola dug about 300 of them at Pennsboro in a two foot square. That was the only marbles in that one small spot. Maybe six or eight of those had some of the pink along side of the orange. But with some of these the pink stands out or shows more. Two CAC collectors who live in Cambridge and dug there years ago, told me they were not CAC. Craig Cereny and others also said they are not CAC. So I have them with my Alleys.

I admit that I did it the first year that I was into marbles back in 1995 or 1996. It was not the only or last time that I got burnt. Research pays off. Too good to be true, is usually accurate. Never buy under pressure or at the last minute. Buy marbles not names.

Another Thank You to Stephen. Watch for the next new one to come. It is all about American Marble and Toy of Akron Ohio. Some very rare items in the next video. I want to post pictures now but you will have to wait for the video.

Nice Vitro Tri Lites.

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Nice Woodland Camo Alleys. They forgot the browns in the back row center one.

The very first requirement for a Akro Popeye is a clear base. A clear base with white striations or white strands(not solid), plus two or more other colors. They can be a corkscrew or patch type. Clear base, white strands and three or more colors are hybrid Popeye's and much more valuable. Hybrid Popeyes

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Looks like it also has some light brown or tan in it. With the long stretched tips trying to flame and the 0.70 size is a little large for Heaton. I would lean more Alley over Heaton.

I thought that I saw some blue in the white so that is why I said messed up Yellow Jacket.

Alley on the left. Akro corkscrew on the right. I would not label it any hybrid. What is hybrid about it ? Not sure I have seen any Akro corkscrew that I would label hybrid. They made about every combination of every color possible.