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Jabo

Possible Champion.

100% Jabo. I have a 1/2 gallon or more of these exact marbles.

Good choice.

Not sure the blue and black one is a Akro Corkscrew ? I see two cut lines cutting the black ribbon in half.

You are welcome. Most all collectors do collect or has collected Akro corkscrews. They are one of the easiest vintage marbles to learn how to identify them. Some will still slip by seasoned collectors. A spinner cup that made corks.

Very good possible as Heaton.

Peltier Blue Lagoon totally different and has silver or black or both colors of aventurine as a requirement. I have had the silver av and the black av Blue Lagoons.

Akro slag

You can collect Akro corkscrews a lifetime and not get all the color combinations and in different sizes. Each collector has a different opinion what are the most difficult color combinations to find. Some of that depends on the persons location and how much they travel or how hard they hunt marbles. They will be two colors, three colors, four colors and a few five colors. About every glass color possible has been used on a corkscrew. Plus the different types of corkscrews, snakes, augers, prize name, specials, etc. Snakes and others also come in two or three colors and oxblood. Then there are all the Popeyes and multicolor hybird Popeyes. Just no end to collecting Akro corkscrew marbles.

X3

Nice pics. A marble used as intended and a good life. It deserves retirement.

Dave lives north of Denver. He does not sell in any place town, just from his home. I talked with him by phone about three weeks ago. When Dave very first started making marbles, he ask me if I thought anyone would buy them. I said of course and he ask if I would try to sell some for him. It was not long that he got very good at it and his sales exploded. He then made the special boxes and bags for sets as people wanted. He stayed busy filling orders, many special request for certain marbles. Then he went through a divorce and was away from marbles vintage and his hand made ones. He has been making them again now for a year or more. He will be at the Des Moines Iowa show. If interested message me and I can give his contact info or he can contact you. I will try to take some pictures of a few of his earlier marbles and post here. He can copy about any companies marbles but with much more bling, sparkle, aventurine, lutz, big numbers of flames, agate pattern, corks, whatever, and different sizes.

Colorado

I had not seen this site. Not sure who built the site ? I see they have the Ravenswood Solar Flare under the Champion section.

Every machine made company had some ying yang pattern errors. Many machine made companies had some corkscrew or near corkscrew pattern errors. Not panned standard production.

Agree common Alley swirl.

American Marble and Toy Akro Ohio. One year before S.K. Dyke opened his new factory July 15,1890. He filed for patent no. 432,127. A device to mass produce clay marbles. Marbles were rolled in a block until they attained near-perfect symmetry. Workers produced one million marbles per day, until the factory burned in 1904.

They must have made the roller marbles. S Dyke had a patent for making them. They were advertised and sold from there. They were dug there at the site by Brian G. and others.

I see a nice Type Two. Most will be type one. Then type three, type four and type two the least.

Akro

LOL That is what all my marbles are.

Definite not CAC. Likely Jabo. Never rely on any Ebay listing for identifications. Know what you are buying. Unless you are more rich than most of us. Buying unknown marbles most times will end in disappointment. No different than buying a Ford Escort marked as Cadilliac on the windshield. Anyone in doubt always check before buying. Buyer beware.

The original marble above is probably purple glass. There are millions, billions of these black looking dark WV swirls that were made by almost every WV swirl company. None of them will be true opaque black glass. If thinned enough they will be purple. brown, green or blue. The ways some of these can be separated is the pattern of the white swirl. how bright the white is, how much it looks black, what the actual true color is. A lot of the Ravenswoods are dark brown. With a lot of years and 100% known examples in hand, some of these can be separated by company. This is a big reason they have very little value, plus the numbers available. A key to Jackson marbles is learning which ones glow. Once that is done those are easy to identify. It is the ones which have the cream colored or dirty white colored Vitrolite glass, which do glow. The more white or more near snow white in Jacksons do not glow. Jacksons These glow These glow No glow T These three groups below Glow These do not glow

It is very hard to grade a marble by a picture. To grade a marble correct you need a 10X or more power loupe. Any 10.0 marble is very rare. I never did understand wet mint. Where does wet mint fit in the mint 9.0 to 10.0 grade scale ? What is the difference in dry mint or wet mint ? A mint range marble can look dry or wet. Dry or wet looking has nothing to do with the grade. Accurate grade by a picture is just that, a grade on the picture. Depends on how good the photo is, it may determine the grade. Loupe, magnify with 10x or 20x any marble and you may be surprised at what you see. A accurate grade is done with magnification. Watch old time or experienced collectors at a show. If they are looking at or buying a $100.00 or $500.00 marble. They will put it under a loupe before buying. Some wear jeweler's glasses on their head in every room looking at marbles. I try to have a loupe in my pocket for use any time at every marble show. I bought a Vitro Aquamarine at the recent Florida show. When I got home and put it in front of the camera at 10x zoom. I was disappointed. It was not any high dollar marble but under magnification, it was only low nm. It should have been about $2,00-$3.00. But I did not loupe it and paid $8.00. The seller ask $10.00 and gave me a deal for $8.00. But later at home, under magnification the deal was not so good. I have way more than enough nm Vitro Aquamarine marbles. If you pay $100.00 for a marble, then you or someone else loupe's it later and find out it is a $25.00 marble, you learn. To many learning lessons can get expensive. There are mint marbles. Mint means a range of 9.0 to 10.0. There are some 10.0 marbles, but they are rare. Of course rare also has a different meaning to each person. I have had and sold 10.0 marbles. Most marbles that make 9.5 to 9.8 you will see no damage with the naked eye. But under a loupe or magnification you will see it. I have found many marbles with fractures and only found the fracture with a loupe. This is true especially fractures along the edge of a color. Get a loupe or something 10X and then grade your marbles. If you really want disappointment use 20x magnification. I have a 30x and a 40x but very rarely use them. They can be found on Ebay and Amazon at modest and cheap prices. The glass ones will last longer than plastic. Different styles and sizes, some harder to use than others. A annealing fracture is a as made, is that marble mint ? Some people take nothing away for as mades. I do not like as mades. So I do take them into consideration when buying or selling. If not considered in the grade, then any seller should mention any as made. Many people rely on Marblealan's grading scale or system which he used. He did grade accurate and always the same. There is no set standard grading scale for marbles. No place to send them off for any official documented guaranteed grade . Nothing that will hold up for insurance claims or in any court. Nothing like coins, comic books, baseball cards and other collectables.