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Better than five or ten Shimmering Spruce marbles. Good example of a name does not mean high dollar.

It takes time and lots of effort. But the puzzle pieces will fit more together with each month, then years. You have to go find it. It will not come to you. Use different sources and then make up your mind. Then once you make up your mind, more new or better information may come about. You need a open mind and to stay updated. Lots of marble information and myths has changed and fast the last five to ten years. I am sure there is more to come.

I think it is Peltier. But a name ??????

Cut lines can help. But they can change even within the same company. A different type shear, old blades, new blades, hot or cold glass, etc. Very little 100% with marbles. Identification is use as many traits as possible. Many Akro, Vitro and Marble King cut lines can be very similar. Then most of the WV swirls, Jabos and more, show no cut lines.

I agree just a large Vitro patch that swirled or twisted as many large Vitro do.

Akro Sparkler should have four or five colors with a clear base.

No Conqueror. A Vitro Tri-Lite. Most of the Tri-Lite marbles were from the early Vienna WV location. They are normally very high quality nice clear glass with bright colors for the ribbons. Most are at least three, many are four and five colors. Tri-Lite means at least three colors, other than the base, plus Lite means bright. Most will have a clear base. Most Conquerors are two or three colors and cheaper glass. But the Exotic or Fancy Conquerors are the older better Conquerors.

The author was Kevin Roberts, myself and Chuck Brandstetter and it is located on All About Marbles chat board which is owned by Chad Cline. It is under the identification section as the Guide to Vitro marbles. One of the best Vitro guides made.

No. An air or gas bubble pop on the surface is a trait with many Peltier marbles.

Vitro Buttermilk= white base, buttermilk yellow, nice red and cobalt to medium blue.

MFC and slags can be up around two inch size.

As Ric said they are referred to as gems or marble flats. They are made this way as standard production. They are made with machine rolls much shorter than normal marble machine rolls. Normal roll lengths may be eight feet. The gems or flats only require rolls of eight to twelve or sixteen inches long. Many different companies all over made gems or flats. The gems or flats are used for decoration, crafts, flower arrangements, fish tanks, etc.

Same here.

Alley Bacon. The green color is getting thin and running out.

No longer made but can be found on Ebay and cheap. Sony Cybershot T-200. The t-200 has the super Macro for nice very close up pictures. Small easy to operate, cheap, Carl Ziess lens, all accessories, battery, etc. cheap. There are other Sony Cybershot models, but I like the T-200 the best. I bought three about two months ago and all under $35.00. All worked and looked new. Do some searching on Ebay-Sony Cybershot T-200. Most have instruction manual. Manual is also on line. Once you set it up , pictures size vga, etc. just point and shoot.

The lighter blue and the twisting looks Ravenswood to me.

Just a Vitro patch. Not All Red.

I think the large 1 1/4 inch and over Vacor marbles have been called Jaw Breakers. Mega is a company name(jobber)that distributed Vacor marbles in the USA. Mega Co. never made any marbles.

The Coke bag pictures is not focused well enough to be sure about the marbles. But most or 95% of the coke bags are fake or fantasy bags. The only original Coke bags I can think of are the bottle hanger bags which have a hole in the header to hang on a Coke bottle. The yellow mesh could be older but it has been sold in rolls of new old unused stock. The two Vitro bags are original. But later Vitro as they say Gladding-Vitro. This when the original Vitro Agate Co. was sold to The Gladding Company. The marbles are later Vitro All Reds from around 1980-1986. The single marbles are worth about ten cents each to the big majority of collectors. The Gladding-Vitro bags with these marbles are worth about $5.00 each. I have had good numbers of them and ended up giving many away free. If the Coke bag is a fantasy bag it is zero value to collectors. Wish I had better news but it is what it is.

Cullet is scrap glass. Can be many forms. whiskey bottles, tail light lens, soda bottles, beer bottles, Fenton and many other art glass companies, Vitrolite, Wissmach, etc. A long list of scrap glass. Gabbert glass in Williamstown WV specializes in nothing but resale of scrap glass. Ravenswood Novelty's main opaque white cullet was Ponds Cold Creme jars. But just not any glass can be mixed. It has to be the right coefficient to put them together. If the coefficient is to far apart, all the marbles will fracture. That is what happened to the Champion Furnace marbles. They knew that and planned on it. But it never worked at cleaning out the furnace.

Fiction. Machine made marbles were made because it was a thousand times cheaper to make them by machine,. Handmade marbles are handmade from a glass cane. Depending on the marble size, you might get four or six marbles from a cane. Gather and make a cane, cut four marbles off, maybe 15 minutes for four marbles. Machine made marbles are 5/8 size about 250 per minute. Twelve to twenty marbles per hour or 15,000 per hour ? There are glass recipes for black glass. Most of actual black glass is from raw batch glass. Not from cullet which most all companies switched to as competition came along.

Many times I wish there was a better way. But it is what it is.

Akro slag

Later Vitro All Red.

Later Vitro All Red. It was sprayed with alcohol or other special liquid while hot, to make it iridescent. Vitro did big numbers of them in the 1980's especially All Reds. Plus Jabo did a lot of different classics iridescent. I sprayed several of those at Jabo. It makes them extra shiny and some will look like chrome. I think Vacor and maybe some Asian marbles are also iridescent.