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I think it is Akro.

More pictures and angles or sides of each marble helps. Plus the staggered order makes this more confusing. Size can be important in identifications. I think the clear/white base and yellow swirl is pictured here twice and it is Alley Agate swirl. The center marble white base red/blue/yellow is foreign to the US. The bottom left clear base red and white is probable foreign(maybe Wales)to the US or a Vitro Conqueror. I cannot tell with one view ? The top right white base red and blue probably a Peltier liberty.

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All Alley Agate glass animals. Made at Pennsboro WV 1932-1937 and St. Marys WV 1937- 1945. Included are the brass cut outs from the molds. The two only known yellow birds. These are shown in the last Alley Agate You Tube video by Stephen Bahr. These are also in the Larry Alley, first green soft cover Alley book. But be careful, not much doubt that Smith Glass in PA probably bought or got some of the Alley molds. There is a difference in older Alley and later Smith animals. Any frosted or iridescence are later Smith. Just like marbles there are some that are very close but with fine details, they are different.

You nailed it Josh ! Once again this reminds us just how close marbles from different companies can be. Another reason good close pictures, numbers of them and how important size can be in many identifications.

Contemporary handmade clay pee wees !/4 inch - 0.25 to 0.15 . Glass contemporary handmade pee wee's 0.23 to0.17

Alley pee wee's all under 1/2 inch. The two white base and blue swirls both have are full of blue aventurine. More Alley pee wee's 0.43 to 0.32

Turn the Blue one. It is the same exact picture as used in the post by Jeremey This is 0.93, that has the Vitro Parrot. You don't need to turn it again. It was turned more than once in the other post and identified as Vitro Parrot. We will see yellow but on a Vitro Parrot.

It is so rough, I am not sure. Probably Alley.

I don't know of many Akro marbles that will compete with prices of Peltiers. Not many single Akros sell for $2000.00 and more. There is a long list of Peltiers for $1000.00 and longer list for $500.00 Peltiers. A Peltier mint Green Lantern now might command $3000.00 . I have seen more than one Blue Galaxy for $2000.00. How about Silver Surfer, Blue Lagoon, Green Rebel, Goblin, Orians Belt and many more, all way above Golden Rebel. What Akro single marbles compete with those ? If you are going to be a serious Peltier collector, you better have a good bank account. The prices forced me to sell most of the above. My Peltier collection got very thin. But the prices were nice. Prices going up so much is driving many to collecting Cat Eyes, which I predicted ten years ago. Nice rare original mesh bags have disappeared. Some original 100 count Peltier box sets have sold for $20,000.00 and more.

Demand sets prices. A lot can change with marbles in five years. New information and new collectors appear every week. Both of those affect prices. A lot of glassware prices have dropped off bad. But marbles are still climbing and more collectors than ever.

Tough, blue.white generic WV swirl. Could be from two or three companies ?

Mega Marbles was the USA distributer for Vacor marbles from Mexico.

Close to Alley. But the white base and the last picture points to Jabo.

Correct

Who made 1 1/4 inch marbles as standard production ? Start there.

Those Akro bags are the best I have seen. Plus to have a pair of them Wow !

Alley

Flames years ago were three or more sharp tips near each other. Over the years it just keeps getting stretched now ,I guess it must be up to 5. When flame tip numbers keep going up, I guess the requirement number is going up also. If it has 3 or four or more on one side near each other, I still call them flames. Not unusual to see a flame now with 15-20-25 and more flame tips.

I vote Jabo.

I would say Ravenswood. Where marbles touch metal and each other for long time, years, they will get stains. Different things can be used to remove stains other than just dust or dirt. Do not use Muratic acid , do not use any type acid, do not use ZEP cleaner. Some abrasive cleaners will do it, but sometimes also lightly scratch the marble. Very fine steel wool will clean most . Old marbles are much tougher than newer ones. You have to apply a lot of pressure to scratch old marbles. A list of cleaners people use on marbles. Plus let them soak in any cleaner, soak time differs with how difficult and how old the stain is. Dawn Bleach Toliet bowl cleaners CLR Lime Away Denture cleaner Tooth Paste Chrome cleaner Never Dull Brasso Comet, Ajax, etc. Many more I have used a razor blade and a sharp knife blade to scrape junk from marbles. Either that or leave it on the marble ? Either do what ever it takes to remove the foreign material or leave it alone. Work your way up, liquid cleaners to more aggressive abrasive cleaners, steel wool, or steel blade.