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Possible Peltier Rainbos and two other mystery marbles


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Here are four marbles I am seeking input for identification.

Marble 1 has an opaque light milky yellow-green base with two transparent green ribbons. I believe it is Peltier Rainbo.  The ribbons are so far apart they form small patches at the pole (one looking like a twitter icon, and the other a Lima bean).  The base glass is not fluorescent.

Marble 2 has a green and orange combination, very similar to some Akro Prize Names I have seen, but judging from the cut lines, I think this too is a Peltier Rainbo, but unsure.

Marble 3 has an opaque light milky opaque  yellow-green base, with a transparent patch with green and white filaments.  The base glass is blazingly bright UV fluorescent.  I think this is an Akro patch, but could be a Master Made marble.  The fifth view shows the marble with backlighting. The UV image broke the camera.😉

Marble 4 has colors superficially reminiscent of an Akro Popeye.  This is no Akro Popeye, though, and I would categorize it as more as a catseye.  It is decades old, but it has a very slightly orange peel surface suggests to me this might Vacor de Mexico marble, maybe from the 1990's,  that I am not familiar with.

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The first two look like pelts to me, although number 2 is a rare killer if it is.

Number three looks more like a Master Marble to me--not Master Glass.

The last one is not what it was intended to look like no matter who made it and it could be one of many. It reminds me of something that I cannot recall at this point. The glass does look like it has some orange peeling---hmmmm?

Marble--On!!!

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Hi Dannyboy,

It is a bit over 5/8 inch, about 21/32, and the colors are red (edge-on grading to orange), yellow, and white. The reason I mentioned Akro Popeyes, is that the colors a very similar to, but not exactly I think, to a red and yellow Popeye, and some of the white is as fine filaments, but again I don't think this a pop-eye gone wrong.  As per the attached side image, there are actually three parallel zip-zag streams of red, yellow, and white. I think akroorka is right in that the marble came out different than intended, and it was to be a type of cat's eye with a zig-zag red-yellow-white core.

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