Alley Swirl, Two Akro's and a Furnace?

[Leigh]

I'm trying my best to identify these marbles myself, but would like the opinion of others as I'm been wrong more than I've been right. Is the first an Alley Swirl, the second an Akro Prize Name, the third an Akro of some sort (or maybe a Vitro?) and the last maybe a Champion Furnace? 

[wvrons]

Alley

Akro cork

Cairo Novelty

Alley

 

No Champion furnace marbles with the majority color being blue. Most Champion furnace marbles are yellow, orange, red, brown, off white, pink or a combination of these colors. A few of the better high dollar ones will have a small amount or line of blue. 

Champion furnace marbles

[Leigh]

24 minutes ago, wvrons said:

Alley

Akro cork

Cairo Novelty

Alley

 

No Champion furnace marbles with the majority color being blue. Most Champion furnace marbles are yellow, orange, red, brown, off white, pink or a combination of these colors. A few of the better high dollar ones will have a small amount or line of blue. 

Champion furnace marbles

Thank you for the explanation. The Furnace marbles are beautiful! I definitely will be looking to add one to my collection! 

[wvrons]

The third marble is a swirl. Akro made almost no swirl style marbles. Maybe only two or three color combos total out of thousands of color combos. Any Akro swirl is rare and limited. 

The third marble is Cairo Novelty because. 

The biggest trait is the swirl pattern. The red makes a 9 pattern or twist. Trait #2, the swirl color is only on half of the marble, only on one side.  Trait #3, it is cheap glass, seedy glass(bubbles), the white is from cheap cullet, the red thins to orange and then yellow. 

The C or a closed C or S or 9 pattern and on only half off the marble is a big trait for Cairo Novelty, a few Heaton, Jabo classics and later plain two color St.Marys Alleys.

This happens because of a short length hot glass stream from the furnace to the shear. The stream does not have time to twist as it falls to the shear. When it hits the shear plate or blade it falls or folds over on itself making the C-S or 9 pattern. 

Not every Cairo Novelty marble will have the C-S or 9 pattern and only on half of the marble. But about 75% of them will have it. It is always majority. Very little 100% with marbles.

A long hot glass stream from the furnace to the shear makes more twist. It turns and twist like water going down a drain.  A eight inch long water stream falling to a drain will twist many more times than a two inch water stream going to a drain. Hot glass is the same just a lot slower.   

[Carowill]

Great information regarding Cairo identification!