AvvaRae Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 .11.5 & 12mm second one ✅ Both side by side natural light 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 First is another Imperial IMO, just guessing but the second looks that way as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 I would've guessed MK. I Probably guessed wrong. Pretty mibs though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvvaRae Posted September 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 29 minutes ago, Chad G. said: First is another Imperial IMO, just guessing but the second looks that way as well. Thank you! I gotta look that manufacturer up because it's not familiar. I am guessing a new brand like Vacor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gail Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 Nice AvvaRae. ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted September 18, 2023 Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 Imperial is not a manufacturer. Imperial Toy Company, previously out of the L.A. area, is a packager of marbles. Back in the late 70's & early 80's, they packaged Vacor marbles. Then, they found cheaper marbles in Asia, like the ones you posted, and started buying them. As we don't know manufacturers names from Asia, the collecting community starting calling these marbles, generically, Imperial. Here are a few bags/package pics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvvaRae Posted September 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2023 16 minutes ago, Al Oregon said: Imperial is not a manufacturer. Imperial Toy Company, previously out of the L.A. area, is a packager of marbles. Back in the late 70's & early 80's, they packaged Vacor marbles. Then, they found cheaper marbles in Asia, like the ones you posted, and started buying them. As we don't know manufacturers names from Asia, the collecting community starting calling these marbles, generically, Imperial. Here are a few bags/package pics. Ohhhhh okay. That makes a lot of sense .. I've never seen these before ... Well I definitely love the green and pink... more digging reading and learning hahaha .. it's a never ending fountain ... Thank you for explaining the company 🙂 I have books coming from Amazon (for like the last month I've been waiting) the identification ones so I'm hoping that helps me ... would imperial be in those types of books or is that sort of outside learning since it's another country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted September 19, 2023 Report Share Posted September 19, 2023 Probably not because it is not a marble manufacturer but they may reference something like I explained above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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