Vacor with AV?

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

Size 21/32" 

[William]

Looks Asian/Imperial?

[akroorka]

This one is a Vacor--maybe a "Dragonfly"

Lets as @Mojo for an opinion here.

Marble--On!!

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

I can't post the video or I would but its really loaded with sparkle. I'm gonna try to edit the video and shorten it 

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

Video with the Aventurine! 

[The Nickel Guy]

All I see is an audio player bar and it sounds like Sesame Street Elmo and his favorite scientist?

[Alan]

Its not as if excess colorant in glass is a rare or valuable thing.  It can appear in most glass colors when there is undissolved colorant in the glass, or in the cullet.

[I'llhavethat1]

Cool, video worked for me.  I can see the sparkle.  

More often than not, it's incidental in marbles and some people collect examples based on eye appeal alone (similar to examples with incidental debris, oven brick, large bubbles, "UV POP"list goes on and on.)

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

On that marble its only on that side of it. The other side doesn't have it. It really looks intentional. It looks just like the av on the zebra marble that I have. 

[Alan]

1 hour ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said:

On that marble its only on that side of it. The other side doesn't have it. It really looks intentional. It looks just like the av on the zebra marble that I have. 

Vintage manufacturers didn't have a big barrel of "aventurine" that they chose to add rarely - or at all.

Fun fact:  "Aventurine" is a stone.  A mineral.  Quartz to be specific.  There is no quartz in glass marbles.

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

4 hours ago, Alan said:

Vintage manufacturers didn't have a big barrel of "aventurine" that they chose to add rarely - or at all.

Fun fact:  "Aventurine" is a stone.  A mineral.  Quartz to be specific.  There is no quartz in glass marbles.

Thank you for the information I wasnt sure exactly what AV was. I thought it was maybe crushed up glass or something. 

[Alan]

3 hours ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said:

Thank you for the information I wasnt sure exactly what AV was. I thought it was maybe crushed up glass or something. 

In pretty much all cases - it is undissolved (or precipitated) colorant flakes in the glass.  Those flakes reflect light in most cases.  A company like Peltier intentionally used it to very good advantage to cause dense colorant in the glass for specific NLRs (Golden Rebel, Zebras etc).  It was more expensive for them to use excess colorant in that way, which is probably why it was done so sparingly.  Marbles had to be made ultra-cheaply.