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Eryngium planum - my second year growing and first year seeing the flowers! 🤩

Latest arrival - pretty sure it's Marble King from the seams but not a standard Rainbow and I can't find any similar examples...

Or am I off with MK?

Would love any input! Thank you!

June in Scotland 🤷

I've been trying to find ways to better identify transitional marbles based on seams

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It can be tricky to see them sometimes, so today I used bluetack to make an impression! And it worked really well!

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The green marble has a simple line, suggesting pinch pontil, which is associated with some of the early US makers

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The brown marble leaves a very spidery mark, which is indicative of a crease pontil, commonly associated with Japanese transitionals, like those from Yasuda and Seike (tho don't ask me how to tell those 2 apart 🫣)

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Would love to see impressions from any identified US makers for comparison with the pinches I have found so far!

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Two that seemed odd ones out in my WV Swirl box

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The first looks to be an Akro Corkscrew! Slipped by during an early sort

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The second is probably a WV swirl, maybe Alley, but there's something about the red that seems more similar to the red of some Rainbos I have than the other WV swirls I have with a blue base 🤔

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Thanks for taking a look - appreciate all input?

I have a cheap USB microscope, so decided to take some photos of adventurine marbles!

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The first is a 3 vane cats eye - I have over a dozen of these! 🤩

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The second is a recent DAS (?) with black aventurine - better photo as the aventurine is on the surface

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The last is an Oxblood sparkler I have - was curious how it would look, but it's a lot harder to get good close-ups! You can see how opaque and flat it looks, but not enough magnification to see anything more definitive

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I might do some photos of creases & pontils next

Hello!

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A few recent marbles I'd love to get confirmed IDs for - appreciate any and all input!

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All fairly standard size - no shooters or peewees

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1. I think this is a Peltier 6 Finger/Ribbon marble - first one I've found!

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2. Assuming Peltier Rainbo due to the distinctive seam (tho I can't find the link - it might be Imgur, but I think I remember Peltier being one that has this type of close-together seam

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3. Leaning Asian but wondering if it could be Vitro

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4. Another where Vitro crossed my mind, but I think this is JABO due to the fact the white contains uranium glass, and I think there are also some swirls of green uranium in the middle; can post photos in the comments if anyone is interested

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5. Probably Asian, maybe Seike - the 2 different types of white glass is interesting

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6. A load of Wisplers from the same lot 🥰

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Thank you for your time!

Back again, after a month of tidying up my data so I can share an accurate-as-possible overview of the **marble makers I have found so far, and their specific IDs**.

Since my last post, I've added 172 marbles to my database (still more to check in, but so it goes), and am still at around 1/3 identified in some way (Total: 3780.5).

A few caveats below:

- Only marbles where a maker or other definitive ID has been made or suggested; not all IDs are fully confirmed but I grouped the queries with the confirmed as in most cases, there were more definitive than queried

-- The main exception to this was Master - I have a lot with Master-like seams that I wasn't able to pin to any confirmed types, and I think many are likely Wisplers of some type [tho I did recently find out Bogard did Wispler-style cats eyes for a while (Mountaineer shooter packs)...]

- Where Maker information isn't readily available, I've used Type in place e.g. Euro Sparklers, Wisplers, German hand-mades etc

- I assumed that the Codd Bottle marbles I have found were UK-made, as this was the main place, especially for the older type with a seam; they were also made across the commonwealth, and similar bottles are still used today e.g. Ramune

**Vitro** and **Vacor**, the companies with the longest runtimes dominate - 57 and 96(!!!) years, respectively. Being in the UK, things like Wisplers and Sparklers are fairly common too.

I hope other newbie collectors find this encouraging, especially those in Europe! I'm super happy with the range I've found so far!

I mainly buy mixed lots, which keeps the price low:

- my average price per marble is 19p, with a range between 0 (e.g. found) and £2.38 (new Czech bullet mould marbles - most of the cost was shipping!)

- I include shipping in my calculations, which is a little unfair for some smaller lots, but it averages out ok!

Photo panels:

2: Vitro Trilite, Akro Slag, Handmade Maypole, Duck Mushroom

4: frosted Michelangelo 3rd generation, Camoflage, Morgan, Sun

6: mystery WV swirl, Vitro Yellow Jacket, Akro Patch, Peltier Rainbo

8: Handmade Josephs Coat, Euro Sparkler (flat style), German striped transparent slag, Wispler

10: suspected Seike/Duck cats-eye/slag, Seike/Duck unclassified, Seike/Duck Half N Half, Yasuda Transitional

My next post will be on colour, size, and/or UV reactivity... Maybe with a panel on cats eyes, but that's gonna take a bit of time to whip into shape 😅 Do let me know if you have a preference!

AI disclaimer: This time, I used AI primarily to help create Google Sheets formulas for summary table. I also used AI to take the data from these summary tables and create python script to output high quality images (the ones on my last post were embarrassing). All done on mobile device as I spend too long at work in front of an actual computer.

A few more for ID check!

1. Pretty sure this is Vitro and thinking it could be a Trilite

2. Curious one but settling on JABO based on the colour combo and glass quality

3. Peltier Rainbo? Or something else?

4. I thought this might also be a squished Peltier Rainbo where the ribbons ended up more like a patch

5. I think this might be a Seike/Duck experimental swirl but would love any other thoughts. Seems to include half and half-like blond in addition to more swirly bits

6. My latest German handmade and first Maypole type! Nearly a peewee

Appreciate any and all input as always!

Thank you!

Today I'd like to share some Japanese marbles - these were made by the Seike company, also known as the Duck Marbles company.

User Shiro Aiko has made some amazingly detailed posts on Marble Connection, sharing photos of marbles with known provenance to the company. It's so cool that this new info is still being uncovered even in the last year! 🥰

The first 2 pics show Half and Half marbles, which I think of a 'Fat Patches' - the opaque white patch is thick, not a veneer, and you can see it through the clear base.

The rest show Mushroom marbles - these are all 'thin stem' examples (some have a fat stem, looking more like an Eringi mushroom, but I haven't fully confirmed any of those yet).

They come in both clear/opaque, and fully opaque versions.

When I found my first Mushrooms, I thought they might be Vitro Helmets at first! They have a similar appearance, tho they don't have the different coloured 'face' like a true Helmet!

I have a few patches I'd like help with - unsure if they are Master, Akro, Peltier, Vitro, or something else entirely!

1. Possibly Master from the patch edges - love the colour combo

2. Seam makes me think Vitro but it's very different to a Victory in terms of coverage

3. The subtle stripes in the patch have got me curious

4. Could this be a weird Vitro?? The 'ghost' v patch opposite the white is super interesting!

5. Very opaque white patch

6. Similar to 5 but the quality of the white and base glass seems better

Would love any thoughts or input!

Thanks for your time!

I've been looking through the guides and can't find anything quite like these 2

The first I'm pretty confident is Vitro, the second could be Akro but I'm also getting Vitro vibes from the curve of the seam!

Apologies for having the seams flipped between images 😅

Appreciate any and all input, as always - thank you!

Been sorting striped transparent marbles recently and would love any additional input!

1-5 are presumed German but they range quite substantially in glass quality, with 1-3 looking 'cleaner' (I don't think it's just condition)

6 I *think* is an Akro slag, as it doesn't seem quite as feathery as I'd expect from Peltier

A few from a recent lot that I'm particularly curious about

1. Could this be a lazy Akro corkscrew, or 'just' a very basic WV swirl?

2. Peltier Peerless Patch! Possibly a little more unusual due to 2-tone patch and base colour

3. Gorgeous Akro Patch! Is this a multicolour patch or do Akro patches not really have many special names?

It's been a year since I found a marble on a local beach, stumbled into a load of marble subreddits, and fell head first down the rabbit hole.

Here is the first of a series of posts where I share what I have catalogued so far. Everything identified was with the help of this sub and the resources it has pointed me towards ♥️*

I'm based in the UK, and most of my lots have come from eBay, with smaller numbers found in antique shops or wild on the beach.

This post captures how many marbles I have found, sorted by type and likely origin. A few caveats:

- I manually 'check in' marbles into a Google sheet, and over time, have stopped measuring every single cats eye, so many are based on groups e.g. '27 red cats eyes'

- For most clearies, solids, and cats eyes, identification is hard; I probably could assign much of them to 'Asia - Generic', but trying to base that on data rather than exclusion!

- 'Identified' means I have some confidence in origin, maker, or type, but there's always more to learn...

- if a lot included multiple marbles of the same type and size, they were included in the same catalogue entry

Happy to answer any questions

The next posts will focus on makers, size, and colour.

Other data points collected include: UV reaction, bubbles/fizz, price per marbles (including postage costs, so a bit of an overestimation) and number of colours in the main design. Not decided the order yet - happy to take requests!

*I confess I am a little behind (having lots that I have washed but not yet catalogued), but if I wait til I'm done with those, I'll never make this post 😅

AI disclaimer: I used AI to generate and edit the charts, to double check my own spreadsheet calculations, and to tidy up data artifacts due to manual entry. Beyond the occasional squiz on Google Lens to help point me at relevant forum posts, I do not use AI to support identification of marbles.

Recent buy that I haven't even washed yet - too curious to know if anyone recognises the colour combo as it seems quite distinctive!

Bit damaged but a keeper