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West Virginia Swirl?

I bought a $40 jar of marbles and I think I did okay because I like them. I also think most are vintage American made. What do you think?!

u/Feeling_Turnip_1273 — 20 hours ago

When UV reveals a surprise

What looks like a simple caged cats eye gets a lot more exciting under 365nm UV light!

u/peardr0p — 3 days ago
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Help me identify patches + swirls

I’m looking for some help identifying a big batch of marbles I bought, these are ones that caught my eye the most. All glow under UV. Each marble has 3 images taken of it.

1st Marble: Patch, images include the seams. Super unique opaque teal color. 5/8ths of an inch.

2nd Marble: Swirl, unsure if I was able to capture the seams or not. 5/8ths of an inch.

3rd Marble: Patch, images include seams. Reminds me of how some Master marbles are made. 43/64ths of an inch.

4th Marble: Patch, images include seams. 5/8ths of an inch.

5th Marble: Patch? (I think). Images include seams. The semi opaque green with red was really striking to me. 19/32nds of an inch.

u/CitrusGoddess — 4 days ago

No clue on these!

I've seen these before I think, but I just cant find a reference no, so I'm sure people here might know who and what these are...... i see the striped band on both inside and outside of the marble so I'd lean more to some sort of transparent swirl (or corkscrew)?

u/tibsmoker — 5 days ago

What did Helvedica get in the Mail Today?

This cool contemporary Guinea! Hard to see but it has Lutz flakes in it

u/Helvedica — 6 days ago

More patches!

the green on the right is a vitro victory but im having serious doubts about the other three. The blue one has the V shape seam of the Master marbles but I cant say for sure...

Any help is much appreciated.

u/No-Beginning-7136 — 6 days ago

Thought these were vitro victory but...

Got about 100 of these in a single lot and was wondering if they could be vitro victory.

They have transparent base, solid color patch (even though some red ones have only a very thin layer patch) and the colors do check even if the red is more on the orange side.

Second picture shows a streak of brown on the white patch and third picture is possibly a hybrid of sorts.

Or maybe they could be some sort of asian patch...

what do you think?

u/No-Beginning-7136 — 8 days ago
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ID help please

Marble is standard player size, shown under filtered 365 UV. I don't believe the green threads are uranium because they don't glow under 395. Any help as much appreciated!

u/DaDirgensfish — 7 days ago

Seems I have issues with seams.....

Seams on marbles from left to right:

1 - ( (

2 - ( )

3 - ) (

4 - ) I

5 - I < ?

I'm going to go Marble King blended Rainbow since I've seen this lavender color but usually its a ribbon all the way around not just one patch. 2nd would be Vitro then 3rd Master. Thoughts?

u/tibsmoker — 8 days ago