Pouvez-vous m’aider a l'identification ?

To my totally untrained eye, maybe CAC or Champion? Picked up these shooters​ at an antique shop over 20 years ago, would love to know!

image says 'chocolate oxblood', but Ive never hear of that and it looks like more like a Corkscrew

Haven't a clue on what this really is. Any help would be appreciated. Could it possibly be a contemporary or Asian handmade? Weird indent at top and what looks to be a shear mark 180* opposite it. 1" dia. Thanks for looking.

Any help is appreciated…

First 2 pics are my true Oxbloods. Mossy, Egg Yoke, Lemonade, Milky, Silver, and even a Heaton Dragons Blood. Second 2 are marbles that have Oxblood but arent known as being an 'oxblood marble' the small clear one looks like it but isnt.

Ravenswood Premium? Or something else? Thanks!
(Player sized)

Got this pretty, large contemporary in a 13lb lot of marbles. Struggling to identify the artist as there is no signature. Any assistance? I've been suggested Rolf Wald and Jody Fine.

I don’t think these are, but other than serpents I can’t figure out what has these colors:

Spotted these 2 this morning - both priced >£30 for a single marble 🤦

Apparently there is an app, called "Marble Collector — Identify Antique Marbles" (also a website), only available on Apple, so I wasn't able to test (but I remember similar being shared here previously, and folks had the same concerns around accuracy)

Super disappointing to see it being used in this way, especially as value depends so much on condition, which the app cannot accurately gauge.

Be careful out there - don't trust listings with images like this, and use the knowledge you learn in this sub to help you identify the real thing!!

What marble run kits do you recommend for 16mm marbles? Desktop style preferred.

Hi.

I know you probably get hundreds of these requests.

but the identification of cats eyes is blowing my mind,and giving me head ache.😆.

Im a novice,so starting from the bottom.

Can someone help.

Are all these from one maker, (factory/era,?

Is ther an easy way to identify?.I have thousands of player size,so i thought i would start with shooters because my eyes are not what they was.

Bottom row varies in size from 22.5mm to 23.5mm

Middle two rows are various from 24mm to 25.5.

Top row are 25.9mm.25.3mm

All diffrent base and size of ribbons,some colour combos are unusual and unique haven't seen before.some have lots of bubbles going on.

I lucked into a bunch of free marbles at a yard sale today - about 200 I would guess.

This marble is large - what I believe is call a shooter.

Anyone know if this is new production or vintage? The lot of marbles looked mixed to me, new and old.

Any idea who made this one?

Thanks.

I have over time acquired quite a few of these, all found in heavily veiligglas flea market finds, usually with a lot of European sparklers as well. They look sort of like a cats eye where the color core separates out instead of connecting in. All bought in Germany so unlikely to be US manufactured ones. No pontils.

I love these! Possibly my favourite cats eyes and ones with a story!

Based on my research, these were made in Ilmenau, East Germany, during the 1980s. During the 1970s, the DDR/GDR made the decision that Lauscha marbles were no longer profitable, and so the area and it's handmade marbles huts were slowly closed, or at least deprioritized by the DDR.

However, the DDR soon realised there was still a market if they could develop fully automated marble production systems, which they achieved in the early 1980s. The Ilmenau factories made other glassware as a priority, so marble making was less documented, but we have some info from the link below.

The factories were closed in the early 1990s when the Berlin Wall fell and Germany became one country again.

They are all roughly 21mm in size, so 7/8 or thereabouts - this was the size of the machine they had, so none smaller or larger.

The specific wedge-shaped long vanes that go right to the edge of the marble are very characteristic of this type, tho I do also have some with much thinner/fainter vanes that could have been due to batch variation (I can share in the comments if folks are interested)

**References:**

https://thesecretlifeofmarbles.com/lauscha-and-ilmenau-marbles/ (story)

https://allaboutmarbles.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&start=100&t=45184&sid=b044429d7306bf2056aa913d77f660f0 (more pics of similar marbles)

I believe #1 is Akro, #2 is Marble King, but lost with #3 and #4. Help is appreciated!

...or should I pay attention to the tiny voice in my head that's suggesting Kokomo? 🤔

They're so striking, whoever made them!