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[Carolina Tom]

Hey Cheese! Hope you are doing well sir. Thanks from your expertise.

While at the park hunting for bottle caps with my metal detector, I was very successful incidentally, I spotted this marble. I got this in situ picture, before the harvest.



I believe it is an Alley from the 1940s. I only say that because I found one just like this one, and that’s the ID you gave me.





Thanks for looking!

 

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[villagenut]

Tom, you are finding lots of marbles.Keep this up and you will be a guru of marbles.....like cheese

 

[cheese]

Cool! It's an oldie but I can't say for certain who made it. West Virginia swirls can be very difficult or even impossible to differentiate sometimes. The first picture has some transparent orange in a kind of squished up pattern that makes me think it was more likely made by Heaton. The other photos fall in line with heaton too but don't necessarily suggest it. That's what I would label it as though.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Cool! It's an oldie but I can't say for certain who made it. West Virginia swirls can be very difficult or even impossible to differentiate sometimes. The first picture has some transparent orange in a kind of squished up pattern that makes me think it was more likely made by Heaton. The other photos fall in line with heaton too but don't necessarily suggest it. That's what I would label it as though.

Thanks Cheese. We appreciate your time and help.

I read the “sticky” thread. These marbles are a lot more complicated than the casual observer realizes.

 

[Rookster]

Tom, i believe you are correct on the age.Congrats

 

[against the wind]

Real pretty marble Tom, you keep this up and you'll have more marbles than you started out with , lol.
Congratulations

 

[cheese]

I re-read this today and I see that last night I mis-understood the post. I see now that the lower 4 photos are all the same marble and none are of the marble shown in situ, right? If so, it may be Alley. The 4-photo marble I iDed as Alley a while back is either an Alley or Heaton IMO... some views look alley, some heaton. The marble in situ is likely also alley just from the one view but other views might lend more clues that say differently.

 

[Carolina Tom]

I re-read this today and I see that last night I mis-understood the post. I see now that the lower 4 photos are all the same marble and none are of the marble shown in situ, right? If so, it may be Alley. The 4-photo marble I iDed as Alley a while back is either an Alley or Heaton IMO... some views look alley, some heaton. The marble in situ is likely also alley just from the one view but other views might lend more clues that say differently.

It’s just one marble. In situ and 4 shots are all of the same marble.

I’m glad to see this is difficult for you, because it absolutely baffles me!

 

[cheese]

Ones like this can be very difficult. Some are very easy but all of the swirl makers made red on white and even in light of that, some are still easy to identify by seeing how the glass flowed, the cutoff of the stream, striations in the glass, etc... Some, however, have no traits at all or traits of more than one maker, and then it can be impossible to know for sure who made them. Sometimes we have to just narrow it down to two makers and be content with that. That only happens with a small percentage of marbles though.