Hello Willjo!
To identify a marble, unless it's a very obvious style, it takes views from several angles. Most particularly, the "seams". The seams are the places where the marble starts (the cut where the marble before it was sheared from the stream of glass) and the end where the stream of glass that comprises the marble was cut. On swirls, this isn't always that easy, but on patches and cateyes, it's at the ends of the colored ribbons. On the swirls, 3 or 4 views from different angles can tell the st
Your first marble is an obvious type, it's a swirl made by Alley at their St. Mary's site in the 40s or so. The next one could be an Alley too but more views are needed. The green one looks like it could be a vitro caged cateye or an akro snake, more pics needed. The red one looks like a cateye, the yellow does too I think, from the one pic. Maybe a Marble King cateye. Then the clearie for the last one that probably can't be attributed to any maker for lack of any identifiable features.
Marbles is a whole big universe of information and the deeper you dig, the more interesting it gets!
