Peltier Glass Company Blue Transparent Rainbo Marble 19/32 inch

This is a transparent blue Rainbo marble made by the Peltier Glass Company. The name Rainbo comes from the name of the marble line on the original packaging. Peltier made toy marbles from the 1920s to 1950s, but the Rainbo line was made mostly made in the 1940s and 1950s. Rainbos are identified by their "baseball" pattern with two ribbons around the equator of the marble. This marble, with white bands on a transparent blue bubbly glass is an uncommon but collectible variant. It is 19/32 inch or a tad under the typical game marble size of 5/8 inch. This example has little evidence of use, but does have two "blow holes,", which occur when the glass breaks when an air bubble is very close to the surface of the marble (visible in the photographs. The marble also has a number of tiny air bubble dimples. Overall it grades to about Near Mint.