Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Here we unpack and identify vintage Ravenswood Novelty glass marbles that were dug up and collected by David Tamulevich at the Ravenswood, W.V. dump site in the 1990’s.
We work with the best marbles from the 60,000 marbles that David accumulated. The nicknamed “Ravens” group is carefully examined here and we look at all of the variations found.
We sort and separate all models that are uniquely Ravenswood-made and identifiable to collectors, and discover a few types that may be new to collectors of the hobby.
Many of the Ravenswood marbles featured here are compared with similar Alley Agates, Champion Agates and other notable West Virginia swirl marbles companies. L.E. Alley from the Alley Agate Company first began producing marbles here, shortly before starting the Alley Agate company in the 1930’s, making some sorting and identifying rather challenging! We do our best to pick through them all.
A short clip explaining the “Solar Flare” marbles, now assigned to Champion Agate is also included.
The Ravenswood Novelty Company was active from 1928 to 1955 with two gaps in production and some ownership changes.
A great big “Thank you” to David T who lent these marbles to me so I could study and film- for over a two-year time frame! 🟠
Thank you for watching!
Please like, subscribe and share with your fellow marble collecting friends, it really helps the channel!
Happy marble collecting!
Here we unpack and identify vintage Ravenswood Novelty glass marbles that were dug up and collected by David Tamulevich at the Ravenswood, W.V. dump site in the 1990’s.
We work with the best marbles from the 60,000 marbles that David accumulated. The nicknamed “Ravens” group is carefully examined here and we look at all of the variations found.
We sort and separate all models that are uniquely Ravenswood-made and identifiable to collectors, and discover a few types that may be new to collectors of the hobby.
Many of the Ravenswood marbles featured here are compared with similar Alley Agates, Champion Agates and other notable West Virginia swirl marbles companies. L.E. Alley from the Alley Agate Company first began producing marbles here, shortly before starting the Alley Agate company in the 1930’s, making some sorting and identifying rather challenging! We do our best to pick through them all.
A short clip explaining the “Solar Flare” marbles, now assigned to Champion Agate is also included.
The Ravenswood Novelty Company was active from 1928 to 1955 with two gaps in production and some ownership changes.
A great big “Thank you” to David T who lent these marbles to me so I could study and film- for over a two-year time frame! 🟠
Thank you for watching!
Please like, subscribe and share with your fellow marble collecting friends, it really helps the channel!
Happy marble collecting!
