spara50 Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Recently found this 1923 Science de Voyages paper from France. It has a nice article on making what I think are clay marbles. I have translated the captions next to the images using Google translate. I haven't had time to do the entire article. Top Picture of Woman Ball sorting before staining. Forced to spend in a cramped hallway that their household is, the ball crooked or missing fragment which are eliminated by hand prior to color. Bottom Picture of Equipment The coloring of the balls Placed on the lower tray, the balls will be rolled at high speed by the upper plate in contact with a mixture of sulfur and aniline color that penetrates the stone. Page 2 Top Picture Overview of a workshop producing Ball On the left, the workbook automatically stone cubes. In the center, rolling plateaus in transforming these cubes spheres. Right, the coloring device. Center Picture The classification of cubes. By hopper fed the shovel, the cubes get into the cylinder openwork holes whose diameter gradually increases until the output. Progressing thanks to the rotary motion of the cylinder, the cubes of the cross as it comes in or the size of the holes permits. Each box therefore does not receive as cubes of same dimensions. Bottom Picture The breaking of cubic blocks. The picture shows the typical shape of the double hammer with which, thanks to a large tart eye and wrist, the worker shall debit the blocks into small cubes about 2 inches square. Top Picture Counting before packaging. Of plateaus, twenty parallel lines, are ten row are housed quickly pours ball loose on them. The other slide at the slightest movement, and thus obtained, in less time than it takes to say, two hundred balls counted in any security. Feel free to translate the rest if you want to! Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Thanks for sharing - maybe one of the translator programs will help. Is there a way to get text "copied" from a JPEG? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Great article. You threw me in where you mentioned clay in your open. You mention stone later. Are you seeing both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtee0 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 thanks for sharing. fatso likes the machinery..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted April 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Not really sure about the clay. The translation is very sketchy. Buy it does look like they are working on stone, and usually stone cubes are ground into round shapes. Maybe the coloring is dyed agates or stones? Not sure, wish I could get a more accurate translation. I might try to scan the document into one of my form programs which will let me copy and paste it to translate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 I've read,they've made "billes des pierre" thats a stone marble. Clay marbles are called "billes en terre. winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Interesting article; thanks for posting. It's referenced, along with dozens of other papers, in "Colonial Period and Early 19th-Century Children's Toy Marbles" by Richard Gartley and Jeff Carskadden. Any list member interested in this subject should have a copy of this book. Available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0962693189 or send me $25 via paypal and I'll send you a copy post-paid. (plus extra postage to outside the USA) [email protected] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted April 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Hansel, do they reference it for any certain topic? Clays, agates, etc.? I need to look and see if I have that book or not. Thanks, Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Craig, References are mentioned in the text and then listed alphabetically at the end of the book. A cursory search failed to find the reference in the text, but the article describes the well documented method of making limestone marbles and dyeing them with colored powder and sulphur. Bert Cohen once had me smell the sulphur in a small bag of colored limestone marbles he obtained from Germany. Hansel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Thanks Hansel, makes sense here. It looks like that is exactly what they are doing. Wow, sulpher smell, that would have been an awful place to work! Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godown Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 This article is from an Australian News paper 1927 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedidoll Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 how interesting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Nice bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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