Original Boxes And Bags Please

[hdesousa]

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Hansel, in that last box -- is that yellow as bright as it seems in the pic? Wow. Not sure I would have expected that from early Akro, much less MFC. Got to go back and find out when they started using cadmium as a yellow colorant. Unless one of you guys just knows, off the top of your head. I don't.

Ann, yes, they are bright yellow.

Also, I just remembered that George Sourlis wrote an article about that box:

http://www.joemarbles.com/3Marble%20Articles/George%20Sourlis/0005%205th%20Article%20Akro%27s%20Earlies%20Box.htm

Actually, eight of George's articles on original boxes can be found on Joe Street's website:

http://www.joemarbles.com/3Marble%20Articles/1Marble%20Articles%20Home%20Page.htm

[ann]

I'd forgotten about those -- I hadn't read the box ones, but his "The End of the Slag" made a light bulb go off in my head back when I first got into slags . . . got to go read the box ones now . . .

[ann]

OK, looks like cadmium was used as a glass colorant as early as the 1860s, so no issue with bright yellow (as opposed to pastel / "egg yolk" yellow or a darker mustard-y yellow) for MFC. That's earlier than my increasingly faltering memory remembered . . .

[lstmmrbls]

I believe yellow was one of MFCs colors and Brian dug some examples that were bright yellow at MFC

[BuckEye]

He did Galen, he was nice enough to give me a few of those pieces and the yellow is a spot on match. The purple ones in one of Hansels boxes look akro to me, I have a few pieces of the mfc version, the look different IMHO

[greg11]

50 cents, boy have time and money changed

[ann]

He did Galen, he was nice enough to give me a few of those pieces and the yellow is a spot on match. The purple ones in one of Hansels boxes look akro to me, I have a few pieces of the mfc version, the look different IMHO

The purple ones I have that were dug at the Akro site are a good bit darker than those in Hansel's box -- was there a fair variety in the Akro HG purple opaques? (I haven't seen enough of them to know.) Were any darker purple ones found at MFC, or were they all pastel?

I forgot you had some of those pieces/parts! Now I remember a pic of those bright yellow ones. Getting older and older . . .

[chucks_mibs]

Wow -- me neither. Do the solid-colored ones (the purples especially) look handgathered? That's the first box I've seen (not that I'm particularly knowledgeable about boxes -- I'm not) that looks like it might have some of those solid-colored hangathered Akros that I've only seen from digs. Nice!

P.S. The baby blue ones wouldn't be fluorescent, would they? (Holding breath)

Ann....here are 2 "MARBLES" that I used to own.....The first one I sold 6 years ago..was it you who bought either one of these from me?.......at the time I thought it was a Turq Persian.....It certainly appears to be very much hand gathered and it glowed under UV lighting.....

Here is the other one I sold 2 years ago ....it also glowed but had more of a greenish color....(imperial jade?).....Are these MFC, Akro, CAC or just plain ole game marbles?....any thoughts?

[clydetul62]

Bottom one is definetly Akro. Top I believe is Akro as well.

[jten]

Have not seen these pictured so far in the posts. I also have a question. Have you ever found some great mibs and put them in a special place, so you would be able to keep track of them and then could not find them? I finally found some nice peltier pearlized patches knew they were going into the display case put them aside and have not been able to find them

Jten

[Steph]

For some reason I can't open the thumbnails. Is it just me?

(Yes, I have a couple of special marbles somewhere that I look forward to finding again someday. )

[kbobam]

Was just signing out for the night and saw this.

I'm seeing the little thumbnail pictures, but

they're not going anywhere for me either.

[jten]

Finally got the thumbnail to work.

jten

[Steph]

[Stefan]

i don't know if they were sold originally like this but i like the box