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Steph is correct about Alley Agate making dishes. I own a set of them that I received when I was about 6 years old. Alley made small glass animals too. Fenton marbles weren't made by Fenton. they were made with Fenton cullet. I once bought marbles at Pilgrim Glass. JABO used Pilgrim cullet and made marbles with it and Pilgrim stocked them and sold them in their gift shop. Still have those too. Peltier made other things too, not just marbles. I have some advertising paperweights they made and I have a couple of toothpick holders. Back in the 90's I bought a "fireball" made by Peltier. It's a two piece votive candle holder shaped almost completely round. I don't think it's very old, probably made early 90's or late 80's. Lots of decorative glass came out of Kokomo. Edna

by the way, you're not the first self imposed banning. LOL! I banned myself from posting at Land of Marbles. Haven't posted over there in a very long time. Edna

Get over it.

I've been gone all day. What happened? I know you and I respect you and I enjoy your posts. PM me if you don't want to post. Edna

They are called "fancy tigereyes" and they are hard to find. Edna

Where have you been? I haven't seen you post a marble in forever. Of course, I haven't been hanging out at Glass Addiction. Guess you've been there. Edna

Second row from the top are vitro beach balls. The first one I ever found is the 5th one over. I kept it because I thought it looked like the shape of Texas. Edna

My cosmic rainbows. I have 2 shooters also. Edna

Great post! Hope you don't get into trouble for it. See you soon and thanks for the marbles. Edna

Thank you Bob, Wallace was the name I was looking for and I found Spencer had done the same thing; so that's three with the same idea. Edna

I hope Jim King really does have a book ready. weldon and I will be buyers. Edna

Bo, I'm sorry. I wasn't talking about you arguing. Did you feel guilty? LOL! there's a disagreement going on between two bull headed people and it's been going on a long time. They have been nit picking for a long time and I don't want to name them. They know who they are. Edna

Thanks, I'll try to remember that. I still don't know which turn to make though. LOL. I guess it's debatable and I don't like arguing for the sake of arguing. Edna

It bothered me that I couldn't remember the other scientist's name, so I did some research. It was Herbert Spencer who independently came up with the same idea that Charles Darwin did. In fact, Spencer was the first to use the term "survival of the fittest". Darwin published and Spencer did not. Darwin got credit for the idea. It seems that someone else was thinking about making marbles and maybe had been thinking about it for a long time. However, Steve Sturtz met with David McCullough and Joanne Argabrite and suggested that they "timeshare" the machines. Steve got credit for the idea. Unsolicited, David McCullough sent a letter of provenance and asked Bocci to post it on his board. David thought the letter would settle the discussion, but it didn't. A letter from Dave McCullough concerning the 2008 private runs... Ant Just so you have the story right on the 2008 experimental I felt that you should have the first post . Joanne Argabrite, Steve Sturtz and myself ( Dave McCullough) had a meeting concerning Mike Johnson and Steve Sturtz's book on Jabo in late 2007. Jabo had already decided that due to the economics of producing Classics that the Company would not be making any in 2008. Mr Sturtz mentioned the possibility of time sharing the machines with investors putting up the cost of runs. This was the beginning of the 2008 experimental runs. The rest is documented history now with the last experimental run being done, as agreed to earlier in the year, with the group of investors that has been mentioned. I hope all have had some joy out of being a part of Marble History and once Jabo has a chance to decide the future of the Classics I will let you know. At this time there will be no more contract runs. Jabo is in the process of looking into a 24hr. run of each 5/8" 3/4" and 1" Classics for 2009 and would hope to sell them from the Co. through a group of sales persons who had invested in the 2008 experimentals. Hope this might help to understand the process Jabo has been going through. I would like to thank ALL the investors for the great times I have had in producing these runs and Hope that all has some good memories. Thank You Dave Dave had hoped his letter would settle once and for all who started the runs. Instead, it caused some people to make up more lies because their feelings are hurt? they are jealous? they want credit? they are greedy? I don't know the reason. All is speculation on that matter. I am speaking only for myself now. I am tired of the whole mess. Lies about Steve stealing marbles, stealing a collection, and now threats to expose stealing something else. Several people have had to apologize for their lies, but some still believe the lies. Steve's reputation has been forever tarnished because of the lies that slowly over time have all been proven wrong. It is sickening to me! The fact is that Steve acted on his idea. He got credit for the idea. Steve did not know anybody else was having the same idea, but Steve is attacked for it. None of the lies belonged on the chatboards, but I'm afraid we are about to see more of the same. How much does one person deserve? The people who are telling the lies don't even have the guts to do it under their own name. How cowardly is that? I do have to respect Galen Wilcox because he did make the accusations under his own name, even though they turned out to be false. I am certain that somebody told Galen some lies that he believed and acted on. It's all very sad to me. The "why" of the attacks is puzzlling to me. Is it greed, avarice, jealousy, or something else? We may never know, but I do know I'm tired of it. Stop the email attacks and threats on Steve. They won't work and may result in court action if they continue. Libel is serious. Marbles used to be fun. This is not fun. We used to all enjoy talking to each other on the chat boards and in the chat room. I don't enjoy that any more. People who post feel that they always have to be careful and cover their backs. By the way, this post has also been unsolicited. I hope I haven't hurt my friends. If the chat board isn't fun, people don't come back. Is that why we've lost so many of the people who used to hang out here and have fun here? I never remember attacks like these recent happenings going on before. I want marbles and talking about marbles to be fun again. Can we make that happen? Edna

Let's see now, which primary colors does one mix to achieve brown? And where does red lie in relation to those primary colors? Heck I don't know. I know you weren't asking me Bo, but I'd be lost. Probably wouldn't head any direction. LOL Edna

This happens a lot. It happened in my field of study more than once. I do remember that Charles Darwin and another fellow were studying the same sorts of things and arrived at the idea of "natural selection" independently. Darwin published his idea not knowing that someone else had come up with the same idea. Today, Darwin is known for having that bright idea and I can't remember the name of the other fellow. Having the idea and acting on it are both important. Probably very few people can recall the other scientists name. Edna

I just don't get it. Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't get it. I love oxblood. I know oxblood when I see it. I don't care to know all the details that keep getting "hashed over" in this thread. It seems to be that people are disagreeing just to disagree when they really agree on more than they disagree on. Does that make sense? I just don't care to know all the details and fine points of oxblood. As to color, the Last Dance run got some funny oxblood colors. For example, the colonel has magenta oxblood. David McCullough knows what went into that glass and he says it's oxblood. Hardcore has purple oxblood. Both those marbles are gorgeous. I don't care to argue about the color, the ingredients, the chemistry of the thing, the atmospheric conditions. I know it's oxblood. Debating is not my idea of fun. Friends get lost when nit picking goes on and on and on. Let's talk about something else. I don't think this thread is going anywhere that is positive and I'm sure not learning anything from the negative. Edna

Marie, you googled up Steve Sturtz and no, he hasn't done anything wrong. Someone else has though. Newlondonoh sent him the email and signed it Billy. His name is really Rick Hall. It was a cheap shot at Steve. Edna

My Joseph loved the children in a candy store part. He read it and when his mother came home he asked her to read it. Remember that piece of writing "Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"? That's when most people learned to practice that concept and perfect it. Joseph got it. I bet Lou's 10 year old got it too. Edna

I think others do see it. I think "others" don't want to stir the pot. Edna

I spent some time with Ellen and her friend Cole while we were in Ohio and I heard first hand their thoughts on the JABO's we had just made. Both of them were thrilled to see the Friendship marbles and I understand her writing "pretty enough to be a JABO". Edna

Griff, I hope you do get a group together. You could make some pretty marbles. I too am burned out. It seems to me I've been making marbles, sorting marbles, making boxes, or traveling to Reno since September. Little League Baseball (2 practices and 2 games) each week is getting me down. I need a break. The nice thing about going to Vienna is that I won't be bringing work home to do for the next 2 months. Go for it! Edna

I saw two handsome mibsters on that page. Edna

Those big ones don't taste too good. They are really fatty. Best to eat the little guys. Edna

I like those too. Could I send you some of our flat ones so they are "our marbles"? Edna