akronmarbles

Awesome....

I listed this group for sale on my website - here's the link: Brian's marbles for sale...

Here's a few more new pavers from the furnace.

Yes - this is Brian Graham - I may try to list some on fleabay but work has me very busy as of late.

I finally had some free time to make a few marbles again - these were made yesterday - smallest is 3/4" in size.

The Summit County company is the Standard Toy Marble company. I have parts of the plaster shaping blocks they refer to.

Thanks all... I like the fact that they are played with as well. I don't like putting any products on marbles to make them appear more pristine - most coatings seem to have a limited shelf life to them anyways. Not worth messing with in my opinion.

Just picked up this small one last week - it measures 1.5" - the largest is just shy of 2". I'm always buying marbles like these if anyone has any for sale....

Every email spambot will see this email address as well........

Looks like you could kill some brain cells with that...

Thanks...

I know of a factory site in Akron where industrial mill balls were manufactured. Could even be the actual source of the Atlanta Porcelains. There are literally 100,000's of these things at one location. All you need is a truck, 5-gallon buckets, sharpies, or a kiln, and you would have a small fortune. If anyone would like to get in on this deal, just let me know.......I'm kidding of course. To someone else though, this is the equivalent to a winning lottery ticket.

I will say that from the 'flip side' image you show - the color pattern for the brown does look odd on a few of them. Other than that, the way the first photo is presented still looks dead on.

Scary. Those look exactly like the real deal. Not hard to believe though when you think about the technology. It's not the most difficult process to replicate. I remember the eagle one now - I always thought that was a fake.

Those are vintage Steph. They come in many flavors. Some of the ones Alan sold are actually rare and not common to find in the wild. The first ones you showed are more commonly found and represent the range of variation on these.

A "9" or a "6" pattern is resultant from rotation of the gather - this is not even dependant upon handedness of the gatherer - right or left handed, it's all about how the punty rod was spun.

Nice site - thanks for pointing it out Steph.

Here's my favorite orange marble. It is a MFC test marble that was made about 1900. As far as I can tell, it is the oldest documented machine made marble in existence. Sorry for the photo quality.

I think there are great deals on fleabay right now. I will agree that the number of auctions is down and that there is a lack of killer textbook examples being sold but still hidden treasures nonetheless. There have been tons of groups of handmades lately that I think sold quite reasonably.

To me that just looks like a messed up cat.

They were referred to as "twenty five patch oxbloods" - I thought I had a photo, but can't seem to find it. A quick email with a reference librarian at the New York public library would definitely fill in any missing or questionable words - I bet they would do it over the phone for you. Having the month, year, and page number really helps in this case.

Bob Block sold a box back in 1998 that was an award for perfect attendance in November of 1930 - there was a certificate stating so.

The Albright bag would have been filled with some type of early gob fed marble - not hand gathered at that price.

The rubber mill is the Rosenthal Company -they manufactured pencil erasers among other things.

As a business man - I would agree with the last post 100%.