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try this: http://craftsuppliesforless.com/kidscrafts...foamsheets.html or this: http://kwikcrafts.com/crafts/category/Foam-Sheets-2mm.html if this is the stuff you are looking for, it's called fun foam sheets and is made for crafting--there are pre-cut shapes available for kid's crafts. the sheets come in all colors and also comes in sticky-back. you should be able to find it at Joann Fabrics and Crafts or Michael's--i've even seen it at the dollar store--look in the kid's craft/toys section. Walmart carries it in the crafts/fabric section. one brand name: Darice Foamies sheets another: WonderFoam

didn't Albright distribute Christensen Agates too? also the ad above says "RAINBO" .... no W. just a thought.

thanks for sharing the journey, Griff. way better than a post-card!

here's more cats with aqua (counter clockwise from upper right) ... a bunch of Vitro 4-vaners (upper right) ... three Vitro 5-vaners upper left (hard to find in aqua) ... five 6-vaners beneath that are mostly cage-style...one possible Peltier or ?... three Euro-sparkler types ... a couple of unknowns with brown streaks... and one completely transparent unknown (could be Japanese or older MK ???) here's the transparent one--the transparent vanes totally fill the base glass...

here are my most aqua-ish foreign (or unknown) cats (no Vitros included here): and one with vane bubbles from the top, left of center:

zig, those are sweet, nice examples--especially that last group! thanks for sharing!

unknown foreigner...

here's another (more subtle-colored) one from the other side of the pond.

here's a Euro machine-made in aqua tones (not sure if it's German or English).

yeah, i am wondering which machines were not put to use (or rather, just didn't work very well, so they weren't used for long, at least). that 1927650 patent might seem late for slags, but SOMETHING was different about those feathery Pelt slags--and this patent sure sounds like it fits them. translucent might probably have been the word to mean "other than opaque" since transparent might have meant "clear" or "colorless". not sure i can really say many slag-type (onyx) marbles are truly transparent, at that. weren't slags single-stream marbles? with the glass colors mixed in the same tank--sometimes muddying up the design? it seems that is one of the results Peltier was trying to avoid with this invention. ya really gotta read these patents if you're going to understand what it is the pictures are all about. sometimes that can be very arduous, yup. here's a rich one to plod through--> 1828216.

one thing i've noted (or thought i thought) is that the picture marbles are a bit bigger than 5/8" which might add to why their patches are more or less rectangular compared to other Peerless Patches. and about the patent mentioning globby patches, it says: "In devices and methods when the gob, or suspended or mold charge is severed or cut-off at the flow or delivery port or opening of a melting tank, the striating material usually does not extend in the form of a line or narrow streak throughout the mass of the translucent vitreous or glass body, but is usually in the form of a more or less irregular spot or blotch at one side of the body of the finished object. If the outflowing molten mass can be drawn out or attenuated sufficiently, and then re-fused, before the suspended or mold charge is cut off, then the striating material may become distributed in the mass of the suspended or mold charge, so as to appear as a group of lines or streaks therein." (since this patent (1927650), which was filed in July of 1928, is talking about a translucent body glass, i don't think this technique was used for the patches, but instead for the slag or onyx types with a feathery appearance, in particular and at least initially.)

i think those bubbles are quite common in the aqua-color Japanese cats. something about that particular color...

i suppose this is the proper place to insert some old images of the set of Peltiers i won back in october of 05 from Pete’s Marbelous News giveaway on LOM. these were donated by none-other-than David Chamberlain...the Pink Champagne doesn’t look nearly as nice in these pics as it really is... here’s a couple of those green-patched marbles that have been perhaps MIS-identified as Novas (images shown here only to help confirm proper identification): the description of the first set was given as “This pair of more recent vintage measure 29/32” and 15/16” in diameter. Each has an opaque black base with one having translucent green patches with bits of unmelted sand...” the bottom one was described as “Nova. This one is known as an Eclipse. One of the hardest types of Novas to find. Opaque black base. Two narrow ribbons. One red, other very light green. These were a limited run in 1979...31/32”" if these black w/green patches aren't Peltiers, what then? they appear to be about the size of the Pink Champagnes (slightly smaller than the Novas and Rootbeer Floats). what think ye?

the 6-vane cross-through types called "beachballs" were made in Japan, according to the packaging they are found in. i think these are the earliest made cross-thru types of cats. i believe the white cross-thrus were also made in Japan--your avatar is an example (two colored V's on either side of a white crossing vane). there are some rare examples of the this type of cross-thru that have colored (non-white) crossing vanes. Marble King also some cross-throughs in 4-vane style--but they only had two colors and generally, there was some bleeding of color into the vanes. in the past all MK's cats with either 4 colors or the two color cross-thru types were called "St. Mary's" but I think at least one color combo was also made a Paden City--that would be the blue/yellow.

in reference to cat's-eyes, the term "beach ball" was used by Peterson and Castle in "Marbles: the Guide to Cat's-Eyes Marbles" on page 8 to refer to a particular cross type (or cross-through type) of cat's-eye marble: "Another extremely rare type, found in two original Wale's bags, was the three-color, six-vane, cross type. This cat's-eye had three lines each being a different color that crossed in the center of the marbles. Thus, each color line went straight through the marble and did not form the typical 'V' of colors next to each other. It had a beach ball pattern of alternative colors as you followed the color sequence around the marble." i personally do not consider the 4-color Marble King cats to be cross (or cross-through) types since there is no actual crossing of colors through the center. i supposed one could call the MK's 'beach balls,' but most real (air-filled) beach balls have more than four panels of color.

LOL, steph! saw this related post over on LOM a bit ago and asked the same kind of question!

neat marble(s), winnie...bumping this for more opinions. that slight green color reminds me of a Peltier color, i think...not really sure.

neat item, Craig. sure is weird that it says "12 New Assorted Colors in bag." but the picture shows (onyx) slags in a box of just 10 rows. do you think the marbles are original to the bag? if the marbles are original to the bag itself, that would make it a Chinese jobber bag--no? who jobbered Pelts in the States?

Jillian Spence has at least one on her page, but she calls them blue boys. i have some too--all dug, and Windy is right--they have a transparent base which is hard to see unless they're back-lit. here's Jillian's pic from her site at www.marblequeen.com, where she says "This is an experimental made between 1959 and 1964 but never marketed." as for the seller's other marbles, i would not call them what he does.

the purple does look sorta un-JABO-y, but that's just my opinion.

nice lookin stuff! thanks for sharing.

hmm--that says Akro produced 120 marbles a minute in 1941...that's 2 per second. how many machines would that be?

related? are "Benningtons" stoneware or clay-based?

sue, interesting about the canvas work surface--that would make sense. i have one bennie that has a LOT of eyes and they are all over it--must be a reason for them (will try to count the eyes when i get home tonight). anyways, the number of eyes made me think they might have been layered at some point in the process. more research: go steph!