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Thanks for this info. I've see the patent drawing of the cup and rod set in its mechanism. Now I have a clear picture in my mind of the process. I like knowing the who, what, when, and why. Maybe some day I won't care, but by then I'll know what it is I don't care about.

Yummmm

I can only join you in :Emoticon-jawdrop: ....OMG I've got it on my watch list so I can check out the sniper action in the last seconds.

Hello Al, was just thinking about you. Thanks....I'll take a look in that direction.

Can anyone tell me what the one to the left of the moonie is called???

Thanks for showing those beauties. I've never seen anything like most of them. Hope you don't mind that I snagged some for my reference file.

I had to go look it up, but this is what I found.... "A semi-translucent, opalescent white or pale light blue hand-gathered, machine-made marble, with an interesting soft luster." Ref: Akron Marble Website.

I've found several that floresce. I add them to my vaseline glass collection that stays under blacklites. What I really wanted to ask, tho, is what do you call the one to the left of the moonie. I think I have one like it.

That's a pretty cool lamp.

Very nice cabinet displays. Really like the one in the 4th shot. Your boxes are very attractive. Cool lamp.

I love the "Priority" shipping at $3.00. (sorry, I nit pick) What is double ingot??

For the benefit of the new guy can you offer more information??

During World War II, engineers perfected the little glass balls to such a degree that they could be substituted for steel bearings. Tons of these glass balls go to lithographers and engravers, to be used in smoothing the surface of copper printing plates. In the oil fields, refineries use acid-proof marbles as filters and condensers. The glass balls are injected into old oil wells to prepare them for possible further use. Consequently, millions of dollars worth of oil can now be recovered. Some fish hatcheries put marbles in the bottom of pools for better results at spawning. Paper mills use glass balls in manufacturing. Recently has it been found out that marbles are, highly useful in the spinning of glass thread. Some time in 1948, a telegram from Johannesburg, South Africa, reached a marble manufacturing factory in the US requesting a shipment of 100,000 marbles in "three-colour strip combinations on opalescent glass." They were to be used as currency, but were captured by warring tribes. The mibs had to be re-minted. (I've been reading a lot of marble articles) ;-)

:Happy_457: Roll all donations right out this way, Amy. :Happy_050:

Yup, information overload these days. The cell phone thing.....With one in their ear continually people have no time alone for their own thoughts.

I meant to post this link in my last. (hope I did it correctly) http://www.akronmarbles.com/us_marble_patents.htm

I found this interesting. Having a newly aquired appreciation of marbles I had to start with how they were made. I find machinery pretty interesting as a testament to imagination.