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1 hour ago, Steph said:

591 pages? Oh my!  

Interrupting my marble history geek-out to marvel at how many millions (billions? zillions?) of books there must be like this for all the court cases in our litigious history.  Something I never thought about before.

 

Thought the same, and how lucky we are that folk were so litigious because we get these great depositions with raw history!

It says incomplete and at some point around page 447 it skips to somewhere in the 500s, so I imagine there are other gaps throughout.

Contains depositions with terrific descriptions of marble making, etc. PDF is attached. Images are just sample excerpts.

Edit: I have also included a separate document containing plaintiff exhibits in color. Hopefully more such documents will surface. These documents are from the University of Illinois-Urbana and scanned by Google, so it's possible the university has others.

Peltier_Glass_Company_V_Akro_Agate_Company_court of appeals transcript.pdf

plaintiff exhibits Peltier_Glass_Company_V_Akro_Agate_Co-1926.pdf

On 10/12/2024 at 4:21 PM, Fire1981 said:

BT was an amazing Marble Guru. He shared pics of VVVVHTF marbles. I’m not kidding. He also made marbles. Does anyone know if he’s still with us🔥

RAR

I found this on Facebook:

Think he had a website way back when. I saved some pictures from it. Can't remember what it was called though so I can't look it up on the Internet Archive.

EDIT: Apparently rumors of Bill Tow's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Here's AI's vision of toy marbles found in King Tut's tomb.

The Mojo Elvis one is perfect. That seems like a marble Elvis would dig.

Locking this thread as it has wandered off topic into the squabble zone, but we do have a Squabble Zone area if someone wants to start a new thread there.

Bummed to miss this as I am leaving Vegas after a conference the afternoon of the 23rd.

(all credit goes to artificial intelligence)

On 6/13/2024 at 9:33 AM, Steph said:

@bumblebee are there any profile pic uploading issues which have come to your attention?  Or any tech advice? 



William, I haven't learned much about editing photos on phones.   Maybe someone else will see this and have helpful advice.  

But in the meantime if you want to post the image here or message me then I can get it to your profile.  


 

The max dimensions were 200px, but max size 100kb. So it's probable the maximum dimension issue. I upped that to 300px to see if that helps. @William

Renewed my local Craiglist wanted ad and within a couple of days scored this really nice yellow(amber?) lutz with only a few flea bites. I think it's about 0.79".

I rarely find handmades so always a treat.

First show I ever went to. Sure miss it but I'm in -20 degrees in Montana now where marbles are scarcer than sunlight. 😆

Here's a photo of the bag of them the original eBay seller showed me.

His link is safe but his SSL security certificate expired and is no longer valid. He needs to renew it and install the new one.

That 2nd one! 🌶️

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

35 minutes ago, B-rett66 said:

   ‘Twas  the week before Christmas and all was quite calm, I got a cool package. Is it from Mom. I in my blue jeans just sitting alone hear footsteps out front, I think it’s a gnome. He came with the flash. He must’ve been busy. I don’t see his reindeer. What is he crazy? Suddenly I see him his sleigh is all white. I’m really surprised it’s not even night. His clothes were all blue and he carried a bag. No toys did I see not even a hat? He said, not a word as he went door-to-door, and nothing about him was really that fat. Soon he was finished he jumped in his sleigh four cylinder started and off on his way. As he drove down the street I heard only this, “Have fun with the marbles shoot straight and don’t miss”.   

Hah! 🤣 

Glad they made it despite delays caused by the Abominable Snow Man.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

1 hour ago, B-rett66 said:

Well I didn’t have the mic when I found this little guy and I really thought it would be a .500 peewee. Measured out at .524. Still a great score for me. Look how small .024 is. Funny thing is my thumbnail is .024 LOL. 

 

 

Nice. I found one that size, a white with some lutz, but pretty banged up. Still, peewees are utterly charming. I keep meaning to craft my own miniature peewee brag box some day.

Refreshing to see no bids on it.

I put the five names in a box and my daughter drew the winner this morning...

Congratulations to @B-rett66, you win all the marbles!

1 hour ago, Ric said:

Nice - what are the odds of that happening fortuitously!?

I was wondering that too, but when I searched the FB Vacor Fans group for "eclipse", this came up in about the fifth post from back in May!

Here's a 5/8" machine made Vacor Eclipse I purchased in a net bag today with a fine nine.

Here's an old thread in addition to the Joe Marbles page: 

On 12/2/2023 at 4:13 PM, Big Billy red beard said:

I WANT ALL THE MARBLES !  This is very generous of you.  And exciting.  Thanks for doing it.  

OK, you're in. Good luck!

Does appear to have the orange peel texture characteristic of a Euro Sparkler.