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  1. Royal3
    Too cool, Joe! I hope your company and community appreciate what a great guy they have in their midst. Best of luck, and I hope you are able to do this for fifty more years.
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    The green ones are especially striking. I don't think there were any of that color - or blue ones? - in that big find you had ten years ago, were there?
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    Mighty oaks...lol.
  4. Royal3
    These three would top my list: - 'Leighton' type handmade faceted pontil slags - Unusual onionskins (odd colors or cores) - Under rare Akros, hybrid Popeyes for sure Hey Alan, have you done an Akro experimental thread before?
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    Great question, Steph. My quest as a player back in the mid-50's was always for two kinds of mibs; shooter clearies and steelies, which of course no one would let you use in a game, but all the cool boys HAD to have one nonetheless. I remember hating all the cat's eyes (junk,) and the patches (dull.) When I found my old Crisco can containing my collection 18 years ago, it held marbles from nearly every machine maker of marbles in the book, from Akro corks to Peltier rainbos (but no NLRs.) But my favorite was still the beat-up 3/4" ruby red clearie shooter that had won me many a marble.
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    I think so too...maybe only in the "experimental" or dug Akros have I seen anything with bubbles like that, but that doesn't look dug. WAY cool marble, like so many here!
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    Yep, I had the same experience just now. I like the update! It's...lighter and brighter. New and improved lol!
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    I just happened to stumble on the obituary of John Miller, a long time collector and maker from WVA and father of makers John Hamon and Boyd Miller. Some of you, like me, may have met one or more of them at shows, and have a couple of their works. John H. used to have a shop and furnace down by the river in Hannibal, Mo. but I couldn't find an online listing for him. Here's a link to the obituary; http://www.allenfuneralhomewv.com/notices/JohnSonny-Miller
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    That is just cool, Steph! Though I love all pinball games - oh, the quarters I threw down years ago in Fireball and Satin Doll, and I have a couple vintage ones on a wall - I never thought to search on there for a marble themed one!
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    I didn't find any links on the board to a great web source of info on old marble games, one I've used quite a few times over the years. It's called the Internet Pinball Machine Database, and here's their site intro: "The Internet Pinball Machine Database — also known as the IPDB — is a comprehensive, searchable encyclopedia of virtually every pinball machine ever commercially made. The database currently includes 66,594 images of 6,074 games, 4,609 other game related files, and links to other pinball websites, grouped by machine. The database also includes pitch & bat baseball games, cocktail table machines, bingos, and payout machines ... when they have a pinball theme. The data in this database has been laboriously gathered by the Editors over many years, from books, photographs, flyers, web sites, pinball manufacturers, collectors' personal records, and of course the pinball machines themselves. Most of the actual photographs in the database came from various collectors – over 2,372 different contributors to date." Here's the link: http://www.ipdb.org/search.cgi l hope anyone that needs info on old marble games finds it useful.
  11. Royal3
    Pretty clever. We've been shooting pinball in one form or another for centuries, now kids of all ages can make an impromptu layout at home using the hot new gadget. Sure beats the Rainbow Loom. But somebody please tell the narrator how to pronounce "Fiery."
  12. Royal3
    That copper patch is a bit unusual, Al. Nice marble.
  13. Royal3
    The good news is he's still around...that's the key. Very happy to hear it. Enjoy your time with him. I don't have any older relatives left, save for a sibling. My last trip was to your fair state to say goodbye to the last one. I always forget how lovely most of CT is - of course it was peak fall color, so the foliage show was spectacular.
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    I'm glad to BE around, Al - glad you are too. I remember you well, and the visit to Tacoma - what a blast that was! Unfortunately I just don't travel well anymore, and I'm headed for more medical work soon. But generally feeling OK (I'm 90 pounds lighter than '08) and I'm hanging in there. Someday - who knows?
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    That it is, Bob. Still crazy after all these years...how's the family?
  16. Royal3
    Thanks Steph. I lurk a lot - health has kept me from doing much for the last ten years, but I'm hanging in and feeling better so I hope you'll "see" more of me.
  17. Royal3
    I've listed nine items for sale on eBay, including a nice 13/16"+ MFC brick in mint condition. http://www.ebay.com/sch/marbles_by_r3/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= Thanks!
  18. Royal3
    Does anyone know of a good, reliable marble polisher? I've got a Mark Matthews that needs a touch-up and I'd like to connect with one. Thanks!
  19. Royal3
    I adore metallics, so great marbles, everybody! I just don't have any good pictures of mine. Here's the only pic I have on hand, of perhaps the oddest "metalhead" in my collection, a 5/8" Akro blue ox with a metallic coating. I bought this at a show years ago, and Roger Hardy later verified that Akro had run some of these. This is almost impossible to photograph properly for someone below rank amateur like me...but it's beautiful in hand.
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    I just happened to be browsing the cranberry topic when I saw this, so I thought I'd add a quick comment. At that time in 2008, the holy grail of marble making was lutz - everybody wanted to run pure gold aventurine, but it was very difficult to do, easily burnt. Some of the oxblood in the run- both red and burnt - no doubt came from the copper flakes (lutz) dumped into the top of the furnace that just got too hot or reacted badly (I'm no glass chemist.) There was also some bright yellow glass used that undoubtedly added similar effects. The black/gray on these cranberries? Honestly after eight years and a half years I don't remember, but I think it was likely lutz, or possibly black aventurine, but I'm not sure there was much - if any - of that. Lots of green a/v, some blue, and lutz. I don't think yellow would have been added to red glass, or purple - another color that shows up in later examples, notably the parrot. Just FYI.
  21. Royal3
    These are a couple of my favorite onions, both with mica and just red & yellow;
  22. Royal3
    Sometimes there's a dead giveaway when only one or two parts of the marble are exceptionally wet; any type with a patina that isn't uniform I always view with a jaundiced eye. But your best friend is definitely a 10 or 20X loupe.
  23. Royal3
    Thanks for the great pics & reports, guys. Wish I would have gone; can't make them all but I hate to see good friends - and good marbles - carrying on without me, darn it...
  24. Royal3
    Just to throw another log on the fire in here; George Sourlis has done tireless research of advertising & other marble related printed material over the years. Art Jones not many years ago spent a long session with George and his massive notebooks and learned a very interesting point that may or may not be germane. There is no record of Akro advertising or pricing pages for slags after mid-1930. If Akro came out with corks then, it might make sense to pull the passe slag that had been the industry staple for more than 25 years for the hot new ticket. Just a thought...
  25. Royal3
    What a great analysis, Roger! Thanks for the hard work! I love both kinds of marbles as you do, and no doubt the CAC's are harder to find. While the really good, tightly twisted "9" examples of both kinds can command some higher prices ($50-80+ in some cases) nice mint ones are still really affordable (as low as $10) and I think undervalued. Andrea that is a KILLER marble... :Emoticon-jawdrop: I'm in LOVE! If you ever get tired of looking at that rascal, and it needs a good home, I PROMISE I'd take real good care of it... :Cool_653: Well, I tried - I wouldn't let go of it either!!
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