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That pattern is one I'm not familiar with . . . not that that's saying a lot, but . . .

I'm holding out for another crystal run!

I got nuttin.' I'm too busy scrabbling around in my Alleys for the few I have that look like some in Nancy's Alox display. Or like those flames on the bottom row in your first pic, Steph. It just gets harder and harder, don't it? >>runs away screaming<<

You'll have to get underneath my pyramid to get at my marbles . . .

All I can tell you is that the middle one (blue with a red cap) is like one of the two Kokomos I have, both of which were sent to me by someone Kokomo reliable . . . Unlike myself.

About this time of year in 1957, I was looking forward to my 10th birthday. Now I just eat cake.

Like this one (not mine), but reversed? (and blue, of course)

Yup. Pelt. Only the second one I've ever seen.

I agree -- am beginning to think the two-color ones are older newer ones, if that makes sense . . . So far, it seems to me that there are the oldest ones (Amsterdam / Veiliglas, maybe a few German?), with one very long and convoluted one-color ribbon, in either colorless or colored glass . . . The second-oldest ones like the first but with two-color ribbons, like the one I posted earlier . . . The newer two-colored ones, with white the usual second color, with not as much ribbon as the earlier ones (and these may go on for a while, overlapping the newest ones?) The newest ones, mostly one-colored ribbon, also not as much ribbon in comparison with the old ones (Champion? Vacor?) I dunno, really. But that's how it seems to be developing, with the more we see. Winnie, you probably see more wire pulls than most of us over here. What do you think? Or what are you beginning to think?

Angel hair. Sometimes I use ditilini rather than elbows, just for the heck of it. Fav angel hair sauce "alla capo" copied roughly from a nearby Italian restaurant involves both sausage AND chicken as the meat part. Yum. Don't much care for seafood. But stone crab claws (with a bowl of garlic butter} are acceptable. Also fresh yellowtail.

Great party, Bob! Steph this morning . . . (one of her "friends" took this)

Happy birthday to youuuuuuu, Happy birthday to youuuuuuu, Happy birthday dear Steph, Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

And I found the piece I was looking for (thought I'd saved it somewhere): What I do know, is that the German transperants, and -opaques, ( slags as some of you call them) where made in Lauscha, because that's the reassson you can find them in the museum there. These marbles were one of the first machine mades in Thüringen. About the German sparklers, I think that name is totaly wrong, should be European Sparklers. I only found a few of my collection in Germany, while I was there, the rest of it, I've found in France, every summer we have holliday in France and of course I did my homework there. For me it is 100% sure that the European Sparklers were also made in France, and I think most of them. In the south-east of France, there is an area, that's looks very much like the area around Lauscha Thüringen, also this area is famous about it's glassworks, for example the presse papiers were made there. The sparklers must have been made, in, or close to the village of Biot, in the middle of that area. More then ones, this was told me by an antiqairian. Cees.

I have one bag of each type. So you think the one with the paper tag is older than the other? That's kinda what I thought, but I never heard anybody say, before now. That would be interesting . . .

I might go along with you, mainly because of the ox, but that yellow in the second marble isn't really eggyolk, as I know it, anyway. It looks like a bright cadmium. And the blue just looks too bright. Like cobalt (the color cobalt, not the substance). Not really the blue of the oldsters. None I have seen, anyway. I'm also struggling with the wavering action of some of the glass . . . But yes, the other marbles are really nice!

One of my Bulgarians, with similar colors to #2 -- but I like yours much better.

Wow -- just got these in the flesh, and they're even nicer than I thought they would be. That doesn't happen often!

Thank you, Hansel. I wanted to know what took him away, but was hesitant to ask. I only knew Clyde electronically . . . but he was a great help to me with my incessant Pelt questions, and I swear he never seemed annoyed by them. (I also have a suspicion that by buying that box of cerises I may have passed some kind of an unspoken Pelthead test as far as Clyde was concerned -- ) I think a LOT of people will miss Clyde . . .

I also now remember that some time ago a European board member (don't remember who) said he found more sparklers in France than anywhere else, by a lot. Interesting box! I've never seen Erropean sparklers in original packaging either. Does anybody have any more?

Agree . . .

I like that one.

Amsterdam wirepulls and swirls it is, if that's what you've settled on, Winnie. And I'm also going to try to remember Veiliglas. They should be remembered as a marble company the same as we remember Peltier, Akro, Alley, etc. [Thanks Winnie -- it's one of my favorite wirepulls!] Afterthought: Any indications that the Euro sparklers are, or could be, Veiliglas?

They're yours, so call them what you will! I'd certainly bid on those bottom two -- but not at old handmade prices. I'll save my limited marble budget for the machine-made Euros! Those are awfully nice -- Sorry. Amsterdam / Veiliglas marbles!

For some of the same reasons I doubt them being antique (colors being one, especially the second and third one), I would also keep them! If they are Bulgarian, they're some of the thought-to-be-older or first-group-made ones, and lovely in their own right. I like the "slurpy" quality of the glass on some of the Bulgarians, and buy one now and then . . .

[me either]