nancy cooper

I decided to play with Italian glass last night - here's the result. It's hard to photograph black with cubic zirconia so I outlined the spiral pattern that is really there but you can't see it. Best to view it in person.

Rich

Very Cool! This looks like it could be fun....How long did it take you to go from interested to producing marbles and helping repair others (I LOVE the idea of restoring or re-making damaged marbles)....NANCY

And a few more...

I just got some really awesome cats today and had to take pictures of them...Nancy

Nancy, one trait I learned for a wirepull is that the ribbon of color is supposed to be one continuous stream. Some of yours look like they have multiple ribbons. Am I seeing them accurately?

Back to the flashlight and magnifying glass! I think most of them are more than one tho. I can't tell on the blue ones. At least I'm learning!...Thanks...Nancy

These look like wire-pulls to me. I'd like to know about who makes them and how as well.....Nancy

Awesome marble!! Nancy

What awesome stories! Nancy

Pretty sad when Photobuckets editing system is 10X better than Kodak.

Picasa is a pretty good basic photo editing program that is a free download from Google. It also lets you access all the pics on your hard drive no matter where you may have stored (or in my case 'lost' them)...Nancy

A few more pics of that group...Nancy

There are the most amazing marbles on this thread. Thanks for sharing them. I only barely noticed marbles and it will probably be a while to amass a collection. Here's a group of 100 plus marbles we found at the glass site this summer. There are some interesting looking marbles all with a story to tell...What general era do the bulk of these appear to be from if you have any opinions. All but 3 or 4 are from the glass site. One black, red, white that matched the other 2 from the site joined the group, 2 pastel blue with pink and blue with green that seemed to fit and a couple of awesome red,orange, yellow, creamy, clear ones that I love but have no idea where they belong are here as well....If you see anything that looks familiar I'd love to hear about it. Unfortunately, (or fortunately - depending) I still do not know EVERYTHING!......Thanks, Nancy

AWESOME Marbles!! Here are some wounded warriors who didn't fare so well the last 70 to 100 years at the glass site where we have found a couple hundred marbles....Any one able to do a post mortem and Id any of these remnants??????...Nancy

Peerless Patch patches are distinct from the patches seen on the marbles of other companies because they have curved edges.

Pictures anyone? For those of us lost out here...Thanks!...Nancy

Hi Nancy:-)

Here's a link to a bunch of bricks and slags:-)

slags

BT

Thank You! That is an AWESOME group of marbles!!!!!!! Nancy

P.S. What would be the definition of 'Brick'?

It looks like so much fun!!...Nancy

Thanks, Ann! These are beautiful...Nancy

Another PS...when you click and hold down to drag it is a regular click NOT right click...hope that helps...Nancy

ha! thats cool! I never know you could drag photos to your desktop like that. Thanks nancy, thats a cool tip. Worked for me.

I like it when things work....I use Explorer, Firefox, & Chrome. Drag and drop works with all of them most of the time. Sometimes the picture may be 'trapped' as part of something else (an element, a PDF file etc...)and not saved as an image or a jpeg which may be the case with some of the E-bay pics but not most of them. Some of those you can drag (or copy and paste)into a blank document or into a G-mail message window (I don't think other e-mails have the drag and drop to download feature)and retrieve them from there. Another thing that helps copy difficult files is to download a free program called 'Cute PDF Writer' then when you have something you want copied (like a screen shot) you press the keys 'control' and 'P' at the same time which is the command to print and Cute PDF Writer will come up as one of your printer options, select it and then instead of printing save the file or picture or whatever where ever you want on your PC. But plain old drag and drop works about 95% of the time. I tried it on Marble Connection a minute ago. All pictures even Avatars drag and drop. That's how people take your photos and things from Face Book and My Space and that's probably how all the marble pictures that belonged to others ended up on that 'creep' guys page. That pop up window you got on the one picture was probably the URL address (a link) where the picture is stored online. When you see that you often have a second option to choose the image HTML which will give you the picture. (Photobucket will let you add HTML code to get a picture)....okay, that's probably more than you wanted to know....LOL...Have a great night...Nancy

PS please ignore all the huge run on sentences...I'm too tired to edit tonight...

I have had a few of these identified but don't know what many of them are. If anyone recognizes any of them I'd love to know...Nancy

Hi

I received my issue of AntiqueWeek today and on the front page is an article "ALOX:FROM SHOELACES TO TOYS".. continued on another fuul page of marbles and the boxes, etc..

I thought those of you that collect these would enjoy the article.

Unfortunately, I am not that knowledgeable on how to take pics of pages to put the article on the chat board.

but am sure that someone else gets the newspaper and can do that.

Di

Here's a link to the online story at Antique Week

Marbles

http://mee.bo/bES7S8

source: Antiqueweek

Nancy

Alox: From shoelaces to toys

By Susan Melllish

Making a ring in the dirt and spending an afternoon shooting marbles was a popular pastime for children of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Or on windy days, the skies would be filled with any number of diamond or box shaped paper kites.

Alox Manufacturing Company ...

Article in full at link above

He wrote a letter about receiving the box as a child and how he lost track of them - only to discover them many years later in his family's trunk. When I saw how choked up he was when he was going to sell them - I declined to buy them. He clearly had a lot of childhood memories in that box. Only after he insisted and another 3 months passed did I agree to take them.

I love this story...Nancy

Steph, I don't what the problem is with your setup but I use Firefox exclusively and have no trouble downloading pics.

Another small program I use to take portions of a screen shot is Snipping Tool from Microsoft.

I can usually grab pictures from almost anywhere and just drag them to my desk top...no copy , paste, download or anything just grab (click on them) and drag (while still holding your mouse key down pull the picture to your desk top and drop it there)...try it...Nancy

I think these may be some version of a cat's eye....Am I right?...Any ideas on where they may have been made would be appreciated... Nancy

Great pic in the sun Alan.

So many really impressive marbles...still need to see some in person. Nancy

OMG! I DON'T have any like these! They are amazing!!! Do you just sit all day and gaze at them? I probably would.......

Some corks

I have some of these! I wish I knew what they were. Here I'm contemplating drawing a diagram with corresponding marbles...LOL!! Nancy