Steph

I am considering Vacor Rooster rather than Jabo. 

Congrats!  Great news.

Johnny Appleseed of Rolley Hole

p.s., you'll have to let us know some of the highlights of your new park.  I'm sure you'll love it too. 

Did they drown?

My best guess is Jabo. 

Love!  

Fish eye!

It's an understandable expansion of the "exotic" name.   CACs, Vitros, now Marble King.  Possibly others.  I haven't kept track. 

Nice to meet you  

Wow!  Thanks for bumping with the explanation. 

Nice

Nifty.  I hope you find the tune someday!

Welcome.  Looks like oxblood on my end.

Wow, your MK collection is getting a lot of color as well as depth.

Thank you!

I'm late, but it's looking CAC to me. 

13 minutes ago, shiroaiko said:

I appreciate the article. How I wish if the writer had provided a description to the marbles! Glass marbles are generally beautiful...maybe compared to other cheap toys. Also imports from a country of weak currency floods to a country of strong currency is no wonder. Opposite does not happen. That is why old marbles are domestic in my country. 

1907 in Japanese time is Meiji 40, the time glass marbles are said to become popular among children nationwide. The marbles from Meiji are lampworked ones with snap-cut pontils. These are poorly made clearies, which are distant from perfect roundness. You can see grooves around a pontil. Also bright colors like red or yellow were not used for the first marbles. Makers like Tokujiro Oi and Wakamatsu Yoneda (Komeda?) are the first exporters. The first record of glass marble export that I could find is Taisho4 (1915) of Tokujiro's via a Kobe agent called su-re-man (Sleiman? Suremann?). Tokujiro's was a pioneering maker for glass bangles, mercury beads, seed beads, gold beads and artificial pearls. So-called Chinese-style transitionals are the snap pontil type, highly-likely Japanese export from Taisho - early Showa era. 

Fascinating.  Thank you for your information and insights. 

Thanks for sharing.

Hope the value is all in the bag and folks weren't bidding it up for the marbles.

8 hours ago, shiroaiko said:

I'm curious. If the article embarrasses people here, maybe you can show only the marble picture? Does it mean our poorly made marbles reach to the US that early?

No marbles were shown.  It was only text in a 1907 trade journal.  The racism on that page is breathtaking and heartbreaking.   Here's the part about marbles. 


 

Here's the whole link:

Mixer and Server - Google Books

Peewees used in airplane controls??

May 28, 2001:  

Also, for what it's worth, I have a 1907 article mentioning Japanese marbles.  But it's a very racist.  I don't even like to share it.  No company was mentioned.  The marbles would probably have been handmade. 

 

Also, the marbles in the machine in this 1929 ad looked Japanese to me.    But it's a very small photo and no information to go on besides the ad date.   There were similar American marbles made, but not in 1929 as far as I know. 

This thread refers to trademarks which date to 1929.  

https://marbleconnection.com/topic/20463-japanese-transitionals

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I was just thinking about him.  Sorting books and found a Ravenswood booklet he coauthored.  

Welcome.  Interesting focus.    

Genius.  I remember rubber band guns!  But we just pieces of pine.  Never had the materials for a rifle barrel.