Steph

Have seen it called that before. 

Don't know for how long or by how many people. 

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Your marble might be a Marble King.  More views could help.

Possibly Alley Agate

I will call it a Tri-Lite though I wouldn't be surprised if Du-Lite was more correct. 

I think mostly people don't know for sure what Du-LItes were and all the 1930's marbles get lumped together as Tri-Lite.  

I don't know how to tell the difference between the Leighton companies. 

 

1 hour ago, boris64 said:

my first thought was kokomo

I am leaning that way also.

On 2/9/2024 at 12:34 AM, Fire1981 said:

OK ! I thought it was the other way around. C.J Fieldler had the formula at Akro and the MFC stole it from him. 🔥

RAR

1903 for MFC.   

Martin Christensen's 1899 sphere making design was revolutionary.    He used it first with ball bearings and made a fortune off that. Then he moved to marbles.  He got Leighton to teach him about working with glass. 

1914 for Akro.   

Before 1914, Akro was a jobberer.  They bought MFC marbles and packaged them up pretty for sale. 

Then the embezzler Horace Hill stole MFC's glass formulas, machine designs and client list.  He left MFC for Akro.  He tweaked the machine designs enough to get a patent for a "new" design so that Akro could legally start production.   And that is how Akro got into the marble-making business. 




 

2 hours ago, Fire1981 said:

Who made the first Machine made Oxblood? Akro,CAC or MFC 🔥

RAR

Martin F. Christensen got his recipe for oxblood from James Leighton. 

Akro then got the oxblood recipe from a dishonest MFC employee.  

I'm not aware that CAC had oxblood. 

Well, seriously,  I am not seeing monetary value in this group.  The red striped one at the bottom might be worth a second look but for the rest I say have fun with your wrist ricket. 

That marble looks like a hot mess to me.  I don't understand the interest in it.   Well, I only count three bidders, so not that much interest after all.  



The seller's other listings reinforce the negative impression I got from the listing above.  

 

Modern Marble King.   No name that I know of.  

I bet some people on Facebook are calling it a bumblebee.  It's happening a lot.  People putting vintage names on their modern Marble Kings.  Grrrrrr.  

I also am unfamiliar with the name ...  but eye-catching addition to your MK collection. 

Hi. Welcome.

That marble has a cold roll. Where the molten glass was not quite hot enough to allow the marble to be fully smoothed out on its trip down the rollers.  

The rollers are where machine-made marbles get rounded after the molten marble is released from the furnace. 

As to manufacturer I am leaning toward Jabo in Reno, Ohio. 

Time frame: 1990's or later

My vote is Vacor Spaghetti.  

They have been around since at least 1995, so very nearly 30 years. 

Very interesting about where and why good stone can be found.   I like a little science on a weekend morning. 

My first thought was Jabo.

ooooooh

Uranium glass existed before UV lights did so that's an interesting question.

My first thought without researching is to note that there is UV in sunlight, so maybe uranium gave glass a certain little something extra which could be appreciated in daylight?


Or maybe dayglow has nothing to do with it.  Maybe people just liked the yellow/green colors that uranium allowed them to produce.  



Pure speculation on my part.  My quick google search didn't tell me anything.  

Have heard of pigtails from Akro.  I thought I had seen them posted by Dani.  Maybe I have.  But in this thread it was posted by Alan.

 

10 minutes ago, akroorka said:

Football!!

 

I just got done and I still think that it is pretty . 
My Ariens double stage and my little one stage Toro teamed up with me at the controls and we just ate it up. The less shoveling the better in my world.

It does help to be retired—lol. I will never be a “snow bird”. I love all the seasons here in Wisconsin and I would rather blow snow than mow my lawn.

I am guessing that we got from 12-14 inches but hard to tell with all of the drifting.

Some in our city lost power--what a drag--not us though, I am just thankful for that.

The snow is cleared, the birdfeeders are filled and now--

Now I am ready for some Football!!.
 

I do want a snow blower.  Would have been good today.  But as I was out there shoveling for all that time I was thinking how natural it felt to be moving the snow out of the drive onto the growing snowbanks. 

Oddly natural considering it's not something I experienced for the first 40 years of my life.  



We lost power for about three hours midweek in that first predicted storm which didn't amount to much.  I guess the wind was strong enough for just a brief spell to damage a transformer but little snow to speak of. 

The storm that started yesterday made up for it.  About a foot of snow here. 

The view from my drive .... and I'm not done shoveling yet.  Gotta get back out and finish before those single digits hit. 

8 hours ago, Djp5690 said:

The last pictures, the blue marble, was sold as a Christianson, I’m guessing not the case?

 I wasn't sure I was seeing the base color right.

I considered it might be CAC.  I think Alley is more likely.   But I too am interested to hear what others say.