Steph

Bibi had her name when we got her. She was almost 3 years old. And she's the most responsive cat I've ever seen to her name. So no changing it. Somewhere around here I have a thread where I was keeping track of the different marble names I had seen. I think I slid some foreign names in there, but mostly it was about names from different times in history.

Ha! I just noticed Ron's cat. Funny that it also has an M on its forehead like my Akrocat! That has to mean something!

I ran the question by Edna. She says it's been a long time but she remembers a former Blenko employee ending up in one of the WV marble maker's shops -- maybe Charles Gibsons' shop -- but though she visited, she didn't see any marbles which interested her.

I never even knew there were handpainted examples .....

oh noooo .... that's sad .... and hilarious I would pop right up and offer to help with that, but I guess I need to wait to see where the stock market bottoms out.

Yes. MK. Tricolor Rainbow.

sooooo nicely displayed beautiful

Chuck ... those Champion-like marbles are freaky ... I don't want to think about them!

nice and busy

I know know about knock-off. There are lots of makers who had "fire" in their marbles for various reasons. What do you mean by blue spot? Something with a fiery white base and a blue patch could be a Peltier Acme Realer, for example.

oh myyyyyyyy!!!!!

In spite of two separate green ribbons making me consider other makers, I'm leaning to Akro based on seams and colors.

got a little shiver ... gosh I love these pieces.

Wonder what he was getting from Vitro. I seem to recall, the MK connection being mentioned in American Machine-Made Marbles, but I don't remember about Vitro. Guess I could check .....

When @klay-taw-n posted his introduction thread I fell in love with his marbles at first sight! I searched him out on ebay and now these are mine! And they're even better in hand than they were in his beautiful pictures, because they FEEL so good. Their texture. Their weight. They're great. While I've had many earthenware marbles I wasn't familiar with stoneware. Now I'm a fan. This bullseye marble needs a video to show it to best effect but I'll try to make do with three views. A work of art. P.s., this 3/4" glazed marble is itching to be a shooter in a game of Ringer, if I can find 13 glass marbles that I'm willing to shoot it at. My thumb kept trying to flick it. I'm going to put most of my new mibs up onto a shelf to keep them pristine, but I'm saving this one out (and one other) to play with.

Ah, this appears to be David's article, preserved at Joemarbles.com http://joemarbles.com/3Marble Articles/David Chamberlain/0008 C.E. Bogard and Sons Cats Eye Marbles.htm

These were from an ebay auction.

Here's Nancy's box. @pollyestr2

Here are a couple of mine which I think are Bogard. I need a bigger better picture of this luscious one. Then there's this simple one.

As I continue my shift from Photobucket to Imgur, here are some Bogard pictures I retrieved. I think these (or at least most of them) are from David Chamberlain, and were posted in the Bogard thread at Marble Mental.

It probably goes without saying how nice it is to see you (and your delectable mibs) but I'll mention it anyway!

LOL .... and hey there!

The past ceramic artists I had in mind who made names for themselves in the marble world were Nadine MacDonald and Tom Thornburgh. A different style from yours. I've sent a feeler to my contemporary guru to see if she's aware of anyone else who might be relevant to you. Edit: the only additional names were for polymer clay guys such as Carl Fisher which I gather is not what you had in mind.

About ten years ago I gave some marbles away to a cub scout mother for a marbles badge the boys could earn. But I don't think that badge is available anymore. The most active marble recruiter I know of is Rich Maxwell who helps students build marble runs at schools. I see him posting about various marble activities on facebook. Here is his website. https://marblekeeper.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Redc8-d4DTNG8Q5utBjGekEL_NeSy5Fyuo1_0zqa7EHiMzgIB1J998bk