Steph

very nice effect

sizzling

The larger blue one and the orange ones look like Veiligglas wirepulls from Amsterdam. The smaller blue one might turn out to be a Master and the smaller whitish one might turn out to be a Master or a Vitro cat's eye. The yellow seems like it could turn out to be a newer Vacor. Or a Veiligglas wirepull. But could be something else. Pictures still a little fuzzy.

Hi. Not seeing exactly the views I expect ... but I think this will turn out to be a Peltier Rainbo. Circa 1930's to 1960's.

wild!

Yeah ... that's fun. I like when you think you have an ordinary clearie and then you find you have a balloon of one color inside a shell of a different color. (And I like using blacklight to reveal structure to help me guess the maker of the clearies.)

Those boulders are pretty!

If older, I'm wondering if it could be Japanese.

That's a good guess. With the texture I could see it being older. I don't think I"m seeing the cutlines clearly.

I don't remember seeing that much. I'm leaning Master. because of the shape of the patch. 5/8"?

You pretty much nailed my thought process on that, Joe.

Vitro Tiger Eye Fun find. Remnants of a 1950's marble game, maybe.

I will see if I can find something .... but it could be a bit .... am headed out to a picnic. Maybe someone else can find pictures in their records before I am able to.

I'm not sure it can be found. If it is the one I am thinking of it was so radioactive that we had to send it to Chernobyl.

I gotta remember to put this thread in the archives someday when it winds down. keeperthread

It is possible that MFC created it. The one that I thought might have been different -- I think that one may have been from Europe. So maybe there was a 20th century American standard and maybe a different one for Europe in the 19th or early 20th century. This is just a fuzzy half-memory so pretend I didn't say anything about that.

M.F. Christensen went from size 0 to size 10. I'm not currently seeing confirmation about what that meant in inches. From an MFC booklet.

This is from a Master flyer.

Here's the box!

They do represent measurements. I think most companies used those measurements. But for some reason I have been under the impression that one company didn't -- maybe an older company before the measurements were standardized. This is from an Akro salesman case: 000 is 1/2" 00 is 1/6" 0 is 5/8" And I just figured out how to remember the rest 1 is 11/16", 2 is 12/16", 4 is 14/16", up to 6 which is 16/16".

I don't think I have any rusty marbles!