Steph

You bet your sweet bippy.

My first thought was Champion. I'd take Dave's impression over mine, but still posting mine because I'm a troublemaker.

Mine ends tomorrow, so I'll bump now. They are cool cats.

Spooky.

Oooooooh.

almost imagine being there

Thanks, Dave.

When news broke of FAO Schwarz closing I had fantasies of going through the deepest recesses of their storage rooms looking for treasures like that.

email sent! should we send moola to the same email?

Awesome sauce. I'm feeling covetous. Did you find it in the wild?

Is it your box? What a treasure.

Much to explore. Amazing pictures. I like how the text is arranged. Both languages interlaced, yet clearly distinct. .... almost feel as if I could learn some German from it. Ooops, posted the same time as Mark. I didn't get a warning on my end. fwiw.

Nice find at that size

The new Master book is Master Glass, so it was from a later period. But it does have some older pictures in it so it's possibly there. I put my books away for my move and don't have them all back out yet. But a Master sample box is a good motivator for finding old books and pix.

Yes, unusual box. I only ever remember seeing one or two with the Cloudys labelled . (not that I see any Cloudys in this one ... edit: oh, wait, there might be one). Can't remember offhand if the other sample box I saw had that design, but just having a label for Cloudys makes this unusual in my experience.

I guess .... you get some good Vacors over there!

The glass looked Vitro first, and then my brain tried to get it to be Akro. Later musings made me play with the idea of Cairo Novelty. Are you able to isolate where the ribbons end?

I just received word of the passing of Tom JInks. A member of the marble community. Some of us will recognize his name from the Jinks run at Jabo in the early years of the investor runs. Prayers for his friends and family.

Neato! Saving!

I always love a Cairo bump. Don't know why I'm so fond of them, but I am.

Interesting. I don't see a "Recent Activity" option, but this discussion has made me look around and see other options I didn't notice before. Like an "Activity" button and that leads to a "Content I Started" button.

Glass looks older to me. If that's a Vacor style, I want some of 'em! (I don't recognize it.)

History flashback ... was reminded today ... Akro Prize Names were supposed to be called Fire Opals. That's the name which won the 1930 contest for naming Akro's new marble style. Prize Name was just the temp name on the boxes with the marbles and contest coupons in them. But Akro stuck with the Prize Name label for the basic corkscrew ... and called a different marble Fire Opal. ... and then the Fire Opal name appears not to have stuck around long.

Oh yes, what size is the marble?