Steph

Sounds like some good fun for 25 bucks.

That's zippy

Wildwood National Marbles Tournament begins Started yesterday. Finals are tomorrow, I gather. Good luck, kids! The history in the article isn't 100% right, but I'm okay with it. I like to see marbles in the news.

It's sooooo hard. They're spread out. What little effort I've put into their arrangement before has been dedicated to boxes where they were easily visible. But these aren't boxes which fit conveniently into moving boxes or which will protect the marbles well. Ugh. Gotta bite the bullet and pour 'em into their moving containers without all that much padding. And trust whoever is moving 'em not to drop 'em. I could say that only I should move 'em ... to save 'em from dropping ... but I'm a klutz.

I'm finding so many wonderful things as I dig through my backroom! LOL Lots of marbles too.

"Tri-color" was being used confusingly when I started collecting. Mostly I hear "multicolor" now, and mostly multicolor needs three colors of ribbons. Will usually have six ribbons. Well, there may be exceptions for marbles with the six-ribbon structure of the multicolors but with only two colors among the six ribbons. Agree, "Rainbos" on Shell's.

Also ... on the middle one ... is the blue/black the ribbon on a yellow base? ... or is the yellow the additional color on top of a blue base?

I often feel okay about saying "Cairo or Heaton" without feeling like a can go further.

Woot woot! Found my copy of Carskadden and Gartley's Chinas: Hand-Painted Marbles of the Late 19th Century. Been missing for years. I put it aside without reading it and immediately lost it. I will appreciate it much more now for having had to wait so long.

Interesting. The first view on the white looks very festive -- like wedding streamers. And the second view is like "where did they go?!"

Agree Pelt. I'm getting an ambivalent feeling about the age. It's lovely.

Yeah, that is pretty darn cool. That one looks like it had a major hang-up on the machinery.

Yes, modern. The base marble is (or is like) a Vacor Michelangelo. But the frosting is puzzling me. Did Vacor make a style like that which was intentionally frosted? Or did that happen after production?

Uh oh ... if they came with the ones I'm about to comment on in the other thread, they could actually be modern Vacors. But let's still keep Alley as a strong choice. Edit: Naw, GOTTA be Alley.

*contemplating what would be a good marble bug emoticon* I feel really good about these being 1940's Alleys.

Had never heard of it.

hmmm ... the green dot one? what is happening there?

Nice. You shot it?

Yes, you're right. I heard back from Scott. Large flakes. They looked so silvery in my picture I got confused.

Doesn't need to be. Thank you, Chuck.

Neato!

Okay, what is the silvery? ... I thought it was mica ... but when I compare it to Jeff's it doesn't look similar. I guess I could ask Scott.

I'm pretty sure I got one of those -- or half of one -- when I was 12. In our Christmas stockings in 1976 my brother and I got a bunch of clearies of different sizes. I like to think it came from a Bicentennial bag. That's when my love of clearies was born.

Odd ... I thought "liger" would be recognized by Scrabble, but no.