Steph

LOL ... I hadn't actually watched the videos before I made the post above. Now that I have, I have a big smile. The Dinosaur is great and the music on the second video woke me up. What fun you and Oliver must be having.

Hello Robert. Well, that's interesting. I didn't know that Hubelino existed until you just gave me cause for googling it. I _had_ heard of Duplo, but the marble run part of the building blocks was missing from my experience.

Yeah ...

Ric stopped by briefly ... maybe he'll step in again ... He would be a big help in the ID and explanations.

The glass for the early Pelts was made from scratch. Akro glass was also made from scratch. The later Pelts were made with recycled glass. Don't know if the switch to recycled glass ever occurred with Akro, but their later Tri-Color Agates do have a different look from their early ones.

If I had enough money, I would follow the snow. Change hemispheres with the seasons to always have fireplace weather.. At least I think I would. Maybe I would change my mind after a few years of all snow all the time.

Oh man ... time to build a snowman!

You got us.

That's what I was thinking -- Vitro. Except the colors are coming across so thick that I wonder about Japanese. The long straight seems are more of a Vitro property though. So that's how I will vote.

No problem ... we count on you to warm up the audience ....

Thanks, Bob, for stalling for us!

No. Sorry. This is a new one. Well, modern. Maybe not new. They were seen at least back as far as the 80's. It's a Vacor Galaxy. I don't know how the colors were applied -- however, we count it as a machine-made.

Help! Ron recently threw quite the major kink into my understanding of this category. He pointed out a surprising type and everything I thought I knew about them shattered! LOL And now I need to rebuild it! So, what is the range of variation? Some looks so different from Marble King and some looks so similar. And some may actually have come from MK (right?) when they had orders to fill and ran out. I need to haul ought my copy of American Machine-Made Marbles to check that part.

I'd say it was mostly MK and one or both of Heaton and Bogard. (Heaton became Bogard.) Need a thread about range of variation of Heaton/Bogard cats because they had a wide range AND I'm pretty sure that some of their packages contain Marble Kings ... from times when they needed to fill orders and didn't have enough. MK was pretty consistent until recently. Lately they got some chubby vaned hybrid cats which could theoretically be thought of as Vitros.

I think I just gazed into that blue in the top right view for a full minute before I realized I was lost in it.

My marbles are mostly packed. I know we have some people with spiffy displays. Hope a lot of people play.

I don't know about submarines. The lavender makes me think we might be looking at a Jabo or DAS. When did you acquire it?

Hoody, here's one for you ... might be too American ... but maybe you'll get it .... http://marbleconnection.com/topic/21250-humor-ar-ar/

The structure does look Royal ... just not sure I ever saw those colors. Some Akro Royals. Are these colors close enough to feed a Royal fire?

Keeping it simple. A Royal Agates box pic I dug up while looking for a match for the colors on Richard's patches today.

They do, but I'm trying to find some back-up for that being an acceptable color combination.

Old newsletter. Volume 33 already way back in 1984? I can't read the print. But that's marble history. http://www.marblecollecting.com/marble-collectors-society-of-america/

If you're seeing a cork, then it could be what is known as a "broken cork". That's where you have a four-ribbon Peltier NLR where the four ribbons connect in such a way as to form a cork-like pattern.