Steph

Bubblegum is good!

oh man, I miss my tin litho cars. But I'll start fresh after the move, now that I know what I like.

awwwwwwww, sweet.

Hello, Bert, ol pal. Well, that's a potpourri all by itself. Does the marble dish have a story?

Yesterday I felt like some marbles, so I made me a few .... you do know how fun that sounds, right? Did this come off the Miller machine? The white one especially looks handmade. Very interesting. And lovely.

The Vitro-Agate Company, The Marble Museum's Guide to the Glass-Agate Company, 2005, by Chris Cooper and Michael Johnson Very limited run. My copy says "14 of 500" but I think that maybe only 200 were produced after all. I have just remembered where I put mine ... so let me check for dates on those ads. On p. 31, I see 1954 for the last ad there, with the bags and boxes. I don't see the cat eye ad, but it's gotta be near that time.

That is an exceptionally cool marble, Alan. Must be fun in hand.

Cute ... looks like a good place for other toys.

Are we Allowaying? Yes! Yes, we are Allowaying.

Don't call my marbles ugly! nice carving

P.s., while I'm in the neighborhood, here is another ad Mike posted in the Mostly Pix thread which we don't have in this thread yet. I might be able to find the date for the ad on my own, maybe in the Vitro book, but would welcome anyone jumping in with that. (Offhand I'll estimate 1953 to 1955 for the ad until I look it up.)

I get the same general impression that you are forming. I don't know how to narrow it down. Once started to collect pictures of all sorts of bag headers to try but that project got beached. I think that this is a very early Cat Eye ad. Migbar posted it. Maybe he can confirm. (Edit: for now I'll estimate 1955 for this ad.)

Byuuuuuuutiful

I've had that thought. Luckily no one is forcing us! :

Classic.

I was just thinking about those today. I would call them Conquerors and leave off the Phantom. But I was just looking some Conquerors and thinking how nice it would be to have some more photos of them. And here you are.

Aw, thanks.

Wow ... what a wonderful distribution of white.

I am sooooooo sorry. Can you ever forgive me?

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh *happy sigh*

If it's perfectly clear without even a gray-ish cast, then good chance American, and if American, then good chance Peltier.

I'm at #6 working my way down. So far so good, they're coming pretty easily. Figured I'd take a break and share the link with you. 11 Murder Mystery Riddles. Can You Solve Them All?

frothy

Oven brick Would want to see the tint of the base glass before I tried to give a maker.