Steph

... yes .... each got at least as much as the will said they should, so they live happily ever after.

I see what you mean. Something kinda like this. Well I don't have a good guess for what it is, so maybe you are on the right track.

Pennsboro Alley rather than St. Marys. (Earlier than St. Marys.)

I'm getting a strong Alley vibe here.

Oy. I don't see Master or Asian. The seams are relatively long and straight. The Master and Asian seams are typically shorter and more sharply curved. However, I don't recognize this color combo. The structure kinda says Akro, but I am not committed to that. Size?

"boy sprouts" ... reading an old letter from my Dad ... that's what he called those kids who go camping and work on merit badges and stuff ... what a card ....

cute!

Well that was funsadfun.

This is true!

Aaaaaaaaah. <---- involuntary utterance transcribed as well as I can

Probably Asian on #1 and #2. Maybe early-ish. Not sure I would default to Japanese on the large size marbles. But I guess could be. Vitro on the greens. My first thought was Marble King on the white, but with you pointing out a second color I'm not sure. The second color usually makes us lean toward Vitro.

#2 looks like some kind of a banana. American made. Peltier or Master. Leaning Peltier. #3 is Asian. Maybe Japanese. Early-ish. (So maybe as early as 1950's.) Agree with early-ish Japanese on the 2nd to last. The fatness of the vanes in the very last one makes me think of modern Mexican. So I'm not sure on that one. You could put it in with your Japanese ones and see how much at home it feels.

... sorry one's missing but that's a vintage lot, so good chance we're looking at a vintage marble. Akro is sounding good.

Hopefully we're looking at an Akro corkscrew with a fatter than usual ribbon, so it's not very twisty.

I am fond of the themed runs like Marble Mountain. But longest run sounds like something you MUST try for sometime. Now could be the time.

I think I remember most of this one. I need to try to reconstruct it. And then decide if I like it! Yes, I remember. And each son ends up with slightly more than the will said he should get, so it gets my stamp of approval.

I definitely need more vaseline. And an Akro Superman. Believe it or not, I don't have one yet. Superman and vaseline corks and slags. Need to go put those on my list while I'm thinking of it. (I just started making a list of lists. And I need to add some marbles to it.)

It's not too hard to see why Peltier stayed successful in the marble business for decades. Their "plain" marbles made with the less expensive glass are still very pretty. Also, I agree, I'm not aware of that one having a name. I think that some people lump them in with Champion Jrs. but I think that's a very small segment of marbledom.

Yes, happy birthday, Jelle. Hoody, I see no one answered about the cyclists ... they're ringing a bell for me ... I saw some information about marbles races with little cyclists about 8 years ago ... so it's very fuzzy now.

Pictures! We need more pictures!

Hoping we're looking at an Akro corkscrew. Possibly we're looking at something newer. Can you pin down a corkscrew action? I see one ribbon end ... what happens on the other end of that red ribbon? Is it located on the opposite side of the marble from the first end?

The gob feeder was a mechanical way of dropping the right amount of glass onto the roller. It replaced the hand-gatherers and their punties.

Okay, I finally got it sort of. I know where all the money is. I know where the mistake is. What I don't know is why it's so easy for that particular problem to trick us.

This is an oldie, but one I never figured out. Getting out my paper now to try to solve it. Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?