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Nice! Thanks. The Alley oxes are still new to me, so I'm drinking them in.

That would be a chip. Below is a link to a thread with some pictures of pontils. To the best of my knowledge, your marble is "modern", that is, made after 1970. It's machine-made. There are some older marbles with embedded frit. However, most will be modern, made in Mexico or China. With some new varieties made in special runs in smallish quanties by Jabo and Dave McCullough within the last ten years.

Bump! Keeperthread!

I saw Kate's British Vogue cover which called her HRH ... and I knew her new family hadn't seen fit to call her a Princess so I googled to see if HRH was really right ... and I saw those other names. Lady Carrickfergus! That's so great.

*speechless* He does have kind of a strange look on his face .... Now you owe me a magazine for getting my hopes up! keeperthread

I have quite a few of my own I can add, but I'll start with this charmer from Pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/373446994079328542/

How is this possible?! Real dandelion ... and other natural items ... the insect died of natural causes https://www.etsy.com/listing/274135168/dandelion-bees-flowers-paperweight

Baron Carrickfergus .... do you know who that is? and Lady Carrickfergus?

There has been a Ric sighting! Okay, not here. But he lives! He'll be bahk.

That's a good answer though! Needed to be mentioned. I had some 1"-ers which might have been the American-made version ... but I can't swear they weren't European ... and sold 'em without ever knowing so I don't have them around to ask about.

Ohmigosh, how was I not subscribed? How was that possible? I'm subscribed now.

still loving The clear based competitors are hard to see on the track, huh? I was rooting for Fishy Fish!

Wonderful to have you, Richard. As far as I know, you're right about there being no UK marble factories. Not for toy marbles. But from what I've seen you guys have some nice antique German handmades hiding out there.

Here's one of the non-Alox packages I remember with similar:

On the way to post these in another topic ... will deposit them here while I'm in the neighborhood so maybe they'll be easier to find next time.

Looking through the cat's eye thread ... was reminded of these banana-y foreign ones. They were new to me then and I'd already forgotten them. Hopefully I won't forget them again.

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Neato! Small is also what I was envisioning for my project .... for when I ever got started. Because of space and cats! Maybe small enough to fit on a desk. Putting it in a box is not something I'd thought of. I have some slightly larger but easily portable salesman type cases.

These are boulders from an Alox bag which I got in 2008 from Nancy Frier. I thought I remembered knowing about this style of marble before that time. But maybe not knowing where they came from. And I thought I remembered seeing Master and Penny King bags containing them, which may have come to my attention around that time but were in circulation before that. Now the dates on these 1"-ers is being questioned. Also when they became available to the public is under discussion. What are your memories of them? Correction: Okay ... the question has been updated. It is agreed that the marbles were seen before then. The question is now what packaging they were seen in before 2008, or what packaging they came in which didn't come from a stash from the Alox factory after it closed. Thanks!

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