Steph

I would look up the chapter on Carpet Bowls and reproductions in my copy of Baumann's Collecting Antique Marbles. That was a new chapter added to the 4th edition if I recall correctly. But I'm in the process of packing everything up and I don't see it. Hope someone will be able to explain it well enough.

Yes, probably spots from playing the game. Definitely machine-made. That type of marble -- the Akro corkscrew -- was introduced in 1930.

Tale of woe .... In 2001, I decided to be dedicated about having an address book and dedicated to being organized, so I transferred most of my addresses into this nice little leatherbound book I got from a family member, and threw away the little scraps I had saved with the return addresses. And then ... because I kept the address book in a prominent position to remind me to write people ... it apparently fell off that prominent position and out of my life forever. I was devastated. I searched for weeks. That was shortly after I moved here and losing all those addresses cut me off from everyone. Now I have a box full of return addresses waiting ... waiting ... waiting to be transferred into my new, larger, unlosable, supposedly, address book.

I am such a procrastinator. I finally mailed my Groundhog Day cards from 2002. Well, most of them. And only to the people whose names I got around to putting in my address book.

When my grandfather was 65, he said he was gonna run a mile a day to stay fit. He is now 70. We have no idea where he is!

Gumby made me laugh. But I waited for someone else to write LOL for me and it never happened. And now the picture has disappeared. But the "we're down for maintenance" GIF at photobucket is almost cute enough to make up for the inconvenience. *panicky thought about what would happen if photobucket permanently went down*

The only guess I have at all is something to do with curtains. But that guess is given without knowing what size the heart is.

Pretty spiffy what "we" can do now. Throws me back into a reverie about how amazing this would have seemed to someone in the 1800's. The speedy little walkway shovelers near the end made me laugh.

"micro bubble Blue Bumble!" say that four times fast

that sounds good too

Hiya Hmmmmm ... if I didn't know the overall age of your group, I might have thought this marble came from about 1990 -- an Anacortes Vitro. However, since I do know the age of most, I'll say maybe Akro.

coolness ... warmness? Looks like all Peltier NLR's. With possibly at least one more Broken Cork in the bunch.

Still wish I could see the ends of the blue ribbon ... but I agree with Galen ... that's a machine-made marble. Pretty sure Akro Corkscrew.

Hi Chris. I don't see anything which looks to me like it was from a mold. These are handmade, from Germany, from late 1800's to early 1900's. With only one view of this one, I won't say for sure, but from this one view, this looks like it could turn out to be an Akro corkscrew, from the 1930's. Solid color marbles can occasionally be special, but they're usually considered "game marbles" and were made by many companies. What size is this one?

Here's the pic I was looking at. The green on the side of Jerry's mib is why I went flat out Citrus:

That's a good question. What was that meant to be?

I don't remember a snow name.

Chuck! Is a little yellow okay? Can Ann's be a Bloody Mary with yellow?

does it have anything to do with cows or horses?

Yup. Looks like it could be a straight up Citrus.

Pelt sounds right to me! Mmmmmm, bubbles.

Wasn't familiar with Night Gallery before I saw it in MeTV. To me it generally feels like a ghost story I walked in on the middle of. I expect when I finally watch the new X-Files I'll find something to like about it. But I also expect I'll be as annoyed with it as I was with the 2008 movie. The 2008 movie basically made it like the series never existed. Completely undid the story which climaxed in a huge way at the series finale. And I not happy. <--- understatement Very annoyed, very annoying fangirl about X-Files.

Looks like it would be a lemonade with a little twist ... yes? So that would have been made in a Moss Agate run.

I don't remember ever seeing the blue and orange ones. Today though my favorites are the red and yellows. They make me think of fall leaves.