Steph

Jealous! We're having a green Christmas in Wisconsin.

Hope someone can help. There's gotta be one out there, right? I've been looking for a button forum off and on for years. So far no luck.

And thanks for the reminder that Gropper jobbered for CAC also. Weird. Small company. Operating short time. Had both its own line and jobbers. Okay. I knew that. Why does it seem so strange to me? If Albright just bought their marbles after CAC had already closed that would have had to have been a whole lot of marbles since Albright advertised having glass marbles. With no mention of "while supplies last".

Akro. No doubt in my mind.

It's cute. I hope it's real.

Yes, they're pawnmasters also. Whoever IDs their marbles knows a whole lot, which makes their periodic errors interesting to me in an abstract way. Do we know if they started out as marble collectors? Or pawn people who just put in a lot of time studying since they had marbles to sell?

sweet hybrids, jten

Dang, what lens did you use to get that?!!!

Very pretty. Part of that group marbles that I don't know what the company name could have been. Not. A. Single. Clue. How could we not know?

Thanks, Brian!

Thank you! I just got an eyeful of blends the other day and suddenly jumped up several levels in how appealing I found them. It was like I was seeing them for the first time. Do we know about packaging for blends?

I agree that #2 has a Tiger Eye structure. (However Tiger Eyes are a type of Sunburst -- the earliest prettiest type to the best of my knowledge.)

Love it! Macaws! I do hope that name catches on. It's wonderful

Akron is in Summit County. Ravenna is in Portage County. Of course the article wouldn't necessarily be accurate about the location. I remember someone posting a directory once which listed who was making marbles in any given year. Anyone remember that? Found it. It was the Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers. So, can anyone get their hands on that for 1911? Brian Graham probably knows. Need to send out a bat signal.

Very cool. Wonder what that was about. Why would CAC have their own line and have another company claim their marbles also? Puzzling.

Good catch!

Jelle, you never cease to amaze!

Thanks, Eggie

Now ... Torchwood.

Fiber optics. The little 'uns are mostly around 13/16". The smallest is about 3/8". I should try the three-color one again.

The peewees are mostly around 13/16". The smallest is about 3/8". That wasn't so hard. Why do I always let it scare me? I should try the three-color one again.

This shows the distinct lines I see on my fiber optics ... when their equators are in the light. Flash photo. Funny thing -- the flash changed the angle of the circle. So, this is why I'm leaning to yours not being a fiber optic. Your photo is not flash though and the resolution seems different from mine so I suppose if you took a flash photo and got a clear ring it could change my mind.