Steph

Star-studded Love Boat episode on MeTV http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636723/

Beautiful! I think I saw that sample set before but I don't remember for sure. What a beautiful specimen.

How fun. All three of them. 1935 -- gotta love that. And the personal note with the first set -- gotta love that too. A buncha beautiful wirepulls.

Yes, "frosted" is a common way to describe them. I don't know if it's officially how Vacor describes them. However, I think most will understand what you mean. And having one big one along with so many regular-sized ones makes it more likely that it is Vacor. They are often sold that way -- in nets with one big and many regular.

I have _seen_ a couple of the boxes. Can't get enough of them. Always love to see their contents again. Fun to see all the solutions. Whenever I want to pull up a reminder of Japanese marbles I type "Fellers" into the search engine.

Duplicates would be welcome anyway. Nice to revisit the favorites.

A little Leonard Cohen

Hiya. My votes are Jabo Classic for the first two and Vacor for the third. (The frosted look says "Vacor" to me ... either Vacor or a marble which has spent some time in an aquarium.)

Oh no! Heart sinking for his family and friends and the marble world.

Pretty sure, yes.

Bump just because it's so pretty.

Even for money, it seems such an unlikely combination of people and professions.

fun!

I wonder if the two words after the 59 are also part of the phone number .... like how people here used to start phone numbers with words like "Murray Hill". Anyone feel like reaching out to a professor of Japanese culture at a university?

Hamburger flavored before cooking with copious amounts of Teriyaki sauce, ginger and onion flakes, plus not so copious amounts of crushed red pepper. Yum.

We still need to contact someone with knowledge of Japanese cultural history to find out when they used two-digit phone numbers.

The graphics changed between the transitional box and the cat's eye box. And the label stuck to the box instead of being part of the box _might_ indicate a change in how packaging was done -- maybe something more expensive to something more generic. But if this second thought is a stretch, we still have a modernization -- and Westernization -- of the logo to account for.

:thup:

Yes, they definitely had machine-made marbles in 1926. Slags, Cornelians and Imperials. And they had Flinties and Moonies in 1929. I just don't see room for the patches -- or for Spiral style corks -- between this advertisement from 1929 and the "beautiful new line of marbles" Akro introduced for children to name in 1930, AKA the Prize Names. I don't recognize two of the patch/ribbon patterns in the machine as ever coming from Akro. One of the patch patterns does look like it could have come from Akro but, again, in a later year.

Mondo kewl!

Darn, this is still not in color: https://books.google.com/books?id=ScvNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA765 https://books.google.com/books?id=9hMTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA43#v=onepage&q=aluminoid&f=false

It's not often that we can see a date for a Japanese Cat's Eye bag ... but here's one.

Could be. However, the patches and ribbons still don't fit American manufacturers from that time as far as I know. That's my main point. It's earlier than I thought of for Japanese patches, but Japanese patches are still somewhat mysterious, while dates on American marbles are fairly well pinned down ... or so I thought.