Steph

Sunset at 4:24 today. We'll be getting our earliest sunset this year at 4:12, starting on December 4 and lasting until December 16. That feels soooooo early. Makes me feel like a foreigner up here in Wisconsin ... which I sometimes call Canada. But I look up other places that I've lived and I guess it's not _that_ much earlier than I would have gotten used to growing up. Half an hour to an hour-and-a-half earlier.

Yup, Heisler Gold Ale in the same category ... I find from a quick google. I didn't know about that one. Okay ... the official answer I was looking for was "fictional names which show up in different TV shows or movies". I've been watching Criminal Minds and was surprised by references to Morley cigarettes which I knew as a brand name from X-Files and Hudson University which is mentioned a lot in the Law & Order franchise. Good job!

LOL. I suppose that could be true also. And sounds like you're on track to the answer I had in mind.

Neato pics. A little creepy -- sorta biological looking. But neato.

Schweet!

I suppose that is a true statement.

In. Cre. Di. Ble.

When I see pics like that I think, "oh to have so much serotonin". Well, sometimes I have more patriotic thoughts also -- uniforms can make me bawl -- but no uniforms here.

What do Morley cigarettes and Hudson University have in common?

Here are Cat's Eye Jack's 3/8" Marble Kings

Hi Suzie! Those are exquisite.

For Cat's Eye Jack, some of his peewees.

Back in 2010, I was told 99% chance of Alley. It did seem strange that Champion would have Alley peewees on hand 27 years after the company went out of business. So it's cool to hear that Champ could do peewees also.

That's a cute box. I don't remember ever seeing that.

If they weren't called Tater Bugs, they would need to be called Flan. Smooth and creamy. That little rod of glass in your bottom middle pic shows up on more than one of mine.

Thanks!

Looks more or less okay to me. I see places where polishing compound would have wanted to stick and I don't see the compound.

What do you have? Or have pictures of? p.s., doesn't have to all be marbles.

I guess this doesn't belong in this thread since it's not exactly "Master-Made". Oh well.

This really is a wonderful display idea!

Don't know the size on these. But they're called Peewees. Well, "Pewees".

When I was 12, I got some clearies of many sizes. I'm pretty sure the source was Champ's Bicentennial bag but not positive -- Santa put them in my stocking and so I didn't see the packaging. But the year was right for them to be the Bicentennial bag. Sooooo ... as we know, the Bicentennial bags contained marbles from many makers. And the peewees have been said to be Alleys. Is that still the ID status on those peewees? The question came to mind today when I came across this muslin bag pic I'd saved long ago. I looked the bag up online today and found that it was filled with peewee clearies. Source: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2547749_418-champion-agate-sampler-bag So when would Champ have acquired those peewees for this bag or for the Bicentennial bags? Of course Alley closed long before 1976.