Steph

How long has "I see what you did there" been around? Just saw 'em say it on Third Rock from the Sun. So it's been around since at least 1998. I thought it was a more recent figure of speech.

In the category of strange concepts: old dishes with microwave-safe markings

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Looks quite corky to me. I don't recognize it as an Akro combo but I sure wouldn't rule it out based on the apparent structure. Of course two people with a lot more Akro experience than I have are leaning Vacor so I'm not gonna argue hard. Did you check it underwater yet? That can sometimes help you sort out things like clear and colored areas inside.

gorgeous!

Examining and photographing it underwater might reveal important clues about the structure.

Wow. What he said. ^^ Nice pictures too. Save them for posterity. For documenting your find after the marbles have gone their separate ways.

Berry Pink was from New Jersey. He worked for Morris Rosenthal, who was established in New York. (Can't remember if the Rosenthal family had also settled in New Jersey originally but I did know that once. ) Rosenthal was a marble jobber and Pink was deeply involved in that part of Rosenthal's business -- to the point that he joined the Alley company in the early 1930's. He appears to have brought his New York tastes along with him on this visits to West Virginia. (I seem to recall some unkind things were said about his tastes or attitudes.) By the mid-1930's Pink left Rosenthal and set up his own jobbering operation in New York City. Berry Pink Industries may have been selling Peltiers from the get go. I don't know if he was also still working with Alley at that time -- there was a lawsuit between him and Alley around that time -- but he was back to being on better terms with Alley later. In the late 1940's he bought Alley and turned it into Marble King. He hired Roger Howdyshell to be the plant manager (that's Beri Fox's father) to deal with the actual manufacturing over there in West Virginia and he stayed in New York handling sales and promotions. Soooo ... he liked New York and hung around there a lot of the time, but West Virginia (and Illinois) were where the marbles were being made and I don't think he had them shipped from there to New York for packaging. I think that was done in the same towns where they were manufactured. I'm pretty sure the "F.O.B." abbreviation has something to do with that -- letting people know that that's where their purchases would be shipped from.

Lentils. With sausages.

Welcome Tracye. Gotta love a good freak. That's two intros in a row from Texans. SirCray, meet Tracye. Tracye, SirCray. Have you checked out the Texas Marble Collectors Club yet? http://www.texasmarblecollectors.com/Home_Page.php

Yes, cool! And it solves a mystery for me. I have a black and white version of that ad and it puzzled me. Was looking at it again yesterday. In the b&w version some of the marble bases looked black. So I'm glad to see the color. While some of those Rainbows are interesting, at least they all look white-based. So order is restored to my world. Still wondering what "Moonies" are .... My current guess is game marbles. Does anybody here know?

That's one of those where I always wonder what Akro's name for that style was.

so educational Gotta be one of the most educational pickles ever.

Green eggs and ham? *hanging head in embarrassment because I even have to ask*

Neeeeto!!

By the way, the weather was gorgeous today. Cool(ish) and breezy. Felt like fall.

Updated link: If you happen to lose your marbles, the Vitro Agate Co. stands ready to help

This thread needs a bump. 1957: (Courtesy of Paul Germann)

Could it have been glazed and all the glaze have worn away with a remnant of color bleeding through? I had a clay boulder once which looked completely undecorated but under blacklight you could see that it once had a floral decoration.

I was born in Oklahoma, learned to talk in Texas, lived in Missouri, Maryland, North Carolina, Louisiana, before starting first grade in New Mexico. Then for second grade it was back to Texas, and then to Alabama and Kentucky and back to Alabama. Then moved to Oklahoma the day I graduated from high school. Then I went to Utah for a year-and-a-half, and then back to Oklahoma for 20 years before I moved up here to Wisconsin. One time I was talking with my father about all the places we'd lived and he said, "it's not that many -- I can still name the addresses". So he was reeling off the addresses while I counted the places on my fingers. I was up to 12 fingers when he got us back to Texas and I said, "um, Dad, I was 7 then" ... and I was able to take it from there. But I kinda squashed his "we didn't move all that much" claim.