Steph

Vitro is looking better and better for that style. Still don't know though. Long-time mystery to me.

If you have one or more Benningtons, at least have a big one. Big marbles in with the smalls to grab attention.

Thanks, Rick. Any idea on the age of the Smokey?

It does look like a 6 fingers.

Yes, that's the word.

That's a fun pic ... whatever he's doing .....

I think so.

Lilac makes me think Alley.

That really looks like a calendar photo!

Dang! That's sharp! But weird. What was Pelt trying to do on that day?

Very short old thread on the subject: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/8778-the-nivinson-weiskopf-company/

This page says, "The NIVISON-WEISKOPF COMPANY: Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly a glass bottle manufacturer and printer of labels between the 1900s and 1980s." http://www.jdcollectorspage.com/RealOldBottles1.html That makes me wonder if they were basic clear marbles. Like for codd bottles or lithography balls for printing.

Dennis, the backlit view on yours appears to have a visible cutline which I found interesting and which might have made me think of a patch company. The other views look swirly though. The swirly views make me think your marble is a Champion.

Sometimes you get marbles together in a lot and they're such close matches that you think they must have been littermates. (Bob, this is the second pic of yours which didn't load for me today. Just the first quarter inch and then nothing else. I don't know what I'm missing. )

aggressive? LOL ... I'm confused too.

Thanks, Matt. Love to help if I can.

Dunno = I don't know Bump = add a post so that it will be back at the top of the feed in the hopes that someone else will see it and give it a shot

Hey, it's only 5 p.m. here. I'm still wide awake.

Coo? Is that a British term? Moonies are hard to identify on a computer. Turns out lots of makers had marbles with fire inside.

Dunno. But I'll bump it for you.

They're generally right a lot more often then they are wrong. But it's typically difficult to learn directly from any textbook, no? Even the best math book in the world usually needs a math teacher to help students figure out what the math book is showing them. I suppose other fields are similar. Books help but students might see things other than how they were intended and teachers (other collectors) help sort it all out. So which book was that one?

MFC closed in 1917. The machine Akro patented in 1915 was not significantly different from the machine MFC used. Horace Hill took the machine designs from MFC and tweaked them -- not to improve the design but to be able to claim that he had a machine sufficiently different so that he could get his own patent on the tech he stole from MFC. It was later determined by a court that his machine wasn't different enough from MFC's and Akro shouldn't have gotten that patent. If I recall correctly. Even if the U.S. did help Japan out in the postwar era maybe the help took the form of machine designs, not necessarily the machines themselves. Again, not sure where I got this impression, but for some reason I thought that part of the help the U.S. gave to other countries may have been in disseminating Hartford Empire tech. If that's the case with Japan then it could be that the help the U.S. gave to Japan was to help them change over from transitionals which they may have had pre-war to gob fed marbles postwar. And then Japan quickly jumped from that to cat's eyes.

The book could be erroneous. Or I suppose the light could have made the mossy base look orange. I guess it's possible. No mossy base on yours. Here are some Moss Agates.

Yeah, short with slight curve, with orange glow, could be Akro Moonie. And yeah black dots could be debris.

Thanks! Oh yeah, it was Darla who provided the name for Sara's. Not Dani.