Steph

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I called the U.S. Patent Office. The kind lady at the Trademark extension helped me search for it, and in this country that number is associated with a 1926 picture of a Longhorn. So that's a little bit of help. Need to look elsewhere for that registration.

No! Just trying to spice up my winter (indoor, at home) exercise routine.

I have no standing jump height. None. Okay maybe an inch. I am capable of leaving the ground. Maybe two inches if I squat low first.

I sort of fudged that. I was thinking mostly of post-WWII, but by "beyond the wars" I meant "apart from the wars". The more normal, less heavy, little cultural details like we know about when postal codes started being used here.

I will but I sure would welcome a fellow searcher on this one. Which country would that trademark have been in: No. 208836 ... and how can we search for the record? During which decade would Japan have had two digit telephone numbers? Are those two words at the end part of the telephone number? -- TEL. NO. 59 Kawachi Saraike, like how in America we used to say a word at the beginning of the number? Need someone familiar with mid-1900's Japan beyond the wars.

I bid on it. I was not alone. Bid was cancelled, which is what you have to do in order to end the listing.

Anyone know how to search for old trade marks?

Nice!

"Bloodies" stayed in Peltier's line for decades. You could buy boxes with assorted color rainbos. Or boxes with only red. So, you could say Pink pushed them. (He was affiliated with Peltier.) But I don't think that was his idea, I mean I don't think it was original on his part. I should look up the exact story before I say that this is one of the examples where he took more credit than was due. But he did have a tendency to tell whoppers and other companies were aware of the popularity of red. MFC's brick line. Akro's Cardinals. Vitro's All-Reds (the 1930's version).

Lots of clues for searching with.

ooh ooh ooh ooh !!!!!!! Exciting!

I wish I had some clear rolling pins. Attractive vintage mix in here -- maybe 1930's to 1960's. Nothing standing out as high dollar but between the rolling pins and the numbers of marbles, there is some monetary value there.

I can imagine traveling through that tunnel. Actually it reminds me of http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/stunning-caves-in-an-icelandic-glacier/ss-BBhVAFl

ahdorable!

That one spells Christmas.

The flameyness makes me think of Alley. The apparent translucence of the base glass (if I'm seeing that right) makes me think of Heaton. (Could make me think if Cairo Novelty, but they're famous for a different type of swirl shape.) I'll put a tentative Heaton guess in. But I don't know. Normal size?

These are called Benningtons. Well, at least some are. Benningtons are famous for their eyes. You can see two nice ones on the right end of the middle row. On the top row, the two on the right look like they might not be Benningtons but some other kind of ceramic. Maybe.

There is a story about Berry Pink doing on the spot surveys with boys. Taking marbles out of his pocket and letting them choose and that's how he knew that red was most popular .... or something like that ......

Thanks, Edna.

P.s., those are probably good marble books to start with but at least two of them are ones I don't have so I can't compare them with the ones I do have. The kids books are ahdorable!

I uploaded more of Bigc's pics into an album in the gallery. I'm still a bit punchy from a couple of busy days so I'm just gonna post the album for now and hopefully others will browse it and maybe add some helpful comments. There's a mixture of old and new, with many common, and maybe some not quite so common. This photo, for example, has some vintage marbles in it. The middle jar has many Marble Kings in it, which are on the common side but still are classics. (It looks like it may also have some other vintage patches in it.)

Marbles counter weighted repeating mouse trap Also mentioning marbles 1936: Rodent trap 1987: Animal trap

From p.33 of the Robert W. Kellogg Co. Gifts catalog. It's only about 2 inches wide in person.

Are they both corkscrews? The marble on the left looks a little odd to me but probably it's just the angles. I see why you wanna say Popeye for the one on the right but I'm not sure I'm seeing the make-up right. Is it a clear base? Does it have white filaments. Or is it a red base? This is a case were I might like to see flash photos, or underwater photos, to try to get a better look at what is happening inside the mibs.