Steph

What does the cover on your 250 box look like? Here's a 250 box from a 2008 Morphy sale which I labeled as 1946-ish. (A 1946 Playthings ad follows.)

Great. I'll use this post as a reminder.

The green one is cooler than clay.

Doesn't seem particular cool compared with either the glass or ceramic marbles in the same box with it. It has some spots where it's not perfectly rounded but I don't see what I would call facets. So even though it's still in my "old" box now, I'll probably move it soon to a separate box for more modern mineral spheres.

My initial response is that Akro boxes came with different configurations of marbles over the years. In this ad it says, "52 of our synthetic moss agates". The patch-style moss agates are pictured. I'm pretty sure I've seen them posted with the fancier swirly moss agates, and maybe with corks, and maybe with moonies, and don't remember believing all of those to have been backfilled. And I think the number of marbles in the boxes may also have varied. (Edit: I think this particular ad page is from around 1934, but the picture might be from earlier in the 1930's.)

Wouldn't buy. I don't recognize any marbles in that bunch which would make me get past the condition of the lot.

Ray Milland and Peter Falk ... does it get any better than that?

So what's the coldest you get in your part of the world?

I just moved a lot of threads to Marble Friends Memorial. Since we start those threads in the main area and try to leave them for awhile it's easy to forget to move them. I did a search for "condolences" in hopes that would bring up threads which were missed. I got several. If you can think of any which still need to be moved, let me know. Same goes for threads which you'd like to see archived.

See you Seahawks fans in Seattle next week. P.s., I love that the SEC got upset right out of the national championships.

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Yep!

Is that an Akro olive?

Bump with a cookies and cream suggestion ?

20 degrees here. So nice.

The Patriots-Ravens game was fantastic. Even though that means my Packers could have to face the Pats ... assuming we get that far.

"The Pleasures of Memory, a Poem", Samuel Rogers, 1792 .... On yon gray stone, that fronts the chancel-door, Worn smooth by busy feet now seen no more, Each eve we shot the marble thro' the ring, When the heart danc'd, and life was in its spring, Alas! unconscious of the kindred earth, That faintly echoed to the voice of mirth. .... (full poem)

I know that people mainly talk about "real steelies" as not being ball bearings because there are some special hollow ones which are distinctive, and it's pretty hard to know whether a ball bearing was ever used as a marble. But ball bearings really were steelies too. Which probably almost everybody knows. I just heard something about them which made me want to say it out loud. This first clip was from a big spread in the sports section in 1928 about a marble tournament and marbles in general. Lots of steelies offered as prizes, more than just the 24 mentioned here. Other prizes included "glassies", clothes and baseball equipment. There were four different classes of play (Expert, Average, Beginners and Steelie). In addition to the other prizes there was an award of $1 in each class for the "best loser". This clip was from the time when bike shops might have been carrying the less expensive and more reliably made bearings made possible by Martin Christensen's invention.

Anyone have the means to post a range of chocolates?

Glad I didn't chuck it in with the game marbles. Looked like a game marble but something held me back.

It doesn't make sense to me for ox to be on a white patch though on a Vitro. For makers like Vitro and Peltier I associate ox with the colors which were created with copper. I can't remember if I've seen exceptions. And there are striations on it which make it look like it could have been dug. That opens the door for a strange Akro.

I'm jelly! I love St. Mary's.

Dang! What else could it be if not Vitro?

Not a hint of light, Galen. Thanks, Danny. It's so shiny and essentially single color. I thought about stone before but never really believed it. Couldn't tell from coldness or weight, not in hand. And I don't have a scale for weighing things precisely.