Steph

"flower" ... new marble word to me Thanks for the eye candy.

I'm not inclined to believe that happened. However, I'm interested in whether others think it's likely, so thanks. Here is the kind of packaging which I think all three of those makers might be able to be found in: Marble King ad from 1953 with Alleys Peltier and MK did share marbles during the poly bag years, so I would be intrigued but not completely surprised to see MKs in a poly bag with Champion or Champion Jr. on it. I would be surprised to find MKs in leftover Champion or Champion Jr. mesh bags.

That's adorable! Nice find.

Ah. Well, still interesting!

Fun clay.

I got the 3 minute figure from a newspaper article I was uncomfortable linking. But judge it based on the times it was from. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=18920131&id=1KMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QZgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5665,3749224

Three November 1941 articles archived at Joemarbles.com, from Hobbies: The Magazine For Collectors. Old Glass Marbles, by Thelma Shull Marble Collecting, by Violet Bramer Smith Notes On Marble History, by Mrs. Mary Metzerott

Summary: The Akro technology was stolen from M.F. Christensen by Horace Hill in 1912. Hill had the audacity to try to patent the stolen machinery. His application was turned back once for not being sufficiently different from MFC's. He tweaked it and tried again and was finally granted a patent but not a very broad patent. He only got credit for a small change. Almost all the elements of the mechanical creation of spheres, both glass and otherwise, were already well-established. So in 1927, the court ultimately said that Peltier's machine did not fall into the narrow zone which Hill's patent covered. Peltier was using M.F. Christensen technology possibly with Peltier's own tweaks, not the tweaks introduced by Hill.

These aren't the first or best articles I've seen but they'll start the thread. 1975 (Enjoying the candle swirls)

I just learned that in 1975 if you collected marbles you might have a "single point candle swirl".

(p.s., I agree with the Sky above) Names from 1927 tiger-eyes, bowlers, agates, glassies, sugar-tops, peewees, mibs, mossies, knicks, bullseyes, plumpers, shooters Current combined list: agate, agates, aggie, aggies, allies, alley, alleys, bamboozler, blackies, blockbuster octopus, blockbusters, blood alley, bloodies, blue alley, blue candy stripes?, bolders, bowlers, bullseyes, chaney alleys, chinas, Chinas, chinee, Chinees, clayies, clearies, cloudies, combos, commies, commons, cornelian, crockie, crockies, crokers, crystals, doughie, doughies, ducks, Englishies, flinties, glass agate, glass agates, glassies, halfies, houses, kimmies, klogknocker (sp? clogknocker?), immies, knicks, man, megs, men, mibbs, mibs, middles, miggle, miggs, migs, milkies, mossies, nickers, peedabs, peewee's, peewees, pimples, plasters, plumpers, pot-eyes, potashes, potteries, pures, reallies, red eyes, red moonstone?, ringers, robin's eggs, root beer cleary, shooters, steelies, stony alleys, sugar-tops, taw, 3 line cleary, tiger-eyes, tolley, Tom, Tom troller, white alley, -- including all the spelling variants and singulars and plurals even if that may seem silly -- just in case -- the two question marks so far are because I wasn't sure whether the color was part of the name or just a description -- some names may not represent what we use the words for now -- for example "blackies" may be different from Vitro's version Current foreign terminology: gudes (Brazil), Torrah (Africa), bowls (England), bolitas (South America), "kicking the marbles" (China)

Here's a little bit of color connected with the lawsuit Akro filed against Pelter.

I have only seen a pic. .... and some ads which looked like they could be for it. Or for similar gift packaging. I don't know that I ever saw an illustration in the ads. Can't remember the year for sure. 1926 is what comes to mind. Maybe I can find those, just for curiosity sake. Marquee Marbles pic: Edit: Yes, I found gift boxes with several combinations of items along with ties and marbles, from 1926 to at least the early 30's. I found Akro Agate mentioned once specifically in 1926. Not with that exact combo of items. Don't recall a notebook mentioned in any ad. Some of the items mentioned were pens, razors and harmonicas. Not sure what else. Again, may update.

My thought is that the ones with Marble King are backfilled by people who associated Berry Pink with the Marble King company, not understanding that Pink's use of the Marble King brand came long before Marble King company marbles started to be made. Any disagreement?

I cook Thai rice noodles now and then. http://www.thaitable.com/thai/ingredient/thai-rice-noodles Gave up on traditional pasta long ago. Will eat some of hubby's but won't cook my own.

Have you checked into ebay's policies regarding auctions for charity? I _think_ I have heard of them cancelling auctions which were said to be for charity because they do it in an ebay-approved way. If you've already gone through all that, ignore me. But better safe than sorry.

It appears that three minutes would be a fast time for that game.

Oh man, what a wild one. They kept going all night. It was great. I better get to bed now to try to get at least a couple of hours sleep, eh?

Thanks, everyone. The cats are still playing coy, pretending like nothing is up.

Still my favorite: http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/4377229/

I thought I had escaped notice! Thank you. ♥♥♥ Would you believe not a single one of my cats wished me happy birthday. Maybe they're planning a surprise party for later.

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Hi Dave. How are you? I would expect them to all have Pelts. Champion was a Pelt packaging name when Berry Pink was jobbering for them. Later, if I recall correctly, he started jobbering Pelts in a very similar box but it said "Marble King" instead of "Champion". And it's possible that some of those boxes which say Marble King on them may have been sold with Alleys.