Steph

LOVE the underwater shots.

Interesting

(Catfish photo)

Is that oxblood?

Looks like some Pelts, possibly distributed by Berry Pink Full page:

good to know!

Current combined list: aggie, aggies, allies, alleys, blackies, blockbuster octopus, blockbusters, bloodies, blue candy stripes?, bolders, bullseyes, chaney alleys, Chinas, Chinees, clayies, clearies, cloudies, crockie, crockies, crokers, doughie, doughies, Englishies, flinties, glass agates, glassies, halfies, houses, kimmies, immies, mibbs, mibs, middles, miggle, miggs, migs, milkies, peedabs, peewee's, peewees, pimples, pot-eyes, pures, reallies, red eyes, red moonstone?, ringers, robin's eggs, root beer cleary, shooters, steelies, stony alleys, 3 line cleary, tolley -- 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)

1863, The Sock Stories, p. 37 (link) chaney alleys, stony alleys, glass agates, middles

I'm not familiar with the name. Thanks for sharing the link, Mark.

Hi Pat.

space jellyfish?

If I understand/remember correctly, these weren't found in a Kokomo bag but were found with an empty Koko bag or a Koko label next to them.

That's a neat set.

*happy sigh*

Seems hard to come by. Anyone have pics?

I think there were some Koko articles in the WV newsletter but, sadly, I let my subscription lapse. And I haven't seen much original koko packaging. .... *leaves to go start a thread about that*

!!!!!

Likely Kokomos

1940:

Love it!

I didn't catch any marble bouncing in this one but they mentioned adding sand, soda ash and feldspar for hardness and durability.

Thanks. ... I'm also interested in this part, "Like glass for stained-glass windows and water tumblers, marble glass has a soft lime base, which makes an immie so resilient that it will bounce from the hardest pavement without breaking." Is that hype? Were marbles stronger back then than they are now?

... and of course in case anyone is reading this without knowing the history of M.F. Christensen and Akro, it was interesting how different that was from the history as we know it today.