Steph

Ric, remember the Big Value boxes with Alleys? http://marbleconnection.com/topic/19033-1953/

Cute.

I figured they were Pelts in the Champion and Big Boy bags, but now that you noticed the Sure Shot, I'm remembering the Alley Big Boys. So maybe some combo of the marbles Berry Pink might have jobbered.

From Recreation, Volume 22, pp 315, 316, April 1905 Includes references to names from the 1840's. Also tells a game to play with large marbles (link) potashes, commons, nickers, white alley, man, men, shooters, chinee, agate, cornelian, glass agate, Tom, Tom troller, bamboozler, commies, combos, alley, blue alley, blood alley, taw, ducks, plasters, chinas, crystals, potteries, alleys, megs Current combined list: agate, aggie, aggies, allies, alley, alleys, bamboozler, blackies, blockbuster octopus, blockbusters, blood alley, bloodies, blue alley, blue candy stripes?, bolders, 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, man, megs, men, mibbs, mibs, middles, miggle, miggs, migs, milkies, nickers, peedabs, peewee's, peewees, pimples, plasters, pot-eyes, potashes, potteries, pures, reallies, red eyes, red moonstone?, ringers, robin's eggs, root beer cleary, shooters, steelies, stony alleys, taw, 3 line cleary, 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)

I didn't notice that one! You guessing Alleys there?

Well, you surely know my theory about oxblood being associated with blue glass. I've spouted off about it enough.

Inside an O' Boy gift box

What seems odd about it? A little stray brown?

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*