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Marble Vocabulary From The Past & From Other Countries
Steph replied to Steph's topic in Steph's Study Hall
No idea on what Englishies might be? From 1960, "tolley", the name for the shooter. This page says the name of the game played at Tinsley Green is Ring Taw. Current list: alleys, bloodies, bullseyes, crokers, Englishies, glassies, halfies, houses, mibbs, miggs, milkies, peewees, pimples, pures, reallies, steelies, tolley -
Those are some nice ones, Bo.
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Here are some Barberton marbles Road Dog posted a long time ago.
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Is that exotic? No, don't hit me! I'm serious! It's wild.
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Cool. I don't think many of those escaped back in the days when kids actually needed their marbles to be round.
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It's lovely. What is it? Edit: Ah ... I just read the name of the image.
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Hi! That's very cool. Would love to hear anything you know about Ravenswood and its marbles.
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Yes. I didn't mean to say that Akro was the only one who made it intentionally. I just meant that some people accidentally produced what others made on purpose.
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I think that others accidentally made what Akro made on purpose. Copper-based ingredients were used for oxblood and they were used for glass of other colors.
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Roughly How Many Colored Glass Cateyes Here.
Steph replied to hdesousa's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
I have blue based cage style cats. (Thanks BJ) -
Doh! How could I not have even come close to thinking of that?!
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To me it looks like copper-based red glass -- the kind which may show with greater frequency in aqua glass. I think copper or cupric oxide or whatever the right term is, was used in making the green glass and it manifested itself as what we call oxblood on Akros. Sorry, Hansel, I think those links and pix are gone for real.
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By George, I think you've got it!
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Now Look Mate
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kewl
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Roughly How Many Colored Glass Cateyes Here.
Steph replied to hdesousa's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
What colors of bases have you seen? I kinda sorta remember blue. ... maybe? The only pic I can lay my hands on at the moment are these amber based ones. -
Beautimous.
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lol ... you're so cute. And the marbles aren't bad either.
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Escapade? Meaning dug? or some other adventure ...
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This could be fun.
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The figure of speech "flying trip" has been around since at least the early 1800's. Thomas Jefferson made mention of someone taking a flying trip in 1806. ( : ETA: George Washington made plans for a flying trip in 1795.
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Anyone see this before? http://www.ebay.com/itm/350465887221
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http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/94025