Steph

I've started a thread on this before, but in that other thread I had a long list of marble names, without dates or context. Going to start again and keep better track of sources. 1918, The Judge (link) New list to add to: alleys, bloodies, bullseyes, crokers, Englishies, glassies, halfies, houses, mibbs, miggs, milkies, peewees, pimples, pures, reallies, steelies

Digging for dates. Here's a spring 1938 ad for what are probably Rainbos. How much earlier than that can we place them?

When was your previous date? How long do you think they used National boxes for? I don't know how early but for some reason I wouldn't be surprised by 1934 for rainbos, even though I think that Picture Marbles on older style Peerless Patches were still being sold after that. I'll have to dig a little to see why the year 1934 comes to mind. Would be interesting to see a string of National boxes and try to get an idea of the changes in the boxes with time. And of course would be nice for Mike to give us some years to anchor the discussion with, if possible.

Handsome shooters.

Expanding this to all Leighton ... with this little clip which appears to have been a goal which didn't happen. If I'm not mistaken, this is the year Leighton opened the Navarre plant.

Here are the National Line Bloodies we were talking about in the calendar thread ... posted some time ago by BobandPat. And the National Line box of Rainbos.

A boy and his dog. Very sweet.

why? Was this a joke for a commercial?

nice shimmer ... who made that?

Old comparison I found striking

^^ that He has the other circus items. That was a large part of why I kept hoping it might be true.

I'll try not to keep rooting for older but that circus story really is a nice touch. (:

Was looking for pix for the Boulders thread ... so I looked in a Shooters folder. And I found these which Al posted before.

Interesting

The circus story is what keeps me hoping these might be authentic old-ish marbles.

That'll wake you up!

Petrified wood?

Check it out! Marble videos! Credit goes to Bob for pointing me that way. Here's a somewhat random one. And another: One more: The main British Pathé channel on YouTube, with links to other channels. http://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe I don't know if you can search the channels specially. I just did a search for Pathe and marbles together: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pathe+marbles

Good luck.

What is the size range on the swirls in your bag(s)?