Steph

Love it. Hey Mike, you have anything on the dates of these?

Thanks for bumping this, Rich. It's intriguing but I don't know much about ordinary carpet balls, much less unusual ones.

That's an interesting point -- about the rainbos. How does this box compare to those containing NLR's? And is it believed that rainbos were never sold in a box of 100 shaped like that?

The offering looks Pelty.

lol ... are you thinking of Match Game by any chance?

hmmm ... lack of traction seems like a possible problem

Here's a screenshot:

They still do for me. Google "Harry F. Unley" and see if you can get to them that way.

I was under the impression -- and have probably stated it as something akin to fact -- that marble vending machines weren't specially marked as being for marbles. I knew that in the 1940's and later, ads were run for vending machines suitable for marbles. It looked like they were pushing a new idea -- to try to keep their machines full during wartime shortages of sugar and ball gum, but I thought those were multipurpose machines, for gum or marbles or whatever. In 1929, though, they actually had machines specially marked for marbles. http://aa.arcade-museum.com/Automatic-Age-1929-09/Automatic-Age-1929-09-051.pdf

I'll move my next discovery to another thread so I don't hijack this one!

It's Harry: http://aa.arcade-museum.com/Automatic-Age-1930-04/Automatic-Age-1930-04-038.pdf and one month earlier: http://aa.arcade-museum.com/Automatic-Age-1930-03/Automatic-Age-1930-03-102.pdf p.s., I just noticed the reference to using marbles in ball gum machines. That would make this the earliest mention I recall seeing of that. p.p.s. Duh, this is a magazine for machines. And check out the mention of the "Simpson Marble Vender". And the Master and the Advance.

This pic didn't show up:

Not sure it would be that closely related but it's pretty cool.

Nox your blox off?

They love their warmed up dry food. I have to remember not to get it too hot.

Cool, thanks. I have some ephemera I need to post. From three sources so I've psyched myself out over organizing it. lol, I'm silly.

Thanks to you guys, by kitty cats got mildly microwaved dry food this morning. Mmmm, aromatic.

Found it! http://www.ebay.com/itm/111321610240

Wow @ the bag and the marbles. When I plug in that number it says 0 results. An earlier screen I get suggests that someone pulled the auction. Strange. I'm glad you got the pic!

There are some splotchy ones I guessed were Asian. But the twists seem like they might be different here. ... or maybe I just never noticed them before.

The link didn't go to an auction for me. Did you save the pictures?

I'm glad. When you didn't report, I worried you were disappointed, but I had to ask anyway.

Update? Did you have any luck?

His account was hacked before. The first time I got a fishy email from him, I was able to write him and let him know. Now we can't.