Steph

Irritable Male Syndrome? I didn't make that up! lol

Here is another nice stock certificate photo. This one from Brian. Is it the same certificate? And some MFC cullet And a map of the factory. I think the date on this is 1916.

Along with the MFC stock certificate photos, Ron sent these of a Navarre certificate. What other Navarre marbles/items do you have?

Here are pix of a stock certificate from Ron. At least I think it is a single stock certificate. Views of the front and back? I should have asked before I posted but I keep putting it off, so here it is.

A shipping label

These pictures are labeled with AZ ... which might mean AuctionZip. No National visible in the available pictures but it's interesting. And now I see a G. Now I don't know what to think. "Later" Rainbos in a Gropper box? ??? But whatever this box means, the National Bloodies box still seems right.

Found it. I have it labeled BobandPat.

I just had a mental flash of a National box with bloodies. Did I manufacture a false memory? Or are those for real? Off for a photo hunt. I need to index my pictures.

What is the current state of the research on how large Ravenswoods could be?

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.