Steph

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.

After I shared the size, Sue said she was sticking with her gut. The place were I posted it was the Glass Addiction facebook page. So far the consensus over there is that it looks older. Which interests me because that group specializes in modern marbles so basically they're saying it doesn't quite look like it belongs with what they make and collect.

Hunting for the bike shop article to see if I just imagined it and found a page full of marble news which mentioned that 1/2 inch was a popular size for steelies in 1928 ... fwiw. And the auto salvage guy donated 24 steelies for tourney prizes. Said they were valued at 6 cents each. Another stray, useless, tangential thought ... I don't know how it would have been calculated or paid to him ... but didn't Martin Christensen retain the right to part of the profits for steel balls made after he sold his patent for making them, back around 1900? It was said he only sold 80% of the patent. I can't remember if I've seen anyone explain how that arrangement worked. But it secured his family's financial future before he started on his marble making venture.

While I was trying to find a particular steelie reference for Bob's thread, I stumbled across this ad. I also have another one from the same month with different graphics.

Picture perfect!

Spill!

I'm thinking of something I read in a newspaper from the time of MFC.

In the olden days, kids would go to bike shops to get their steelies. Coz that's who had the ball bearings.

Steelies!

Thank you for sharing this news. Condolences to Joe's family.

They're not fancy but the colors are nice. What size are they?

What size?

Is the pink ribbon metallic?

I'll fix it.

Agreed. I would call Stefan's cat's eyes.