Steph

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.

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!