Steph

Good marketing often makes the difference. Bob (nutz4lutz) had a winning formula and got very good results with Jabos years ago when that wasn't easy to do.

That pontil definitely needs some work. .... a stranger once offered me some nature-made Australian marbles as a gift. I turned the offer down because I had emailed her purely for information and didn't want her to think I had any ulterior motives. I hope I didn't hurt her feelings and sometimes I think about them and sorta wish I had one but it seemed the right decision at the time.

That Mickey is very cute.

Do you remember honeybern?

Another favorite obscure topic of mine --- the Reg'lar Fellers connection to marbles.

Hadn't thought much about that.

You have some stumpers, Jeroen.

special assortment, very nice selection

Well, now the old ones are deleted. (:

fantastic Very creative.

wowowow

Imagine the butterflies which will come out of those ....

?????

Had no idea Master did one of those!

Sorta reminds me a lightning strike ... only it's a flaming meteor strike.

^^ that! I don't remember ever seeing one like it. It's fantastic.

50 cents.

It has pontils. Or at least one. It's smoothed out though.

Time to google l'histoire des billes.

There are two big questions -- who in Europe might have had the technology? Or who in America might have exported them? But that adds a third question -- why an American company may have exported marbles which looked a little different from the lines we recognize most easily ?

Group effort for sure! Thanks all. (:

Wow ... that makes my cheeks pucker like I just bit a lemon ... (but that's good ). What is it?

Check the Blue Skies and Blush thread now .... Alley's Blue Skies And Blush Lines

Cool. The article should not be difficult to reconstruct now. I think that may leave only two pics to import from the newsletter.