Steph

*scratches head*

Can you tell what it's a reflection of? I can see what looks like someone with long brown hair, but I could also see it as part of a house viewable through a window.

Was there someone who knew Eastern Bloc marbles? What was the gist?

I'm impressed by the hand gathers. But it's more wishful thinking than my gut. There had to be some marbles in the Eastern Bloc countries, but I have no idea what they would have looked like. Maybe after WWII they were all clay. No idea at all.

So that would be the 2nd double compartment bag I know of. Can you tell who made the marbles inside that one? Here's the one I was thinking of:

I can't remember if we heard for sure that someone was currently making marbles over there. Maybe I'm blocking it out in my continuing hope that we're finding the real deal from that part of the world. It would be so great to hear from someone there who could tell us what marbles they had access to in the 30's to 60's.

That only double compartment bag I recall seeing has Pelts in it. No, I can't recall ever having any solid information about who provided the moss agates or peewee patches which have been seen in their other containers. My theories have centered around Berry Pink's known connections with Alley and Peltier during and shortly after his time with Rosenthal, but they're still only theories.

Cool! I hadn't noticed the glow.

I heart vaseline glass.

I want to see one of those window bags in person. Or at least a pic of a real one. I wonder how many were ever bought 'coz I'm pretty sure I've never seen one. But I've hardly ever seen a double compartment bag either. As in, I've seen one but that might be all.

I may have some ads mentioning them. Plan is to bring together more Albright stuff, including stuff with CAC overlap.

Bump. I have at least one more little thing to add from the Playthings issue if I can remember how I got the scanner to work ... this is in doubt... but meanwhile here is a box to go with the ad in Post #13. http://marbleconnection.com/gallery/album/324-albright/ Plan is to start an Albright thread "soon" with these and others which may not be from the year 1931. But if anyone wants to keep adding Albright material to this thread, that's cool too.

interesting!

Not large but I like very much.

While searching for a different pic, I stumbled across this again and sometimes a pic just needs to be posted. So enjoy ....

Aw ... I was just imagining how cool it might have been to have that one in my marble bag in 1900. (:

Just show us all the pretty purples all together. *pretty please with sugar on*

That makes me want to put on knickers and a newsboy cap and knuckle down ...

And then when you have things mostly figured out you see a cat eye sell for $100 and everything gets turned upside down again.

"More complicated" is a good way to say it. Some prices will be lower than those in the Block guide. Some will be higher. And the multiplier system can really get out of whack if you try to toss in more than one feature. The multiplier calculations once gave me a $2500 estimate on a marble which I eventually sold for $80.

So much culture! I get more in this thread than anywhere else.