Steph

There were a couple of Lifetime movies I really liked and I might have remembered their names last decade. I'll have to go with It's a Wonderful Life.

Stocking stuffers! ! Happy New Year!

They're adorable! What a great find.

Good call!

I wrote the seller to let 'em in on the history in case they didn't know.

Simpson's Celebrated Slides are showing pre-WWI dates on Google. And the Quechua Boys Playing Marbles, Peru scene was dated at circa 1905 on ebay.

Wowzer! Those are fantastic! Check this page out for the "ALL THE WINNERS" slide: LUCERNA the Magic Lantern Web Resource - EATON, W.A. (1848-1915) Sounds like the slide was shown to the audience while someone read the poem. Another link ... where you might be able to get the text: The Magic Lantern Society, Slide Readings Library

Nice wild one.

Intense!

I hope everyone gets something they want for Christmas!

Thanks! It's kinda fun to try to figure out how those would have been arranged. Interesting that the Moss Agates are of the "exquisite" variety and not the patch variety. And the five single color boulders are so unexpected.

lol -- old men can be so cute.

It's gorgeous. Very handsome. No idea about it though.

For some reason I can't open the thumbnails. Is it just me? (Yes, I have a couple of special marbles somewhere that I look forward to finding again someday. )

Not sure what to think. Banks do have business dealings with the gov't. Gee, no, hard to understand why someone would have thought a tribute to veterans needed a disclaimer like that.

Here's a little technical information about the chinas and glazing: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/15447-lets-see-some-marble-pics/?p=133871

Lutz???!!! Would have been neato without the lutz. I don't remember ever hearing of them with lutz. But maybe I just haven't paid that much attention since I've assumed I'll never get one.

Thanks for the Paden City info. That's what I sorta remembered but it's so hard to mesh the marble structure with other Paden City marbles, isn't it. In the 30's he was trying to find ways to sell more Pelts, so I figured he gave away Rainbos. He told a story of holding out handfuls of marbles to see what the kids chose, and red was by far the most popular. That could explain why Pelt had assorted boxes and boxes just of bloodies. But someone once -- was it Lloyd -- showed a picture of a Berry Pink agate. If I'm remembering right. And I've wondered if he was giving those away to kids before his Marble King days. Or if those were souvenirs for adults. Has anyone ever seen more than one of those?

I'm still a little confused about the story on these.

Ahdorable!

Cool twist with the Carnelian and Imperial labels.