Steph

Hello! Thank you very much for weighing in on this one.

Hello Stefan! Nice to meet you!

It's a song from Due South, a series I just discovered. The series started out as a joint Canadian and U.S. show in 1993 (aired on CTV and CBS) but was cancelled by CBS twice and ended up as a Canadian and British show. Despite all the juggling and cancelling they got four seasons out of it and I'm enjoying it greatly. Plus Paul Gross is a total babe. Scott Bakula has competition.

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When I was young, the smell of bacon foiled many of my attempts to be a vegetarian.

Cool! This is brand new info for me.

Is that the same red as the one with three views in the first post? With creases like those, I tend to think Japanese. As to the Figure 8, usually they're two color marbles ... like white ribbons on a blue base, for example. Figure 8 refers to how the ribbons angle in toward each other at the seams instead of being as nearly parallel as Peltier Rainbo ribbons might be. They'd be non-US marbles. But I'm not sure where they're believed to have been made.

Nice finds! I think European for sure on the wire pull. Might be Dutch. That blue/yellow/red on white at the top of your first picture is quite interesting to me. Looks like Figure 8. Not sure I've seen those colors on one before though. Nifty. And the red with the nine and tail is sweet. About any as-mades, I'm afraid the reflections might be getting in the way of the features I'm supposed to see. I'll stop talking now.

Looks like something to string on the Christmas tree!

Santa is here!

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!