Steph

Looked like a photo to me, with a sort of display design drawn around it.

Drumroll please! hehe Gonna post them in page order as I find them. (There are some missing pages. Use your imagination about what marvels might have been removed.) First one I find is p. 14, a Rosenthal ad. Sorry it's crooked. I just got the scanner set up and I'm trying not to be too much of a perfectionist.

P.s., do some of those look like colored ribbons on black (or other dark color) bases or is that just my imagination on overdrive. Some zoom:

Got the scanner set up (gosh that was complicated!). Did a test run on a Feb. 1962 Playthings. What would MK Moonies have been in 1962? They're not ringing a bell so my guess would translucent Pelts -- maybe Pelt Bloodies.

Congratulations! Thanks for the pix!

Which one is a bead? The white with blue spots?

I was wondering how mica could make the effect shown in the metallic looking marbles. Took me a long time to put it together and realize that hot glass is hot and mica melts.

When does the dancing start? I want video!

Party hearty!

They have 1941 in their name. That makes me think it's a septuagenarian who is brave enough to list stuff on ebay and I just hope they figure things out.

Just as a technical vocabulary point, when I learned "tight line" it referred to a cork with a lot of twists. So it would have a lot of lines squeezed tightly together. Not just one line which happened to be thin.

Monster! Were plain clay marbles used for carpet bowling?

One has a big chip and at least some of the visible pits on others look rounded -- not the sharp edge I would be looking for as a sign of polishing. Is that interpretation of "tight-line" widely used?

I'll take a gross of each. Great to do business with you!

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Neat! Hope your show goes great.

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Not aware of a Florida connection. That might be the guy who "sold" marbles which were already in private collections -- using photos from sites like Morphy and Joemarbles. I think maybe that guy started in WV and moved to Florida.

Cute title. How did you get the silvery parts? Are you allowed to divulge?

As you can see from the final bid -- 1,280.00 even with all the damage -- those boxes are pretty special. They're rare enough that even some of the more seasoned collectors are in doubt when they see it.

Not on my end. That name and location don't look familiar to me.

Striking difference. I totally see why people would want this done. Everyone else just needs to be educated and not spend a lot of money before they know what's what. Do these appear significantly different under a blacklight after you get done working on them?

The boxes from the auction: Some which Brian posted awhile back: A Pavcraz box -- one of several variations: A view of the inside of a Pavcraz box can be enlightening also but that's all I have for right now.

My initial impression was heck-if-I-know. I was tricked by Pavcraz boxes originally. Then when comparing them to the real deal the fakery was obvious. But I still need to be reminded what the real deal looks like. My 2nd impression after going through some old files is that the ones in this auction seem like the real deal. I'm still going through more old files to try to find the boxes I used for my initial comparison. But for the moment, my thought is the auction is okay.

How many of those guys were made?