Steph

Good to hear!

What marbles do you think were used for that ad? White with red ribbons? Disclaimer: the Morphy ad for this box said "marbles may not be original to box" but ?

Thanks. While I'm in the neighborhood, here's another Albright ad labelled 1931. I don't know where it was published though. If those marbles need zoom:

Some zoom for the Albright display:

Akro and Albright on p. 98

From p. 87 another ad which isn't directly about marbles but which might be informative. A Reg'lar Fellers announcement. (Reg'lar Fellers is the brand on a box of marbles from Japan with a type of marbles whose age is still uncertain, as far as I know.) Note: The brand continued to at least 1938, because I just did a quick check and found a reference to a Playthings from that year which also mentioned toys related to the Reg'lar Fellers comic strip. "Many interesting tie-ups in the toy field are now in preparation and, according to Mr. Lindner, will be shortly announced," it was said. When I first noticed that, I wondered if the brand lasted until after the war. Reading that the brand was around in 1931/1932, I wonder that even more. thread with marble pics and date discussion

Thanks, Bob! Edit: The toy trade building was at 200 Fifth Avenue.

On p. 82 another Rosenthal reference, under "Trade Notes", including a Berry Pink mention (:

Non-marble-related reflections as I scan the articles looking for any references to marbles ... ... Kinda interesting to think about the explicit commercialization of Christmas as described in a trade magazine in 1931. Don't know when the commercialization started. Just kinda interesting to see the mechanics of it at this stage. ... And then when I see a statement like "Stores are going after Christmas business hammer and tongs and are leaving no stone unturned to tell the people that this year of all years Santa Claus shouldn't be allowed to forget their kiddies," I think about this being after the start of the Great Depression. ... And on a lighter note, one of the draws one department store used to get customers in was "Free Talkies Daily".

Page 25 would probably be a boring scan. It has the header, "MEMBERS OF THE TOY TRADE IN THE FIFTH AVENUE BUILIDING", so it's some kind of directory and it looks like it has room numbers. Akro Agate Co. is 420. Peltier Glass Co. is 409. Wolverine Supply & Mfg. Co. is 406 -- they have some marble connection -- maybe they just poked their head around the corner to make their marble deals.

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As to the Moonies -- Berry Pink appears to have called some Peltier Rainbos that in the 40's and/or 50's. And there was some packaging of Pelts in MK bags, or MK in Pelt bags -- can't remember which or if it was both, but I do remember crossover. So that's some of what I'm thinking of when I try to guess what MK Moonies would have been in '62.

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?