Steph

O . . . . . . . . . M . . . . . . . . . G I always wanted a swiss army knife too, and then I found one in my desk in my office at school, and I had no idea how it got there. Did the old occupant of the office stick it in the back of the drawer and forget it, and then did it take years to work up to the front of the drawer where I found it ... or did the janitor find it and just put it in my drawer (we had a cool janitor) ... or what .... ???? So eneeway I have one now.

Very interesting .... I had a mystery marble -- a very ugly marble -- which had a lot of gold-looking material in it, but it was deep inside and on the backside of a really ugly patch. Did I mention the marble was ugly? It was kind of moldy looking. My best guess for my marble was that it was foreign. A tiny bit master-y. But mostly moldy.

beautiful!

Well with my newly found expertise (cough cough lol cough) I'm going to guess "slightly indented" and smooth might mean hot punched. It just makes so much sense.

Aw, the link didn't come through.

Would love to see 'em!

Pretty. That article Galen linked mentioned something called hot punching. Would you say yours has a "slightly tapered hole"?

William Shatner Bohemian Rhapsody

way cool

Oh neat. I had a corkscrew bead once which I didn't hang onto because I let it get dinged up and I didn't like being reminded that the damage was my fault. Wish I still had it. I don't think it was for trade. Just mentioning it.

And now I have more copies of the first two episodes -- this time in the January and February 1931 issues of American Boy. Or more specifically "The Youth's Companion combined with American Boy". <3 So neat how dedicated Akro was to advertising. Packaging and branding was Akro's business from the beginning, and we have a lot of history because of their advertising savvy. Thank you, Akro, in spite of Horace Hill.

G'luck Sami. Looks great.

Welcome Danny!

amazing

That first one made my heart skip a beat too.

Pelt Christmas trees have white bases.

So fwiw, I see red ribbons on the left on both top and bottom. With a little bit of an ambiguous smudge between them. So red-green-red on top, red-green on bottom. And then more ambiguity about what happens on the right.

I don't see a flip flop. I still think modern MK. C'est la guerre.

Here is the scale MarbleAlan used: http://www.grandpamarble.com/html/grading.html Some people said his scale wasn't strict enough. I'll say it's a good line to hold. Anything less stringent than that seems meaningless to me.

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Well, it's not a Pelt. And it's not a clean P&R pattern so I'd expect that to affect value.

Does this work? Sistersville MARBLE FESTIVAL BROCHURE 2013.pdf I couldn't open Brett's .pdf either, so I downloaded his .doc and converted it in open office. So not sure if mine is the same as his .pdf.

Not Peltier. Might not even be a Watermelon. If it's a newer MK patch, it doesn't qualify for the name. Edit: I rushed to the link so fast that I didn't see your comment on the date. -- to me the pattern did seem more recent. Edit #2: Didn't seem totally standard but closer to the Color 1 - Color 2 - Color 1 model than to the classic MK Patch and Ribbon pattern. Not sure what to make of the base glass. Been awhile since I fished out my modern MK patches. Suppose I should've done that before replying, or at least before the 2nd edit. *sheepish*