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    Interesting.
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    James Taylor, Never Die Young
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    That is teh awesome!
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    LOL!
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    Food

    Steph replied to I'llhavethat1's topic in The Lounge

    My pseudo-Asian meals include a little peanut butter and soy sauce. Well, a lot of soy sauce after cooking is done, but a little soy sauce while cooking. Takes a bit of effort to get the peanut butter to spread through the whole dish and not clump but I like. Mixed it with a coupla eggs today and poured that over frying cabbage. Some people joke about peanut butter omelettes. I'm serious about it.
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    Bump for the neat idea.
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    Definitely!
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    Water or oil can temporarily do the trick.
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    I hear the in room trading is a lot of folks' favorite part. It's what it sounds like. People get to the show early. Sometimes two days before the official show starts. They visit in each others' rooms and check out the marbles. Buying and selling can go on then. Be sure to bring a flashlight in case the lamps aren't bright enough.
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    Hi Flyball. Welcome. Gonna move this to a new thread so that more people might check in on it! Lots of helpful people would be glad to walk you around your first show, I'm sure.
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    Super!
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    Love it!
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    Thank you for sharing your findings.
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    What an intricate sulphide. Congratulations. (p.s. and I like the Sureshot box too -- the auction description says Heaton Agates, but I personally would assume Alley until I heard otherwise from a select group of trusted individuals)
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    Some Perfectly Timed Pictures
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    LOL Mark! (Condolences to your wife. ) Bob, I've also had trouble trying to use special characters. Not sure why it doesn't work.
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    Very lovely.
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    Look at all those exquisite moss agates!
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    The date I wrote down for this ad was March 1892. I think from the Butler Brothers catalog. This might be getting close to yours in size. "Extra Large Spangles .... big as a hen's egg". (Spangle was the old name for onionskin.) If I'm reading it correctly, a dealer would have bought a dozen extra large marbles for 75 cents. So 6 or 7 cents per marble for the dealer. And then whatever the markup would be ....
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    Here is an 1896 ad from the Chicago Tribune. 25 glass marbles for 5 cents. I'm sure these would have been regular playing sized marbles and I don't know how the price would translate to very large marbles. Or how the price would compare to marbles sold 20 years earlier. But this a little something and I might still be able to come up with older and/or bigger.
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    I think it might only have been a few cents. The ad I'm looking at to make that guess was from a catalog for dealers from 1900 or so, so I'm fudging here, and I'll try to look for some better information. Or maybe Bob or someone has the information handy. As awesome as it is, it might have been as inexpensive as candy. Very cheap labor in Germany from what I understand. It was made by hand, not machine. There are modern videos available where people use what is probably a similar technique. And Paul Baumann's book, Collecting Antique Marbles, has some drawings and photographs showing the process -- at least in the 4th edition, which is the one I'm holding, and I bet in earlier editions.
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    Hello Mark. Great heirloom. For some reason, the earliest date I associate with that style of marble is 1856. Not sure quite why that date sticks out in my mind, but it might be when a certain tool was invented related to the manufacture of glass marbles. Or maybe the beginning of one of the famous marble making factories. It was made in Germany. I'm less sure about the name of the style. I think maybe 4-panel onionskin. One of these days I really need to learn those names. Someone else should be by shortly to set that part of the story straight.
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    How cute!
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    Interesting graphics on this colorful box from ebay auction of calvinandhobbsplace The Soldiers of the Queen, Infantry of the Line. England expects that every man will do his duty.
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