Steph

That's the first I heard about those being newer. I'd like to hear more.

Incredible ....

Nice! Some other nice albums in the gallery too. I used to notice the additions more often when the homepage showed the last five uploads. Need to check there more often.

Memo from Dog to Master In Re: Cat To: Master of the house From: Dog Subject: Cat Master: The cat is despicable. She doesn't do any tricks and never comes when you call and I've been there and I know she can hear you. We need to face facts: It's time to get rid of the cat. Before the cat's arrival, meals were very festive times. I would sit and stare attentively at your lips, trembling slightly and drooling. You would play the game of pretending to be cross and demand that I leave the area, but whenever you cooked dinner your children would slip me food under the table. Now, though, the cat is allowed to jump on the table - actually physically walk on the table! You don't yell at the cat, you just pick her up and put her back on the floor, and I know you don't see it, but she always gives me a haughty look as she walks past me. And speaking of meals, I have always been satisfied to eat the gritty pellets of meat by-products you bring home in the giant bags, right? Have I ever once, ever, failed to finish a meal? But now I find out that the cat is being served lobster and salmon and crab - and she never consumes all of it! This means there are little containers of delectable snacks lying around and how can I be blamed for making sure they get eaten? Why do you get so mad? As long as the pet food is going to the pets, isn't that what's important? Then there's play time. I think we can clearly see that I am a big dog, descended from a noble line of hunters accustomed to chasing prey and attacking it. Haven't I nearly managed to take down a few cars as they've driven past the house? The cat is about the size of a squirrel and in my view should behave like one, but when I attempt to chase her, she hunches up and spits at me! This can't be sanitary. And shouldn't she be declawed? I'm very concerned about the potential for damage to the furniture and my nose. Speaking of sanitation, do you realize that the cat goes to the bathroom in the house? And not in the drinking basins like you do, but in a sandbox in the basement. What are we going to say if some woman brings her baby over to play in the sandbox and the cat has been using it as a toilet? I used to police the thing for you, but you put it up out of my reach for some reason. I'm not the only one who believes the cat is an evil person. Here's a note from the hamster: To: Master of the house From: Hamster Subject: Cat Please tell cat to stop staring at me while I work. Signed, Hamster, Department of Rodent Wheels I also tried to get a note from the fish, but apparently it believes that everything happening outside its bowl is some kind of reality TV show. I don't understand why the cat is allowed up on the bed and I'm not. I am far more cuddly than any stupid cat. I think her purring sounds unhealthy and may be a sign of tuberculosis. And why doesn't she ever get a bath? She smells like saliva from licking her paws -- you'd never catch me licking such ridiculous places. I often smell wonderful from rolling in road kill, yet you give me baths all the time! And speaking of sleeping, sometimes I'll be taking a nap and she'll come right up and lie down beside me. Usually I'm too tired to do anything about it, but then later the other dogs smell her on me and crack a lot of jokes at my expense. So, not to exaggerate, but the cat has brought the family to complete ruin. I'm sorry I have to be the one to bring it to your attention, but now that I have, I think we can all agree that we should go back to the way it was, when I was the No. 1 pet. Yours truly, T. Dog

I bet he's disappointed. For the next show in his area, perhaps he should be told about the option of roomtrading on Thursday or Friday night, if this is a show where that is likely to be available. That way he would have more than 30 minutes to look at the goodies, and more goodies to look at since he beat the Saturday crowd. As to telling vendors they have to stick around to the very end, rules like that might stop vendors from signing up to begin with.

Hi Dave. Interesting questions. The Marble King company was incorporated in 1949. The first Marble King factory used to be an Alley factory. To the best of my knowledge they started making what we recognize as Marble King marbles in the mid-50's. They sold leftover Alleys and possibly Peltiers and some Japanese cat's eyes until they started making their own marbles. That's my initial contribution. Plus I'll move this into the general chat area so more will see. A little extra info and stray thoughts: American Machine-Made Marbles has some good Marble King history in it. The patch and ribbon style started in the 1950's. In the AMMM book, Roger Howdyshell is quoted as saying that they started veneering marbles in 1956-1957 and ended in 1965. So that's when the traditional patch and ribbons such as the classic bumblebee would have ended. But some of the later though still collectible marbles like the "newer" hercules and "newer" green hornet still had a patch and ribbon look and I think they were made in the late 60's or early 70's. I would fudge and consider the collectible Marble Kings from the early 1970's to be "vintage". Old style Hercules, compliments of Speed Racer (presumed 1956 - 1965) Later Hercules (presumed late 60's or early 70's)

1 1/16 wide

The Blue Tango is still one of my most favorite marbles, Edna.

I have small treasures and small regrets. I had a number of Master Cloudys which are very plain marbles but kinda hard to come by ... but I didn't know what they were and I sold them for a pittance. They probably weren't worth more than a pittance, lol, but if I had known what they were and how hard they are to find, I would have saved them.

Thanks for sharing. And happy birthday!

Too bad it's so dinged up. I'd make an offer.

Here's that one a fellow named Seth posted a few years ago. It's 3/4".

I have a pic of a "showstopper" someone posted a few years back. I guess I should wait to see if the actual owner of it or one like it will be around to post it.

That hand makes a lovely marble stand.

What is the mineral?

More beautiful marbles. Is the second one a "banded Indian"? Just testing myself.

Best wishes to all who might be affected by Sandy. Stay safe.

That makes sense to me. Really it does. Good luck with the sale.

Happy Halloween

Maybe that other offer fell through? Or maybe he felt like taking advantage of the guarantees which would come with a transaction done through ebay? I could understand that.

Do you mean, how do you get to pix which you've uploaded in the past? I'm testing this as I type, Andrea. I clicked on "My Media" in the toolbar above the posting window.* Then I went to "Attachments" and picked this: Then I went to "Gallery Images" and picked this: *Before I clicked on "My Media" I actually had to click the upper left icon in the toolbar to "Toggle editing mode" because I usually use a mode where the buttons in the toolbar aren't active.

Wow. I don't remember ever seeing such color in the core.

Oh my!

lulz