Steph

Thanks!

Hope these links stay stable. From time to time I want to go back to an old auction. I'll start with a link posted in another thread today. I'll try to gather others. As always, anyone else feel free to add. Edit: Now I have six, which were easy to find in Morphy's list of past auctions. These are ones which were specially for marbles. Some of the other toy auctions might have marbles in them so will look more later. December 12, 2009 February 2010 November 6, 2010 May 21, 2011 December 3, 2011 (Baumann collection) May 26, 2012 October 20, 2012 April 19 & 20, 2013 December 13 & 14, 2013 December 13 & 14, 2014 May 30 & 31, 2015 September 10-12, 2015 December 18-20, 2015 June 24-26, 2016

Same people. They changed one of their many ebay names to marbleconnection in honor of us continuing to point out their fraud.

Two concerns I have with photos are (a) when the oxblood goes under clear glass sometimes we see it as translucent -- optical illusion -- and (b ) sometimes the oxblood is accompanied by other shades of red and we see that those other shades aren't oxblood so we rule out the whole thing.

Wow, you captured so much color.

Navarre?

Moment of silence and time for perspective ....

Nice pic.

In case the BST threads fly under your radar, check out Winnie's cat's eye premiums: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/17461-advertising-marble-bags/

I was just watching a marble making video and trying to picture where the corkscrew mechanism would be ... and I started to wonder why some factory or some individual with their own machine doesn't try to make corks again.

So do folks think this is in the Akro family? Bob, does the base glass have an orange glow when held to the light? The base looks sorta like some later Akros which didn't have the glow and did sometimes have oxblood.

That's an interesting post, Steve. I wouldn't have thought of Kokomo. Bob, it looks like you have a two-prong (at least) question there. A. Who made your marble. B. The history of the moonies. Part B gets confusing because I think what was called "moonie" has changed over the years, and different companies have made marbles which were made with similar glass. How deep do you want to go with this?

It's Bob! *flying tackle hug*

That one looks like fluffs of cotton candy.

Well, I'm still thinking that the switch from calling the game "Halma" to calling it "Chinese checkers" was after 1933. My working theory at the moment is that if anyone said "Chinese Checkers" in 1933 they would immediately think of Mah Jongg. Popular Science was still calling the star version "new" in 1938. Anyway, super duper set Don! Lovely piece of history. How much work do you think was predone in the kit? Did the student have to make the holes himself?

Very interesting. Why was Chinese Checkers being called a new game in the late 1930's? This is confusing.

Fond memories of that time period. Some of the first marbles I ever bought.

You're most welcome. And thank you, Paul. ( :

Cool beans, guys! (mmmm ... water hazard MM? hmmmmm ... no, I better not ask.)

lol -- just kidding around. Don't want to start a political fight. Just wondering if anyone has any good marble political stuff to share. Like Masters campaign giveaways or Hoover or Roosevelt comic marbles or ?????

I got the code right for that post, Andrea. I sent a PM to try to figure out what's up with the your preview option.

That line on p. 162 of AMMM does sound like the cage was introduced in 1954. Maybe that was a misunderstanding or editing error. I based my opinion mostly on the packaging the different kinds of cat's eyes are found in. And here's an ad from 1957 showing the chubbier vanes. ( :

As to the dates, my guess would be that most of the hybrids shown were made in the late 50's or maybe early 60's. I THINK they switched to cage style cats earlier than 1970.

I respectfully disagree, Rich. I think one of yours is foreign (you probably know which one I mean) and one of Edna's is. But we agree almost all are Vitro. That's the key info Ausman needs to know for his search. *big smile*

Most of them are Vitro.