Steph

Here are those eggs I posted awhile back which I thought were Vacors!

Cat's eyes are so easy to love. Think how intriguing they must have been in the 1950's after years and years of random swirls and simple patches.

Those are lovely. The cat's meow.

wow

I saw this image on Facebook and my first thought was "Julia Powell?" I had gotten so used to seeing Edna's marble photos that when I saw a round cat ... well, it was only natural to think marble. Do you do that too?

Here's photo Jeff Hale posted. Looks like a match in there. The label is wrong for the bag count but I think it was still presumed the contents were Champ.

There are two or three reasons that I still have reservations about the 1927 or 1928 date for the introduction of Chinese Checkers. First, I have a 1923 article about Mah Jongg which called the Mah Jongg pieces "chinese checkers". Mah Jongg was a popular game in the 1920's. Perhaps that is the game people were playing at the Chinese Checkers tournaments in 1927 into the early 1930's. Second, which game pieces would Pressman have used in a 1928 version? Would they have been clay marbles? Wooden balls? There would be a limited selection of glass marbles available in 1927 or 1928. Finally, the 1936 and later articles and advertisements call it a new game. The 1937 article with the picture considers it new enough that they need to explain the object of the game (and new enough to be worthy of a picture in the paper). And it's still being called new in 1938 in the Popular Science article how how to build your own gameboard. That is why I suspect the earlier Chinese Checkers references might be about a different game, probably Mah Jongg. Thank you for bumping this thread. It's a very interesting topic to me.

Hello Mr. Alley Agate. It's wonderful to see you.

Hey, no fair making me think!

Wowzer. Not what I expected with the Imperial title. Definitely wouldn't have been my first guess for the marble. But I don't have any other guess to offer. Just admiration.

Here are the Master dates as described in AMMM, "Master Marble opened shop on May 20, 1930, and their first marbles were shipped on October 25 of the same year."

I just checked American Machine Made Marbles and they said Israel resigned June 1, 1930.

PM returned. If I understand correctly Master started in May 1930. I don't know what month he left Akro but it wouldn't have been much before that, right? Alox supposedly got their marble machines in the late 1930's from some West Virginia marble company, so that they would have a reliable source (themselves) for Chinese Checkers marbles.

What led you to the Alox hypothesis? I was pretty sure that the Master Marble Co. was established quite awhile before Alox got their marble machines. I have the late 30's as when Alox started making marbles.

Nice work. Macabre, but nice.

Great! Thanks for clearing that up!

Bittersweet. Thanks for sharing.

For some reason I was under the impression that the company name had been changed to J & J. Is that correct? Or was the just the name of the run? Thanks again.

When Joker posted his mibs I realized I don't know what people mean when they say JABO now. Is that the original JABO under a different name? Or a different JABO at another site? Or is JABO still JABO at the same site. Hope this doesn't start anything negative and if it does I'll move it promptly. Just curious about the names and places and unfolding history. Thanks.

Peltier would be my guess also. Name? Oh I hope someone else will help with that.

Yikes! ???

Prayers and warmest wishes ...

Wild.

interesting