Steph

If you're used to getting notices about replies on threads you've posted in, you might need to change something in your settings to keep receiving them. They stopped coming to my inbox until I checked the email box(es) on the notification preferences page. Looks like the popup notice for new PM's might not be automatic anymore either. There's a box which looks like it's for that purpose a little ways down the notifications preferences page.

I have found some items in the book which appear erroneous to me. I admire Mr. Lucht's effort and if it opens a dialogue on Arnold Fiedler then that will be great. It has certainly led me to question a lot of what I assumed common knowledge. Makes me wonder how much of what has been written elsewhere about Fiedler is true and it has started me on a quest to find more records about him if at all possible. An example of something from the new book which I had never heard before and would like to have corroboration for is the claim that Fiedler started the Cambridge Glass Company. But the more I study the more I realize I don't have backup for a lot of the stories I've heard about Fiedler in any source. Even Baumann's version appears to have at least one error in it. Where did the information come from which we all consider "fact"? Is there documentation, or does everything we believe about Fiedler come from the same pool of anecdotes? The book has a lot of great pictures and some leads to things I'd like to see more of. And it has sure been fun thinking about Arnold Fiedler so much. I love a good mystery.

Oh no!! lol All my self-made thumbnails for pix I have at Photobucket ... clicking on the little pic doesn't take you to the big pic anymore. Well, it doesn't take me there. It just brings up another copy of the small pic. Like here: http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=10360 ooopsie. I have a LOT of editing to do. :ph34r:

Has anyone been successful at attaching a thumbnail?

I was able to upload this to the gallery so that's progress but I wasn't able to attach it as a thumbnail.

A new name for my list: http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/1784

Well, I just edited that post all over the place. Here's the cleaned up version: Cloudys are solid colors. The patches are Meteors. To the best of my understanding.

I believe the ones on the right side of the box are Meteors. Here's the whole list of styles from a 1933 flyer: The flyer that came from: . . Those "thumbnails" aren't working now, so click here for the larger versions: http://i119.photobuc...sterFlyer1a.jpg http://i119.photobuc...sterFlyer1b.jpg edit: look at the No. 2000 De Luxe assortment here. http://i119.photobuc...sterFlyer2a.jpg . It calls the bottom row of patches Meteors. (Might need to double click to get full size. p.s. a larger scan is available) p.p.s. Here's a larger version of the No. 2000 description. http://i119.photobuc...er2a_No2000.jpg

Thanks, Hansel. I got that fixed at least. A little bit of progress.

I found some auction pix I'd forgotten about. I had 'em buried in with some moss agate pix.

Clinton Israel? The guy who owned Master?

Sparkles! hehe. I feel so taunted. I can post from Photobucket. I get an error message on gallery and attachments. But the problem has been reported to support. Hopefully it will be okay soon.

Thanks Bob, Steve. . . I had red, white and blue. I can't remember if I had other colors. Oh no, PlanB. I got my hopes up. (is this a new problem with uploading pix?)

I tried to load something to the gallery and couldn't. Two people have recently said something about not being able to load pix. I'm not sure if they were trying to load attachments or what the file size was. ... but ... is anyone else having trouble with pix? If you can load pix maybe you can post one here and taunt me with it. lol

Anyone have any pix of Master Cloudys they would care to share? By Cloudy I mean the single colored translucent version. Not the patch which is sometimes called a Cloudy. I had a bunch at one time. Got them in a 1933 cigar box. The cigar box came from the Chicago world's fair and I bet the marbles did too. But I sold most or all of them before I knew what I had. I think I might have kept a few but I'm not sure were I put them. They either don't seem easy to come by, or maybe others don't recognize what they have.

You guys who've been collecting for years and years and even decades ... have they been called corkscrews for as long as you can remember?

What does a CAC Exotic look like? How are they different from regular CAC's?

In case anyone isn't up to speed on the timeline controversy, here is an interesting thread: http://www.landofmarbles.com/phpbb/showthread.php?20233 p.s., the book does say that Fiedler worked at Peltier briefly starting in 1924, so the disagreement appears to be when he left Peltier to go to Christensen.

Still Pelt.

These were listed as Pelt and I believed it at the time.

Would you take some gratuitous cobra admiration?

Came across another firmly ID-ed red, white and blue. Well, it was sitting in plain sight but I didn't make the connection. From the famous Alley sample case: Seems a good time to renew the invitation for any other examples people are confident about. Thanks!

The more I read the more convinced I am that "ballast" came to mean something along the lines of "economy shipping" in addition to its original functional meaning. If a manufacturer/distributor wasn't in a rush then they could get their materials on the ship as space came available. Ships charged money to take goods at a ballast rate. Seems like ships should PAY for ballast instead of CHARGE for ballast if it was just about functionality. But then somewhere along the way people figured out that they could save shipping charges by calling their goods "ballast", and then somewhere else along the way the people running the boats figured out that they didn't need to pay for "ballast". They could actually charge for taking it on board. 1914 book: ".... For the liner, if carrying such goods at all, is carrying them as ballast rather than as cargo, and accepts as a rule a low freight for the service." http://books.google.com/books?id=nn8pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 That's just one example. Won't bog this down with links. I think I remember an 1800's reference to marbles being used as ballast. You may have seen it also and discounted it as an "urban myth" of the day. But the myths are starting to pile up ... seems to me. I can totally see barrels of marbles being treated as low value, low urgency freight and going the economy route. This next article is fairly specific about who is shipping what for how much in connection with marbles from Japan in 1955. Not quite as specific as I'd hope for further google searching. But rather specific nonetheless: "Conference United States Flag Lines advises that Japanese toy glass marbles are loaded as ballast and the cost of shipping from Japan to the United States is only $10.00 per 2000 pounds. Shipping costs on non-conference United States Flag vessels and Japanese Flag vessels are considerably lower." http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/History/1955_02_17_StMarysOracle_p4_Ballast_ConferenceFlagLines.jpg

I was sort of hoping that someone would start a thread about ballast. I welcome a chance to revisit the topic from time to time. But this angle was definitely not what I expected.