Steph

I'd like to learn more about his infamous marbles. It's fascinating that after all these years his marbles can still spark such lively debate. Post 'em if you got 'em!

Have a great one Bo!

Man, that guy sizzles my steak.

Why would they pay all that attention to the address and not the spelling of the company name?! lol

They were in Cambridge, OH, and Payne, OH. However there are real Christensen boxes which say New York. Not that the one in the auction is real! Not at all. Just saying. (from a Morphy auction)

Is that what you said to General Sherman?

Pelt Liberty?

I love the linen postcard. What tiny percentage of people will ever see that one and realize they're looking at a marble company !

Bullseye!

Using some of the keywords in the header (wasserstandsröhren, schmelzfarben and lüsters), I found this at Google books, from 1907: Deutschlands glas-industrie http://books.google.com/books?id=S2MZAAAAYAAJ Glaskugeln are mentioned in the book. That's marbles, right? LOL. I have a long way to go even the help of Winnie and babelfish. Nevermind. Looks like it might just be a directory. But that's more keywords. There sure were a lot of glass companies. The translation of wasserstandsröhren is water level roar. What is that?! I think I have a lead with "Irrigator mit Thermometer oder Wasserstandsröhre" from a 1910 catalog (link to catalog page). "Irrigator mit Thermometer oder Wasserstandsröhre" translates to "irrigator with thermometer or water level tube".

I still wanted to try to understand Winnie's header translations better before I posted them since I didn't recognize some of the words. But now I'm feeling pressured to understand faster because it sounds like it might be relevant to the Alley aventurine discussion. Maybe a little. Unfortunately I can't understand things on a schedule. So this is just a bump for the people who are talking about glass colorants from last century. It sounds like maybe Greiner and/or Muller sold things like that. For instance, what would glass tubes, glass rods, colors and fusion colors mean to you? Those are mentioned in the Greiner header. It sounds at least possible that some is for making other glass items. p.s., other items mentioned in the headers are glass marbles, panorama and garden balls, Christmas decorations, eyes, et cetera. Some of the other items sound decorative and some sound more industrial/commercial.

Same last name as Mike.

Interesting!

The blue green marble and the plank have uncannily similar sparkle.

Is southern_marbles the new ID for this guy: atomic explosion of negatives

Let me get back with you ......

Well said. Which would be worth more? A CAC which looks like an Alley or an Alley which looks like a CAC. :ph34r:

I'll move this to the main forum for more eyes, but I'll leave a link here too.

I didn't get the box. Sorry.

Hi ausman. Welcome. Those two marbles actually look fairly different to me. The shade and opacity of the red, the opacity of the white. But I wouldn't want to have to ID Alan's marble either. It doesn't look CAC to me.

How large is your marble, butzbach?

"Egg yolk" for marble collectors seems to be as much about who made the marble as about the color. There are lots of marbles with yellow but only a few types which are labeled as egg yolk. Here's an example of an Akro egg yolk oxblood. Here is an older handmade marble with egg yolk. Both of these pix came from Morphy auctions.

ohmigosh!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!! Great work!

That's a great pic too. She looks like a happy child.