Steph

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.

I'll put my two cents in for the American possibility. The kind seen in Alox or Master packaging. More pix would be good.

lol - thanks - I guess I'm on a roll

a keeper.

Is the flame off over already? I just found my kerosene.

Really? #2 is an Alley. I still would have pegged that as a CAC.

She's ready to go! So cute, grampa.

How fun! Enjoy spoiling her. ( :

Here is some glass company paperwork. The scans are quite large. I thought about reducing them some. Then I found that decreasing the dimensions in my paint program actually increased the kilobytes in some cases. So I left them as scanned. I'll let you adjust them in your viewers. Click to enlarge - might need to double click for full size 1901: An invoice? For some "separators with ring" whatever that would be 1913: Marble price list, with some accounting on the back . . 1932: a request for payment, from Elias Greiner Vetters Sohn to Louis Müller's Söhne. Greiner and Müller's may have made similar items but for some reason Müller's bought items from Greiner. They owed money for several months and Greiner needed it to buy more supplies. Winnie gave me some leads on what the documents say, including the great variety of items listed in the company headers. I will probably try to incorporate more of that into this post as I digest my notes. For now, this is it. (Thank you Winnie!)

LOL - cute pup. Now I have slobber on the inside of my computer screen.

Thanks for sharing. It's awesome that you got to talk to him. Rest in peace, Mr. Warren.

The contest rules said "In presenting to our juvenile customers this beautiful new line of marbles, we have been at a loss to find a suitable name to describe them, therefore we will put it up to our boy and girl friends to give this new marble a name." But in the end they ignored that part. Awarded the money but didn't use the winning name, or not for these marbles. Kept calling the marbles Prize Name. Funny choice! Akro does have a Fire Opal of course. Were they thinking of young Paul Chadbourne when they named those?

Good one!