Steph

Bet it's something in hand. Looks quite yummy in pix. I bet the rainbow is even better in person. No idea when it was made. I've worked hard on learning Vitro ages and ones like this keep showing that there are pockets of mystery in my timeline!

Mill balls.

On Mike's?

I would have guessed real stone on his. Mighta said "limestone" but I'm not that confident at minerals. Maybe just whatever chips were knocked off of whatever other stones Germans worked with.

.... would have been my guess.

Those Rainbow Clouds are biguns?

Nifty set of orbs, Roger. Plateful of candy. Awesome find.

If we're lucky we might get some of that info organized here.

But the site which is dedicated to Jabo is Jabo Land.

http://anythinggoes43567.yuku.com/

They have a lot of named examples listed there. Maybe more questions might bring more named examples.

What is the question? How the orange color is achieved?

Happy Birthday Lou! Thanks for everything. Have a wonderful day.

Hope you have a powerful AC.

Edna, I've done that before on other boards.

Fisher / Vitro patents

Ornamental assembly and method of manufacturing the same

Patent number: 2094529

Filing date: Sep 20, 1935

Issue date: Sep 28, 1937

Henry A. Fisher

Didja see this one before?

http://cgi.ebay.com/220556648567

Check the 7/11/36 entry here:

http://old.cinema.ucla.edu/Prelude/1936.html

Not sure how hard it would be to get the footage. Not sure how long it lasts. But it exists! ( :

I'm kinda hoping Bob will!

He's been a pretty active participant lately. Good chance he'll see this.

... said with respect and great interest.

Thank you for the .pdf, Sam.

No excuse for me taking so long to work on fixing the version in my post. I just sorta ran out of steam.

Congrats on getting your website up and running.

What made the chalkie look on the last one?

on the last marble ... not on the man .... (is that you Mike sans beard?)

Found the Big Time Marbles auction pix I had saved. This box didn't have the original marbles in it. Looks like the difference between the # 115-20 and the # 115-15 might just have been which side they put the marbles in and which side held the bag. (maybe?) Here are all the pix I saved in case you like to see edges.

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What's it worth retail?

$2.98

I kinda remember a Big Time Marbles box being posted here. I think someone might have been asking if it was a fake.

Heck, it might have been me asking! But so far I've come up empty on my searches for it. Not sure which keywords to use.

Nifty. Again, looks like maybe more than 4 in one of the single rows. (Am I seeing that right?)

Oh hey, I see cartoon box lids too. Kewl. First time I've seen those in a flyer.

Steph, in 2008, each run had a look of its own. That was before Kugler glass was used and the colors started looking alike in the different runs. While 2008 has been surpassed, it had character in each run. Maybe some of us can help you if we post.

Even in 2008, there was some crossover. It was the stumble which taught this to me. Some Madyias and Jokers got knocked together and I couldn't pull them back apart.

And some Joker II's and something else got mixed together and I realized that there were too many similarities for me to be sure I divided them back up right. Was it Madyia III? (is there such a thing as Madyia III?) Anyway, I thought the Joker II's were unique but then when they jumped the wall into that other set I got a surprise.

I can't specifically remember which ones I got confused over because I kinda gave up and quit worrying and so it's fuzzy now. All I know for sure is that back then, when I was paying more attention to them, I found I couldn't tell some apart that I thought I should have known. And so I put the box away and tried not to worry about it.

But I've brought the 2008 box back out of storage now. So maybe I'll take another whack at it.

My 2008 box got jumbled. I stumbled while I was walking from one room to another and the marbles jumped their borders.

I never managed to get it straightened out. Maybe with enough threads like this I could come close.

p.s.,

I just noticed some discrepancies between the pictures and the descriptions within the ads.

I'm going to attribute that partly to ad writer carelessness and partly to Akro possibly changing up the contents of the tins.

OK, Steph beat me to an answer. So I had to find the ad for you.

see if this works:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/AkroAgateCatalog2of4.jpg

Ooops. Beat you again. ;-)

Sorry.

That one was from a little later than this next one. This one is from 1930. Different selection of marbles in the litho boxes, but same count described.