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Steph

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  1. "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.

    gallery_279_159_3368.jpg

    Here is an older handmade marble with egg yolk.

    gallery_279_159_3028.jpg

    Both of these pix came from Morphy auctions.

  2. 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

    LMS1901_400.jpg

    1913: Marble price list, with some accounting on the back

    LMSpreis-listefront_400.jpg . . LMSpreis-listeback_400.jpg

    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.

    EGVS1932_400.jpg

    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!)

  3. 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?

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