Steph

In case anyone didn't see her thread in the buy-sell-trade forum - she's got frogs! Frog Marbles In Need Of A New Home

Here it is. They are beautiful. Edna took wonderful pictures. http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/3247

Hi Pete. Just toss me the occasional patch and I'll feel better. Maybe one day one the UK collectors will start a UK board if only to let people say, "yes we're here!"

Idle Question For An Expert

On a related note, Rainbo wanted to say hi but he couldn't find your page.

thanks

oh gee. I just got it. DOH. I thought you were talking about cold temperatures make the glass less fluid.

Martin F. Christensen Apparatus for producing metallic spheres Patent number: 632336 Filing date: Mar 7, 1899 Issue date: Sep 5, 1899 Machine for making spherical bodies or balls Patent number: 802495 Filing date: Dec 19, 1902 Issue date: Oct 24, 1905

James Harvey Leighton Manufacture of solid glass spheres Patent number: 462083 Filing date: Mar 28, 1891 Issue date: Oct 27, 1891

Samuel C. Dyke Apparatus for rounding plastic-clay slugs Patent number: 432127 Filing date: Feb 6, 1890 Issue date: Jul 15, 1890 Machine for molding marbles from plastic material Patent number: 463418 Filing date: Jun 27, 1891 Issue date: Nov 1891

oh hey, I just opened the thumbnail, and I recognized the big colorful one on the left. You got that big group? Beautiful!

I'm going to go ahead and move this. Kinda like to have handmades in the main forum so people who don't frequent the ID forum can have a say on them. ( :

?????? My first thought would be German, but I couldn't argue against Czech.

nice job!

Oh hey, I just checked their feedback and see another box. The plot thickens. The marbles in this 2nd box are ID-ed as Japanese, and 1940's, though again with an unprofessional looking label. The marbles do look like they could be 1940's Japanese tho. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120595793667 He's not making much money on them. What if they're real and he quits selling because they're not profitable. What might we miss out on seeing!

If it were from here, I would have thought "wrong". I don't have much to compare it to though from Argentina. How would I know what boxes would have looked like in, say, the 1950's? The other marbles I saw from them were mis-IDed. Said to be 1950's though at most half were. But maybe they didn't know. http://cgi.ebay.com/Dozen-old-Swirl-Marbles-/12060147638

La cancha 16 old marbles in box!! Looks like a modern label but it looks like it might be over some other writing. And the mibs look foreign and oldish. Whaddaya think? (click to enlarge)

omg + drool. those are so nice! I thought I knew what you meant by picture record. I didn't. Those are even better than I imagined! wow!

I just noticed the announcement! Hope it's been a good one!

Sure

That's a beautiful piece of wood! wow I also have a thing for unique items with nice shapes which once were functional but make awesome displays. I have some cool old hardware in that category.

Wish I knew which exact mib(s) were featured in that, but here are a couple more Universe marbles for fun.

pretty amazing what you can do with an ordinary marble. nice!

Well, happy birthday! Hope you find a lot of marbles BJ.

Thanks Marie. Nobody's perfect. Thanks for trying. p.s. Rainbo says hi. :-)