Steph

woohooo!! made it to 100 wheeeeeeee!!!! :D

*gulp*

fun fun FUN!

It's a fine question. My vote would be original on most, but yes, I did question a few myself. I also thought two of the marbles from the 3rd box looked out of place, but with Dave's pix of his shooter size one with similar colors, it makes it seem more like they fit in a box like that. Still not sure about the one in the 2nd box.

Dude! I thought that one might have been an American which slipped in by accident. But now that I see yours . . . . COOL BEANS! (seller said 11/16")

I don't know nuthin about GR values or even sizes but here's a pic from the auction to get the discussion rolling. 9/16".

;-)

I thought that Uncmikie was a respected longtime member of the community. Paul something? Starts with a G? But now that you mention it, I also remember hearing something else recently about that seller ID - just a mere mention - which I hoped to hear a follow-up on but never did. Has the control of that ebay ID changed hands?

Top left looks like an Anacortes Vitro. Yah, purple one looks like it's in the Conqueror family. The other 3 don't immediately make me think "victory". Right now I'm not sure they would immediately make me think "vitro". White patch on colored base can really make me waffle. Also, the bottom right mib makes me think a little of some of the foreign mibs which some might ID as victories. Sometimes the simplest looking mibs are the trickiest.

yup, I noticed! and I like it.

as with most mibs I believe there are exceptions and variations. For example, I don't think a little bit of tint in the base would necessarily rule out something being a victory. not sure enough about 'em tho'.

Hi Gene. That would be a Yellow Jacket.

Here are this year's entries for the Glass Addiction Alphabet Marble Contest. The marbles are shown on video. That's a new thing. Kinda cool. http://www.pbase.com/glass_addiction/2010alphcontest

LOL. I can see you walking through Winchester Cathedral and thinking - wow, I could do a lot with that stained glass. (p.s., ouch @ the hand and teeth )

Well Happy Birthday! Awesome cake! Ingenious!

Is there any glass you won't melt?

This one is sorta interesting. Unusual colors for a torchmade.

Not necessary! The search is its own reward. Thanks for the thought though.

I feel shy talking about handmades. Usually wait awhile. Almost thought I oughta be able to give an ID from looking at the pic. But not brave enough to take a chance. so I watch.

So sad. (lol funny but sad) That wasn't actually M.F. Christensen. That was Charles, of "& Son" fame. Martin had passed away in 1915. Charles died in 1922. I do not know how the divorce case turned out. Never saw a notice of it being finalized. But haven't searched public records or the Akron paper. ??? In AMMM it says that he passed away before everything was settled with closing the corporation. Says his sister Jessie "took over full responsibilities, including seeing to it that Charles wife and daughter were taken care of throughout their lives." ooh, reading AMMM some more and just learned that Jessie "played a significant role throughout the life of the company". Girl power!

Alan estimated the 1930's for the 100 count box. I tried to research the Reg'lar Fellers date options and came up with a very tentative 1939 - 1941 based on an article in the June 1938 Playthings Magazine. The 1938 article said the comic strip author Gene Byrnes was launching a series of tie-ins and spin-offs of his comic strip, the details of which would be announced soon. And then of course 1942 would not have been a good year for marbles from Japan. Maybe Japan couldn't break into our market well in the 1930's. Either because of tariffs or because our makers were making good marbles cheaply enough here. Canada and South America would have had more need for imported marbles, right? I can't remember offhand what I've read about the tariff situation in those years. But we did have some very protectionist eras in the past. The marble makers in the 1950's were hoping to bring some of that back to save their businesses from the cat's eyes. But the U.S. gov't said no. It was in the government's interest to have Japan selling toys to us rather than whatever they might have been selling to the Soviet bloc.

I'd also suggest Japanese as a possibility. For some reason that hasn't been a popular idea. There's "made in Japan" packaging, but it has been argued that it was the box which was made in Japan, not the marbles. To me that doesn't seem consistent with the purpose of country of origin packaging laws. But I'm an amateur, so ? The mibs below aren't an exact match for yours but maybe similar enough to give pause. First a novelty box marked Made in Japan. The marbles here were listed as 11/16". (extra pix, click to enlarge) Second is a box of "Bolitas" which says "Industria Japonesa", which to me indicates Japanese manufacture, possibly intended for sale in South America. From a Marblealan auction. He said they measured about 1/2". (sorry, no clicking, wish the pix were larger but this is what we got! :-)

Green and black really work don't they.

Kewl! Thanks for the pix! But how does it work?! . .

Which colors? I think I see the three on one of them, but not sure of the shades. Dark blue, light blue and yellow on one?