Steph

Maybe someone kept their Chinese Checkers set in the box. :-)

I see what you mean. That's a neat, orderly grid in the middle of your box. Hard to say. Maybe it did come from Akro that way. Or maybe someone else stored their extra marbles in the box - very neatly. At one time at least, your box coulda been sold with a bag, but of course I couldn't swear Akro always sold it that way. Here is an ad with what looks like your box, and a bag.

I heard once that there were guineas found in made in Mexico packaging. I remember this in the context of a discussion about big ones. I was under the impression they were ones which could be passed off for CAC's. And I heard that someone well-known in marbles was following up on that. Or at least I think I did. Maybe someone slipped something into my root beer. Does anyone else here remember anything like that? Know any details?

Happy Birthday Bill!

Hello! Saw your marble in the alphabet contest! It was a nice one.

So anyone else have pix of Akro bags? I miiiiight. Will look. hmmmm, what are we supposed to remember about that one? Is there a controversy? Sorry, I'm drawing a blank. edit: I'm not 100% positive, but I think this box is newer than yours. Just including it as an Akro bag even if it doesn't fit your box. (Anyone disagree with this bag being in this box?) (click to enlarge) . .

Maybe Master also? Intriguing bag Don posted

The posts are mixed between wishing for recovery and sending our sympathy. That's because Weldon had not passed yet when it was first thought he had, so I temporarily masked that announcement and the responses. Now it is official. Weldon has passed on. I am unmasking all the posts. Please forgive any confusion. Hopefully the feeling in our hearts will be clear enough. Love you, Edna. -s Spikey and Scooter

That looks like a kneepad.

God bless you all. You have a strong and wonderful family. We're wishing you all the best.

*giggle* *chuckle* *giggle* lol, thanks for the laugh BJ!

lol - no snooping needed. That's a funky cool swirl. The glass still looks Vacor though.

David Rosenfeldt I've been informed that his signature is N D R.

good job!

Capital letters? edit: Ahhhh . . . is the signature upside down in pic #2? I was trying to make out the NOR in that pic, but the top line didn't look like capital letters. :-) It might be helpful to show the signature. Maybe positioned so that it's out of the way of reflections.

I've been wondering about either glaze or dye. Dave, is the word you're searching for simply "facet" itself?

Have a great day. May all your birthday wishes come true.

The pink is perfection!

Actually, I HaVE seen a double ingot cat eye before. lol Yours is certainly different (and I like it).

that's wild.

I mean,

EDIT: Well, I glopped all this together back in 2010. It's now 2017. There was too much for me to sort through that day so I said to myself I'd come back to it. So it has been invisible and unedited all this time. I may never fix it, but it has cool links, so I'm making it visible. Maybe I'll clean it up 7 years from now. Inlaying porcelain in glass appears to go back to the late 1700's. (Other items such as Ivory as far back as 1584.) James Tassie is connected - and has a publication with the word "sulphur" in the title - which might be the inspiration for the name "sulphide". Not sure yet how closely connected Tassie's creations were to the little figures which we see in marbles. It's a catalog. If it describes the method I haven't seen that yet. 1775: A catalogue of impressions in sulphur of antique and modern gems from which pastes are made and sold This describes how sulphur was used: History of Tassie In 1818 in France and 1819 in England there were patents filed for Cameo Incrustation, aka Cameo Encrustation. The French patent was filed by Pierre-Honoré Boudon de Saint–Amans. The English patent was filed by Apsley Pellatt. Early versions of the process were called cristallocéramie or variations such as "crystallo ceramie" or "crystallo ceramic". The 1819 is given the most credit from what I see online, but this might be an error entrenched early and perpetuated over time. French patent predates the Enlish and one online source suggests that the English patent is a copy. That source says the name sulphide comes from bad cameo inlay work - a flaw giving rise to art. No date is given for the origin of the "sulphide" name though. Not that I can see. The author appears to translate the 1818 patent title to include the word "sulphides" but I don't see it there. Another sources says the name came from sulphur being used in making sulphides. Art of Sulphides and Cameo http://www.georgianindex.net/Shop/glass/p-gglassmakers.html Is this the title of the Boudon patent? Mémoire sur le perfectionnement de l'incrustation dans le cristal des camées "Sulphide" is said to have entered the vernacular because the micro-thin layer of air between the ceramic figure and the glass gives the figure the appearance of a silver sulpide. Very interesting: Art of Sulphides and Cameos http://www.cristallerie-hartwig.com/history%20of%20sulphides.pdf an html version of mostly the same material?: http://paperweights.cristallerie-hartwig.com/history.html That might cast a completely different light on the material I originally posted, which is basically as below: This page presents a history of sulphides in general, Sulphide Technique. They mention an 1821 book written by Apsley Pellat on the subject. He took out a patent on "crystalo ceramie" in 1819. Also mentioned is an 1849 book he wrote, Curiosities of Glass Making. In that book there's a section on "cameo incrustation" beginning on p. 119. The tile of the 1821 book is, Memoir on the origin, progress, and improvement of class manufactures: includ. an account of the patent crystallo ceramic, or, glass incrustations. It is 42 pages long. (source) Some good date info for future reference - from the table of contents of a book, it appears. Another little bit on Pellatt, with some discussion of trends in sulphide making. Not sure what to make of it. Good chance this will get edited out. But it's here at least as a bookmark for now. Apsley Pellatt Glass, from the Glass Encyclopedia 1968: Sulphides: The Art of Cameo Incrustation, by Paul Jokel Baccarat of France is also known for them. Boudon might be forgotten. http://www.arch-gallery.org/Art_of_The_Gem.html

Mine now! You wrote it?!

That light blue color might be my favorite.

Bump again. Coming down the home stretch. Under an hour on some. We're looking at a record high on one marble but still some affordable prices on some nice glass.