Steph

The Alox adventure continues! In 2006 the authors of American Machine-Made Marbles reported that Alox's last working machine, which had been salvaged by two machinists at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, had been shipped to Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee during the 1980's. They said it "still rests in Tennessee, perhaps dreaming of more productive days". I imagine the authors were being romantic and poetic, but guess what! Nancy Frier, granddaughter of Alox founder John Frier, has retrieved the machine and it is now running again. I don't have all the details - perhaps someone else will help flesh those out - but here are some photos of their run from this past Monday. I'm having trouble deciding which photos to include! (Click on pix to enlarge)

like!

My rule of thumb is that if the green vane is next to the blue, it's new.

Praying for the surgeon's hands to be guided. And for peace and comfort to Sarah.

Bo's mibs in the ID section now have me wondering what rules of thumb there might be for brightness in the white bases of various makers. (His look sorta bright to me.) If Bo put his side by side with other swirls and the white popped out as fairly bright in comparison with the others, would that tell him anything? If you have thought about this, what have you concluded?

Peewees & parrots?

The way the red glows, I'll agree that it doesn't seem like oxblood. Great marble no matter what.

Neato! Thanks Rick!

Might open the conversation up if you asked about blue-green based pelts in general, then draw your own conclusions about the green end of the range. I woulda thought that there were "plenty" of rainbos in that general area. But narrowing it down to a specific shade? I couldn't try it. Not enough rainbos. And not enough comfort with specific shade names.

Do ya have to ask? !! Don't mean you should exhaust yourself. Even small group pix would be cool. Close-ups or semi-close-ups of Ravenswoods with provenance - always welcome! Even the common ones. Those don't get much air time and we don't often realize how many companies made a basic type.

Here's the picture from peltiermarbles.com, might help the discussion.

won't try to find top and bottom on those! lol Awesome mibs, Scott.

Buyer beware

Possible workaround: can you right click and open in a new window?

Here's one which was presented in a thread about horseshoes. source

Good deal! Thanks for solving the mystery and hunting out those pix.

LOL. Had to look hard for the boy under the dog! Fun pix. :-)

I quoted the whole commment. Perty much all they said was it looked like a Pelt . . . and it came with some other comics. edit: oops, I didn't see yours when I posted yesterday Dan. Mystery was already solved then and I didn't know it. Thanks.

Did you see this pic David?

so soon? Someone might get a bargain out of this.

hotdog! Hope Jack sees this post! He has some little cross-thrus we struggled with, since we didn't have proof that any that small came from Japan.

Sweet box!

I might have seen small opaque ones. I think Road Dog mighta had one or more small ones. I'm trying to remember whether his were clear or solid.

Anyone notice this comment at Marbleforum.org? On the Pelt Comics page, someone asked about a Jiggs comic marble. Jiggs was an old strip character. Is Jiggs on the Marble King repros?

Just saying. The Stanley-Lapics are major Jabo fans. Jabos are the marbles used in the local school tournaments in their area. According to Debra, the kids love the colors. Debra and Whitney's tourney shooters are/include real agates but the marbles featured in the recent articles and interviews about their trip to England were Jabos.