Steph

I bet that if I was the tenth person to answer, the majority would have said Vitro. However, I'm the first to answer, and my first, strong impulse was Akro.

Jabo

Had to clean this thread up. The original graphics that I linked to were gone. I used the Google Books source. I broke page 380 into three images in order to be able to screenshot it widely enough to be what I hope is easily readable. So, in case you're saving my images, realize that the middle page is a multiparter. It would be handy to extract pages 379 to 381 in PDF form from the longer PDF document, but I don't currently have the software for that.

Oh yes! Patents! I forgot to include those in my list of examples. Fun one.

I _might_ be able to make that change, but it looks like a job for @bumblebee

Great advice there, Ric!

If mistakes are made, don't worry. We can fix titles. We basically encourage a new thread for each separate document. However, for related documents such as correspondence between different companies which might span some months, certainly feel free to post all the related documents in the same thread. We'll try to have common sense about this! Comments are welcome in other people's threads. If a thread starts to get complicated and we think some of the material would benefit from being in its own thread we can always split that off. We understand that not all material found in newspapers and magazines will be accurate. Corrections and elaborations are welcome. Some topics have in the past become very controversial, so as always let's try to keep discussions civil and constructive. If you have a really great document but don't know the year it was created, that's okay too. Post what you know. And maybe someone else will have input which could help narrow down the date.

In this subforum, we are trying to gather historical marble documents. It could be advertisements, articles, patents, company ephemera, etc. Fun items are welcome as well as more serious or technical. We especially hope to see items where dates are known. In those cases, please put the date at the start of the thread title. If you know the month and day as well as the year, then using this format will be helpful for us: YYYY-MM-DD. For example, 2022-03-06 for March 6, 2022. The subforum has an option to sort threads by title. Using that date format will allow the documents to be sorted in chronological order.

The guest commenting is turned back off. There is a notice that un-logged-in browsers have to sign in to comment. Should be no more confusion there.

Well, I'm heading out for the evening. Nobody be alarmed if anything else goes wrong. We'll get it all fixed!

Yeah, we used to be able to post as guests, then Jason made it so we couldn't, but now that's back again. Not sure what happened. I split Bill's post from here over to a new thread over there and let Jason know about the guest posting. We have wrinkles to iron out.

If I understand your question, I'll say yes. With the 1955 Sports Illustrated thread, I almost started a new thread with the images and planned to just give credit to the original poster. In the end, I moved the whole thread because it was relatively short and had good info in it. But if you find some document you'd like to highlight, starting a new thread with it and giving credit is a fine plan. When I'm finding photobucket images, I'm not simply linking to them. I'm transferring them to this site because I just don't trust the photobucket images not to completely disappear.

You may have noticed our new subforum: Marble-Related Documents, News, Etc., Especially Items with Dates - Marble Connection The idea is to have a place where it's easy to find historical documents which currently have a tendency to slip to the back pages of the forum. We want to especially focus on items that we know the dates for. You'll notice that we're putting the year at the start of the thread title. The subforum has an option to sort by thread title. With the year listed first, a reader can quickly put the items into chronological order. So if you have a series of Butler Brothers catalog ads, for instance, then make separate threads for the 1892 ads and the 1905 ads. We're going with a "keep it simple" approach to thread content. As a general rule of thumb, we're encouraging essentially one item per thread. That way the title of the thread can be descriptive of the content. Of course, if you have a related series of documents, such as back-and-forth communications between two companies which spanned many months, then it would make sense to have that all in a single thread. If you have an amazing item that you don't know the date of, then it's still welcome! Maybe at least a general date will be found in subsequent discussion and we can edit the title. Not everything has to be academic or technical or dry. Fun items are welcome too. And some of the things which get posted will be nonfactual, but that can be fun too. Do you have any idea how many men were credited with inventing the machine which started the machine-made marble industry? I don't have a count, but I've come across the claim often. I'm pretty sure Berry Pink and Art Fisher both got credit at some point for inventing Martin F. Christensen's machine. A lot of not-quite-right lore found its way into newspapers. We'll take it in stride.

Gave it a shot with off-the-top-of-my-head marble words just for practice. Aggies, Bloodies, Miggles. Yeah, it could be fun.

I pulled these from another thread and now have them saved to the forum instead of to Photobucket. I probably have larger copies of these pages on disk. If I find them, hopefully I'll be able to upload them. And hopefully these will be useful and enjoyable for now.

Ron beat me to it. At that size, the choices are very limited.

Lovely. I could not have marbles displayed like that. I would spill them for sure. But nice job.

I'm thinking Jabo, which would mean not a slag. But I'm not 100% sure. The big beautiful pictures show a lot more detail than I'm used to noticing in a Jabo Classic.

Jabo

I still can't place it. Am considering Vitro.

I don't see Asian. I would be asking Jabo or Champion .... and I don't know the answer.

Maybe more views on the green and yellow could help.

One vote for normal Pelt Rainbo.

Tapioca pudding was better when I was a child. Before society said we would die if we consumed uncooked eggs.

Glass companies definitely deliberately used the names of stones to try to make glass marbles sound more like children's beloved stone marbles. In 1930 in America, a lawsuit was filed with the government by the onyx industry to force some glass companies to stop calling their products "onyx". The suit was successful. Akro still used the name onyx for awhile after that. Not sure why they got away with it, but they didn't keep doing it for long. The stone aventurine was named after the glass aventurine -- did you know that? Aventurine glass was discovered and named in the 1700's.