Steph

The size limit for posting is 425 KB, I think. What are the physical dimensions on your photos? like how many pixels by how many pixels?

Jack, how large are you photos?

p.s., I was sorta hoping it might be related to these. Obviously not identical. But it's not unheard of for Pelts to have two yellow-ish ribbons and one apiece of a two other colors. . . . just a thought . . .

LOL. To me it looks like the "blob" is a ribbon. but maybe that is wishful thinking on my part.

Baumann says "bright greens and yellows" in reference to reproductions which have been appearing since the 1960s but he might not be talking about the glass. Maybe the figure itself. So nevermind. Still an interesting section. Discusses California sulphides at length. Just maybe not very applicable to this thread. The ACRN article is three pages illustrated with many photos, showing differences between original die struck medals and the repros which were cast in molds, the molds being made from the originals.

Cool! Thanks George! I knew that once upon a time. Somewhere along the way I forgot. I need to regroup and start organizing things over here again. Right now most of my saved pix and documents are on DVDs waiting for a reformat of my computer . . . when I find the system disk!

Fel, I thought there was a blue one also. White, orangey-yellow, and blue? no?

Re. reproduction sulphides, see Baumann's Collecting Antique Marbles. (pp. 139-41 in 4th ed., p. 88 in 3rd ed.) Re. reproduction tournament medals, see Antique & Collectors Reproduction News, Vol. 9, #2, Feb 2000.

They're Pelt "Clear Rainbos" in a jobber box. lol, no competition will be coming from me, Charles. Hope you win!

If Hansel sold reproduction items as new then where's the easy money? And if he sold them as new, then wasn't that "warning" the marble community? The community may have forgotten, and newbies like me have come along who simply don't yet know enough to suspect that there are repros. But we all learn at some point that there are things we don't know and we need to learn how to tell the new from the old. I admit to bias here because I've always found Hansel generous with information. Still it seems to me the issue isn't about greed. To me it seems closer to the debate over whether contemporary handmade marbles should be signed by the maker. Sorry if I'm missing out on something here.

It's looking like the box was used longer than suspected. Simms won his office in 1955 and Riemann in 1956. I posted a couple of articles over at Marble Mental. (sorry if I wasn't recognizable as "twinrivers". . . . That's supposedly a Wisconsin marbles reference. )

Neato. That's still on my wishlist!

That's all I can say. Yowzers. (WISH they were mine!)

Well I still probably have at least a 100 more names to patch in there . . . when I'm in the right frame of mind. In the meantime, here's a cool song with marble names. :-) All the Marbles

By the by, does anyone here remember Mr. Bennett's claim to fame outside the field of marble collecting?

Good idea. Bennett Reproduction Comics on Modern Marble King Rainbows vs. Original Picture Marbles on Peltier Peerless Patches Here are the pix from the recent thread discussing them. The first to show the two patches on the 1990's reproductions. The 2nd to show that the new images differ in varying degrees from the originals.

Green Glass Sulphide, 1.25" Made by Norbert Geitner of Lauscha, Germany. Here is a more ambitious attempt for marbles in this general category (the intentional repros): Mostly Pix - " Fakes ", Reproductions, Fantasy, Etc.

I wished I had a marble to add . . . and guess what! Now I do! Thanks Carole and Lou!

Sweet ! ! ! It's gorgeous! Thanks ! ! !

Hansel was not following the threads until I gave him a heads up yesterday. He asked me to post the rest of the story. Here is his note (with me clarifying one pronoun). Thanks. I told him [Craig] these particular sulphides were made by Norbert Geitner of Lauscha at my request, to prove that miniature coin sulphides, which, at the time, another German ebayer was then selling as antique, were indeed new. Other than the coins, Norbert had his choice of size, design and color. At the time I had several of these new sulphides listed on eBay as new, and Norbert listed some himself, also as new. They sold for less than my costs, so I quit buying them. There was no agreement to buy any particular number of marbles from Norbert; neither did he have any constraints as to where or to whom he could sell them. He was not the first nor the last to make modern sulphides in Germany, and I was not his last customer. Of note, that green eagle sulphide recently sold on eBay was not listed as being old; I wonder if Craig's was. One can't deny it's better to have repros sold as such; unfortunately it may be impossible to educate collectors who have more $$$ than sense, me included. Hansel

Your link ended up with an extra "http" in it. This oughta work: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/the2cees

Oh hey, I just noticed! Dustin's hot! Looks like he's in the running for the $500 scholarship also.

Thanks for Mike's version. The Lawrence Brown part is close to what was said in post #3 of this thread, Marble Bag... Brown Manufacturing Co.. That exact wording has shown up in more than one location so I don't know who originated it. There's a key difference between your Mike Johnson report and the wording in the Brown Mfg Co. thread: So that's different from actually coming up with his version of the game in 1935. On the other hand, Friedel had his game for sale in 1935. What we have so far is three American men being given credit for establishing Chinese Checkers in America: Pressman, Brown, Friedel. The stories about Friedel were written in 1936, the stories about the others some time later. The gist of my opinion about the Pressman and Brown versions is that they were embellished as part of a tribute to the men at the end of their careers. Much like how in their later years Berry Pink, Art Fisher and Clinton Israel were each given credit for having invented the marble machine.

ebay auction Wow. $6100. Very interesting to hear the background. Thanks Craig.

Okay . . . not so early? Still not clear on the date. Here's the thread at Marble Mental where I asked about them before. Is there a story to these? .