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Happy Birthday Leroy ! ! !

I'm getting conflicting information about the introduction of Chinese Checkers to America. Some sources give Pressman credit, with a date of 1928, but that seems out of line with other records. If Pressman did come up with it in 1928 there sure was a delayed reaction before it caught on. Does anyone have evidence for earlier than December 1935? By someone other than the J. F. Friedel Co. of Syracuse, NY?

Here's a comparison of the images. The Skeezix is a better copy than the Sandy. Of course it's still fake. by that way, anyone here familiar with a peerless patch with a yellow patch like that?

Whoa, yeah Mark, that bid history is a beaut. (edit: oops, sorry, Craig!) Bill, look at the blue. It's the most obvious MK structure - modern Rainbow style not Peerless patch. Blue patch on either end.

Oh yes, did I mention . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRL! Have a great day tomorrow!

I really can't tell whether it is a slag or a swirl. Could the red be oxblood? and by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

very VERY nice! It's almost like it's your birthday or something! SWEET MIBS!

I never knew that. I totally thought it was fancy painted, rebuilt cars. doh! Until you suggested Kokomo had a plant for them. double doh!

That link isn't working for me. This one hopefully will. http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/marblealan p.s. YUM!

Lovely, and completely new to me.

My favorite color is somewhere in here.

Nifteroony ! ! !

Congratulations Ruth!

What's a Mopar?

I know I got it this time! Cleveland! Right?

That's Champion = winner. Not Champion = Champion Agate Co. Like Champion Jr. not equal Champion Agate Co.

Thanks. That's cool. Meshes with and fleshes out my general impressions. "Agate" types. Yes, I know that vocabulary. Good distinction from the Onyx types. LOL. Anyway, here are pix of a possibly 1932-ish package containing feathered slags together with tweeners, i.e., "marbles which some call rainbos and some say look like they might be from the NLR era" . . *inhale deeply*.

The little bit I know is that the date seems funky for new slag developments. Not impossible, but in competition with other developments at Peltier. Mike what do you know about when NLRs were made? My best guess is that they were on their way out in 1932. The mibs I think of as "tweeners" seem to be popping up in packaging from about that year. On the other hand, I think that slags and tweeners have been found together in the same 1932-ish packaging.

Not a magic marker mib but those strokes sure look close to magic marker mib strokes. pretty wild . . . (source) (I'm going to win the set so no one bid, 'kay? lolol)

Bump. I also posted it at GA. Hope that's okay. Surprising for the ones with signatures to go unID-ed. http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/2787

Dustin is at 70 today. Guess it's an okay time for a bump. Two more weeks of voting!

Alabama? New Jersey? wait, wait, don't tell me. I can figure this out!

uh sorry, Paula. I was too busy shuddering over machinery to reload before I posted. I've only just now recovered enough to see that you posted minutes before me. (now that I'm back from a therapeutic session of playing with kitty cats)

There's was a patent submitted in 1928 which talks about transparent base glass and it talks about controlling the ribbons somewhat. Mentions "one or more" openings through which ribbon glass could go. I don't know whether this patent was for slags or for more multi-color marbles or whether it was even ever used. It's one which has been mentioned before in possible connection with feathering because it talks about jiggling the glass somehow. As curious as I am about it I'm reluctant to talk about it 'coz it's a patent - for a machine *shudder* - and it could be years and years before I understand it, at least without some help. So, my general question right now, which I hope is connected enough to Ann's question, is/was something like Are those patents worth studying for figuring out feathering. Or have the people who know Pelt stuff well gone through them and ruled them out for feathering? Maybe ruled them in for other types of mibs? And Mike of course knows the Pelt stuff.

Mike, your answer is provocatively simple. Does that mean you don't attribute the feathering to any particular processes described in any particular patents? Is it still on the level of unsolved mystery for you?