Steph

I thought that "everybody" knew about Champ and Alley ox. Vitro ox isn't even surprising anymore. Pelt ox quit being surprising some time back. But did any of them have ox which wasn't an accidental byproduct of the coloring agents involved? For example, I've been noticing a lot of ox floating around near aqua shades. This seems likely accidental. To me. At present. IMHO. etc. etc. I'm figuring copper was used to make the aqua shade (just a guess - looking for confirmation or correction someday). With regard to "Vitro ox", there is some which doesn't hover around near aqua or green, right? But that kind doesn't look so much like Akro ox?

One more. Just one. LOLOL. I love solids. Coz (a) I like to sort colors and (b ) sometimes they surprise ya! These aren't mine but I can't find the pic of mine. I have one which might fit in this box. If the ones in this box are hand-gathered and light up like an a-bomb test site under blacklight. I think I asked once if they were hand-gathered but didn't hear back on that. Alrighty, someone else's turn.

LOL. Bill's commons are fancier than most of my fanciest but here are a few more of my commons anyway. Albert's marbles are about as plain and common as marbles can get, huh.

Here's an old fave: Just an ordinary blackline all-red. Just your average vitro all-red. It has one proper seam, and then ... it corks on the other side. I don't want to slight well-behaved all-reds tho'. I like them also.

(pronounced OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH)

my vote is Vacor. Style name possibly Orca. http://emarbles.com/mega_loose.htm

Who has room to talk? . . . a lotta people can dish it out but not take even a taste of what they hand out.

I was pretty sure I recognized the handwriting also. :-)

cockadoodledoo.

i thought your visits had gone rather smoothly of late. sorry you feel bad. take care.

Kewl! remember helmets are advised during road rallies

Hey, if anyone leaves, I would. Don't you do it Dani. I'm sure I'll get into the game spirit later but I have mixed feelings about it now. When is the deadline for a decision?

ooops, I forgot: IMHO ! (havin' fun wid da new smileys)

Then it coulda been called Vitro the sequel! (lol) stead of "the" Vitro Thread.

But if people who have been collecting less time than **** don't say it, they get ****-ed at. LOL Better safe than at.

I found the thread but the pix are gone. It had blue and green and yellow if that helps any!

Sorry, don't know what to say on this one. I also thought you might need to get an email and respond to that to verify yourself. But I guess that whatever it is you need to do to verify yourself, you won't get a chance to if you cannot click the button to agree. And yes, if you're not seeing the button to hit, then it does seem like a javascript problem. But is it your problem Javascript problem or theirs? I experience MANY Javascript errors at Yuku. I guess you could try to start over with a different name and see if today you get all the right buttons. ORRRRR, you could get someone else to register a name for you and then use that account.

Go Cheeseheads!

I'll toss Alley on the table for consideration.

Dood! No wonder I can't find any supermenz! Nice hoard!

Here is the thread which prompted me to fish out the article above: Go Steelies Check out the list of patents for "jingle bell" style spheres.

Hehe, funny how I feel like I'm about to hijack Ann's question. A comment about Miller machines probably shouldn't be a hijack to a thread like this, but it is, coz the subject of Miller machines seems so different from the subject of Miller swirls! LOL But didja know . . . ? Somewhere it has been said that Miller was a Pelt employee. I believe he had his own company though. And if I recall correctly, some of the marble machines he made were used by a company which made box labels - used to make the glass graining balls for the lithography plates. Mike, would all of Miller's machines have been "just the rollers"? Or might he have supplied more components for some? Any idea?

At various times I was defending the "untouchable" and then the seller of one of the sulphides. (edit: er, at least I guess you mean Hansel, who is apparently touchable. or did you mean the topic of making new marbles?) If the goal of this thread was to inform people of marbles which might be mistaken for antique, fine. If the goal was to criticize some particular someone for being one of many to have new marbles made in the 20th or 21st century, then it is justifiable for someone to defend him. Should no one be allowed to make new marbles because they confuse people who are collecting old ones? I happen to have a problem with reasoning along those lines. Forgeries are going to be made, they're not going to be signed, and we are responsible for educating ourselves about them. New marbles commissioned in an aboveboard manner, and sold as new by both the person who commissioned them and by the person who made them, that's not forgery. Craig got burned. It wasn't Hansel's fault. Thank you much Craig, for bringing these to our attention. That sort of thing needs to be done periodically to educate new generations of collector. It's been an interesting thread. I didn't know much about the modern sulphides. But I wasn't in the market for sulphides either. If I had been I would likely have consulted someone, e.g., Sue or Hansel, before investing, so maybe I would have learned about these then. Good to have the information on record for those without ready access to such collectors. We'll need more reminders later, of course. But thanks for this one.