Steph

I've posted this site before, http://schusserland.de/. But before they seemed to be under construction. David's post sent me over to look at them again. Lotsa pages of marbles for sale now. Marble book Marble Store They have Vacors, maybe including some not distributed in the U.S. They also have Chinese marbles. I keep hoping I'll find some of the bullet molds for sale there, since they're shown on one of the site's pages. Still haven't seen them listed but there are some other interesting ones. Examples: (yeah we've seen Clownfish before but I think they need more exposure :-)

Interesting. Thanks David. I can't get enough of those. Informationwise, I mean! lol. I don't personally have one. Some new ones: (click to enlarge) (source)

the seller knew. he got the straight dope on the marble at LOM. thanked us for the information. listed it as a Christensen.

The Bogards included 4-vane cats eyes. Some not so well-formed. But some very nicely formed.

sweet thought, Felicia. Big DITTO

David's Bogard article: C.E. Bogard & Sons Cats Eye Marbles A couple of pix from there for quick ref: The base in David's black ones seems a little blue. Don't know if that's reflection or shadow or the glass. Here's a pic Galen posted with less tinted bases on the black. p.s., amber is also a possibility in Bogard bases.

For No Particular Reason I'm "announcing" coz I told someone I would! LOL. I'm happy just to doodle on my own. Fractals and flowers are likely to be planted soon. But if'n you wanna vent about something and want it seen by marble people but don't want it at a marble board, that's one option. p.s., I don't want no stinking minion. If I had a minion I'd go to the doctor double quick and get it removed. For No Particular Reason doesn't have a philosophy. If anyone wants to get on a soap box there that's okay. But if someone singes my delicate little feelings, well, I don't know what I'll do. I won't delete posts though. Worst case, I'll turn them invisible. So if for example anyone who's been on the internets longer than Al Gore wants to say something unkind, well, fine. It'll stay on the record. Their words. Their IPs. Their M.O. Happy 4th of July. A special thanks to our Founding Fathers for their courage and honor. And to our service men and women for keeping us free. May they never have cause to regret how we use the freedoms they make possible.

wow. handgathered? wow.

Those were in a shop connected with the KOG company? That's pretty darn funny. lolol

Gary, they wouldn't have been MK's or cat's eyes because of the timeline. 1919 was too early. January 1919 could make those the very last of MFC's old stock. MFC quit making marbles in 1917 but still had old inventory to sell through 1918. And of course Akro was making marbles at the time. Could American snowflakes have been white slags?

Yah, I wondered about ceramics. Something bigger and better than plain clays. John's mibs: (and his auctions are here in case you wanna make some of them yours in the next 2 days and 3 hours. :-)

I'm not quite seeing a 1919 era American snowflake candidate in the glossary. Do you think they were the snowflake obsidian marbles? I wondered if it could be a mistake and some German marbles got labeled American. But how likely was that going to be in January of 1919?

One new subscriber gets you a nice lot of marbles. Anyone know what an American Snowflake was? p.s., I know that Snow Flake was a name for Mica marbles, but those would be European, right?

yes, many generous people! Just wanted to take the opportunity to send a shout out to Felicia as she's having a bit of a hard time. And she does go above and beyond.

Nice thoughts Brian. If it wouldn't be considered a hijack, I'd like to add that Felicia is uniquely generous. Very special lady. Did you have a chance to see these old style marble bags she crocheted? She sent them to me as a gift.

Here's one I'm not certain everyone would agree has aventurine. Somedays I can't be sure I see it. Not clear which sparkle is aventurine and which is wear. But it's there. lol ... pretty sure ...

"sheen" is a good word for how some aventurine shows up. I wouldn't personally call it metallic. But as I said I have a hard time describing it. I'm thinking of a sheen across the color band. Not a sheen on an individual flake "used" is a tricky word. not sure aventurine was "used". I think it was a by-product.

Well, actually .... Sometimes it sparkles only a little. There are some pelts with enough aventurine to qualify as having it in an auction ID, but not enough to wow you. Sometimes even if there is a lot of aventurine it can be hard to describe what it does -- it can glisten more than sparkle. in my rookie opinion

yum yum yum yum yum and might I add, YUM! Great story! suhweet mibs. p.s. Does anyone else see the face in the cullet or is it just me?

Well, the image name is last_dig_015 ... Are they dug? :-) I love hearing about dug mibs. :-)

Hi Bill. Your 'just because' pix are great but this one has me curious ... would like to hear more about these. the pic has an interesting name. :-)

Nothing too private to say here. I just don't want to stir up any more confusion. We've been through enough.

Carole, ziggyzora was quoting something she'd been sent. She wasn't saying that she knew you or that you and she had spoken to each other. I think I've figured out what happened. I can email you about it if you'd like.

Hey M!b$, don't you wish the seller had shown more of that mib? Here's one more thing to ponder. Well, you were wondering about the colors so I guess this is more for people like me who might still be hung up on the structure. but check out the disappearing tricks the yellow plays on Craig's Blue Galaxy here. And Craig's was only 5/8". A large mib gives more room for goofy things to happen. Anyway, the seller does accept returns. Maybe in a coupla weeks the feedback will show what the buyer thinks.

29/32" would be a bit over 7/8". What about 7/8" give or take would make Vacor seem less likely? Anyway, if Pelt it could have come in a box like Greg's here: Some More Rainbos, No. 6 Pelt NLR Stock Box. For the record, and for sake of discussion, a coupla more pix from the auction: