Steph

What I'm watching right now instead of whatever I'm supposed to be doing:

Bee-Vo Bell Gun Don Miller posted a picture on facebook of his gun, with a Tiger Eye in it. When you shoot it, a bell rings. I went straight to eBay to see if I could get one cheap. This buy-it-now was tempting to me, but I've spent enough on marbles for a bit. Vintage NOS BEE-VO BELL GUN 204 Plastic Space Gun 1950's. Very Rare | eBay

Stellar!

Nice!

Jabo.

At that size, gotta be Jabo.

My favorite picture of these was posted by @hrjane, if I recall correctly. She had a group of them where one or more still had the kindergarten foil star attached. Some of the pictures in this auction show the ball mill ball crazing pretty well. I can't recall if I ever had one with the star.

Oh, Rick, you didn't have to fess up to that! I fixed your post before I made my post. Sure is funny how things go sometimes. How much can get missed when you only know someone online.

Groan @ Ric. (lol) Happy birthday to you, Chris.

Our activity level is increasing. We might be approaching a critical mass where a trading game could happen again. There's certainly nothing to stop a guess the marble count game with some prize, even if the owner of the jar doesn't want to give their marbles away!

I still didn't feel I was seeing the seams, but maybe I do. I am getting a sense of squareness, not a Mastery V. With the colors, bubbles, and glass texture -- even before I saw your mention of the other marbles that it was with -- I am more strongly leaning Peltier.

Jabo, Champion, Alley all come to mind.

Akro seems a good possibility. However, I'm not really getting a good feel for the structure. Views in different lighting might help. And featuring the cutlines of course. I'm not quite recognizing any Akro style that I know of. The green seems more pale and the base more UV than I would expect on the basic two-color patch known as Royal. I'm also considering Peltier.

Akro Royal. No oxblood.

I am at work now so I haven't checked it out on my home computer, but I finally realized I do have that capacity. When I try to print something, I am offered the option of saving to PDF. And I'm able to choose the page range for printing. So, yeah, I could have gotten it myself. I just never thought to "print" it.

Thanks! I do have Windows 10. I'll hunt for that tool.

Don't forget the possibility of Vacor Old Fashion. DETAILED INFORMATION (billes-en-tete.com)

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!

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