Steph

there would be liability issues.

Haven't heard of Vitro stock boxes from that era being marked. This is another mere hunch but I'm guessing that perhaps none were. at least not in the 30's. I'm thinking that if they had been marked -- or if many had been marked -- more might have been preserved and info about the style name "tri-lite" might have surfaced earlier in modern times. not to mention the names "du-lite" and "clear-lite". As I said, that's only a hunch. Don't take it to the bank just yet. Maybe someone else will confirm or correct.

Well, he would have meant Akro Tri-Colors. But Akro marked their boxes, like so: Pretty sure this is a Vitro Tri-Lite stock box. I.e., Vienna Vitros. I haven't been keeping all that close a look at box prices. Mostly I window shop and don't check the price tags. lol. but Vitro boxes don't come up anywhere near as often as Akro, and looking at the contents and measuring how fast my pulse is racing, I just have the idea that it would have gone higher if it had been i.d.-ed as Vitro.

What do we think about this one? Anyone seen this type of labeling back in the day, or aware of it as a modern trend? The seller doesn't say their location. Just "collection nation". Simpler than the usual etched ones. Almost makes it possibly almost maybe convincing sorta could be possibly I don't know what do you think? Same seller also sold a Beatles one recently:

This use has been stated before, but I've never seen anything like this set before. Set of 4 Large Antique 1 5/8 Swirl Marble Castors :Emoticon-jawdrop: LOL ... I'd been good about not looking at general ebay listings until just now when that box o' boxes Bo posted sent me off the wagon.

Oops, it looks like a friendly ebayer misled this seller. Just a hunch but I bet he coulda gotten more for this if it had been accurately listed. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=170329177104 wowowowowowow

LOL Ain't they just! It's so fun to have two little ones together! They're a laugh riot. Almost makes me want more. I think I better go hug my 9-year-old bebbes now before I start having unfaithful thoughts! p.s. I suppose we could bear to look at a few dogs too ... if any are brave enough to show their mugs .... Speaking of bears .... it's bear foot weather you know .....

I didn't say that. Did anybody hear me say that? Maybe it was Jon Lovitz. Yeah, that's the ticket.

I have blue based Vitro cats now !!! And more St. Mary's cats. And a coupla nice Pelt Rainbos I didn't have before. And an unusual MK rainbow (I think that's what it is .... ) .... And I can't say who sent it to me because someone might say there is a conspiracy .... but heck, some people are just darn nice!!!!!

This looks like it might be a closer up view of the contents of the box in the WVMCC pic:

Yes, there were boxes. (and thanks Joe, for showing the rest of the kokos to go with that red white and blue clip!) I think this link at the WVMCC website will take you to a photo of a box: http://www.wvmcc.citymax.com/page/page/727505.htm Here's another pair of bags, pic from ebay (ignore the vitros in between): And another pair posted here before, surrounded by other kokos I believe. (click to enlarge) Here are those two newspaper items I mentioned, both from 1941: (click to enlarge) . . .

ZZ, I think that's not likely. Most tank wash mibs probably weren't guinea-like. The frit is incidental to the true purpose of the process. Just a little something extra from what I gather, and done on a very limited basis. If you have that one sitting in England, I think we can quite safely conclude it was made as an intentional frit mib for regular production and not by Jabo. my $.02

Since you're so nice to specially remark on everyone else's kitties, let me say how distinctive Big Boy's black whisker spots look. Handsome lad. :-) We've had a variety of aggressiveness and ragdollness in our house. We've been fortunate enough to be able to work around the differences. We still have relatively young skin, though Jimmy has diabetes and I'm a little concerned about how it heals. We sweep up broken china when cats are too rambunctious. And I hold Kedo's paws steady when he's feeling cuddly -- as his attitude can change in a flash and noses suffer.

"The Batweasel" was my husband's name for a skinny little boy with a bat's ears. He was Jeanann's only kitten in her last litter. She was the absolute queen of the house. I pretended to mind. She was still kittenish when she died at age 20. Here's a pic of her at her prime. We also allow cats of lighter colors into the house, in spite of how hard it is to deal with all those different colors of cat hair on our good clothes. (Black isn't too hard to work around! LOL) . Our last housemate is Kedo. I am Kedo and I do not see any black cats.

Oh goodness, your new avatar is the best yet!

bahahaha, yes, I thought of you when I saw that! you're the reason I didn't even try to see what the article would look like with that end part trimmed out. lol

LOL Well if the rules are to provide pix of the actual bosses of the house and not pre-captioned internet cuties, here are two of the people I answer to, Joe and Brother, from 9 years go. (Their companion has passed away since then. Moment of silence for the best Batweasel there ever was.)

( Being a cat lover, I feel a need to try to distract you now with some menacing puppy eyes. :icon_lmao: )

I wrote the guy, mainly to warn a seemingly new seller about the problems people with 0 feedback have been causing marble dealers. He asked me who Scott Patrick was. I guess that's been suggested to him as a possible maker of the mibs. He seemed glad for the info I gave him in response.

Short amount of time, on a single machine purchased from Peltier. 1939 - 1942 according to one account (possibly from a company publication), after which they sold the machine back to Peltier. There is doubt about that date. It could possibly have been as late as 1945. However, it was only a sideline, to recycle Kokomo scrap glass. The sand for the Kokomo glass even came from the same place as the sand for Pelts. Though 3 to 6 years might sound significant, we are comparing one machine for that amount of time, to Peltier's multiple machines and decades of marble production. Kokomo has some distinctive mibs. Those you get to feel certain about. So I'm told. A 'signature' koko color combo:

Some more favorites. This is a small group but I've liked 'knowing' they were kokos. There was some dispute but the provenance seemed good to me (just not widely known) and they fit nicely with n2life's. (click to enlarge) And here is a bag owned by a prominent Indiana collector. :-) The pix were posted by Craig in a 2005 thread. Some of these are single patches, not the typical rainbo style. (click to enlarge) The potential range of Kokos is such a mystery to most of us. It's awesome to get a chance to see any unusual examples 'up close'. There's the continual caveat not to overidentify Kokos. I've heard from those who have reason for caution, that if there's a choice between Pelt and Koko, or Vitro and Koko, or Master and Koko, or foreign and Koko, etc., the odds of Koko are so low that the other option should be chosen. ... since so few Kokos were made, and since their distribution seems to have been concentrated more or less in the neighborhood of Kokomo, Indiana. But not having examples makes it more tempting for people to guess. I remember how I stared and stared at some tempting marbles in this bag because of the mibs I suspected might be single patches -- and I had some mibs which looked like that. I couldn't tell enough to rule the bag mibs out. So I couldn't stop wondering about them. Having really good examples might feed the "everything looks like a koko" fever, but it might have the opposite result. The other items I could add are a coupla things from Kokomo papers. Just for fun. No mibs are shown. One is about kokos being given out as freebies by someone local.

Pardon the giggle at Marble Mental. I do love rediscovering a cache of marbles and realizing how many "new" marbles I have. How many mysteries are solved. How many mysteries aren't yet, but now have brothers in the fight. When the sorting session winds down and I sort of wake up to find five hours have elapsed and the sun has gone down, that can be disconcerting but I love it.

Here is an awesome Kokomo pic which is looking for a host, sort of. So this is a thread intended for the archives. I am starting it here, to invite anyone who would like to contribute. Thanks! Here is the story from n2life71 at LOM: and a follow-up: Here are the contents of the bag in lovely detail. (click to enlarge) (photo courtesy n2life71) source, and original discussion: Anyone able or a how to repair Old Mesh bags?

Perfect!!!