Steph

Modern mibs fluoresce too. My very brightest might be my very oldest. But I have some modern marble kings which are simply brilliant. They say about 50% of Christensen bloodies will fluoresce. But that means 50% won't. And different chemicals could lead to different colors of fluorescence. I even have some glass which fluoresces a fairly strong blue. Some of the blues are modern MK's. One I sold was a vintage jar. p.s. thanks Alan for the link

yah from the movie. Have a new answer now for the question of what to do with all those clearies left over from sorting, huh? Sounds like the panel was designed specially so the marbles could "fly out quickly for shooting!" Did that make it into the movie? This is the magazine it came from, Set Decor, Summer 2005 (7 megabyte download). Article starts on p. 64. Hosted by the Set Decorators Society of America

The dragon headboard. 18,000 marbles!

Who's in the middle pic? Behind the tributes and with white hair, I mighta thought Edna ... but I thought her hair was longer!

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Wouldn't this be awesome! Like for a mib display, or for cats, though not both! ... (and I have 3 cats ) http://www.google.com/patents?id=JdNKAAAAEBAJ

NIFTY!

On the four colors, in the old ones the green vanes are opposite the blue vanes. In the two color ones, marbles with clean separation of the colors tend to be valued higher by collectors but sellers sometimes try to bill being 'hybrid' as a virtue. Here's probably the best St. Mary's thread I've seen. Hands down the best when Don's mibs were still there. I hope they can be rescued. http://marblemental.yuku.com/topic/505

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I don't know how that fits. Just thought it was funny. :icon_lmao:

YUM YUM!!

Thanks for clearing that up! (And cool about the shaping blocks!)

can we have a close-up of that pontil? :icon_lmao:

I have a red one and a purple one. Bought them on ebay. And yeah, they do look sorta like fiber optics, don't they. I wondered if that's what mine were. My first thought was goldstone, but then I went back and forth. The seller didn't know what they were, just that they were cool, with which I totally agree.

That was the title on some versions of the 1911 article here. :-) Different versions were used as filler for years. The original might have appeared in the Boston Herald. Editors apparently picked and chose which parts of the original to include, trimming it as needed to fit in the space available. The version I chose for this post includes info on where the packaging was made. There's one as late as 1918 with three of the same paragraphs, including the same production totals, but with a 4th paragraph about sizes made -- from 9/16" to 6" (size of a cannon ball). A different story appeared in 1930, without numbers, and it names the J. E. Albright Co. That one compared how Americans made clays to how it was done in Germany. (click if you want a larger print version, but it's big -- 840 kb) Here's what the Washington Post included at the end instead of mentioning where the bags were made: (click to enlarge) Here's the 1930 story as it appeared in a column called "Answers to Questions", by Frederic J. Haskin: (click to enlarge)

These are for play, but not traditional play. Do we have them yet? (Hi everyone -- this is still one of my favorite threads. :-) (source) In case that doesn't count , one industrial use for mibs was "oil-drum cleansing".

A thread which shows the evolution of what appear to me to be some fairly convincing looking fake benningtons: http://marbleconnection.com/i...showtopic=10722

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More 1930's 1933 - ? Comics 1939 (click to enlarge) I think I have Morton salt ad from 1938 also. Maybe other years also. I presume this to be a Berry Pink promo. Definitely have other examples of premiums which are or are likely his doing. Some say Marble King.

What color are these? Orange-ish? "Terra cotta" is term which showed up frequently in connection with imported items at the turn of the last century, and might eventually lead to an answer. Lots of things were made with terra cotta, if I understand correctly. Many options -- iiuc. For example, garden ornaments.

MFC 1913 - W. H. Ruch, former employee of the B & O Railroad, source: Massillon Evening Independent (OH), Dec. 27, 1913, p. 1

gorgeous! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!