Steph

sweet

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

diddo

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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! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peltier 1944 - Daniel William Lawrence, Pres. of L. U. No. 61 of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union (source)

One more topic I wish I'd started awhile back. I read something recently about someone thinking Akro hadn't employed a glass chemist. That triggered a memory of some of the marble factory job titles I saw in censuses from the 20's and 30's. I can't remember if glass chemist was one at Akro. It seemed as if it might have been but the memory isn't coming into focus yet and I don't see it right now in my notes. I don't think I even kept notes of all of the employee names I've found. But I will start a list now and try to keep it up. Random info someone might find a use for someday.

In 1957 a movie was made of the VFW national tourney in Seattle. It was shown at VFW meetings. In 1951, Sellers Peltier was one of five "small town personalities" showcased on a Chicago television show. The WGN film crew had taken "movies" at the Peltier factory. Parts were dubbed into the program. Do those films still exist?

Woohoo!

Didja know kids back in the day used lard to restore their mibs? Soak your alley taws in lard and the moons disappear. Read one account where lard was used as a preventative measure also. Soak your new taw overnight and supposedly it's less likely to be damaged in the game the next day.