Steph

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.

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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:

Hello Everyone,

I have an old Kokomo 30 count mesh bag (Blue Stitch with Yellow Mesh). This bag with marbles are Mint and orginal (white/clear base marbles, not the more common, but scarce blue based). I picked it up from the orginal owner a few years ago, after his 2 year old got hold of it. All that happened is the mesh came loose, NOT RIPPED, from the blue stitch; which appears to be a chain type stitch. ....

and a follow-up:

Yes Steve,

Was a sealed bag before the 2 year old got ahold of it. He bought them as a child and has had them ever since, then I got them about 3 years ago. Been in a ziplock bag till I photograph them today.

All orginal to that bag. Enjoy and I hope everyone can learn from these.

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!!!

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!

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

misunderstood

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?

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