Steph

In this subforum, we are trying to gather historical marble documents. It could be advertisements, articles, patents, company ephemera, etc. Fun items are welcome as well as more serious or technical. We especially hope to see items where dates are known. In those cases, please put the date at the start of the thread title. If you know the month and day as well as the year, then using this format will be helpful for us: YYYY-MM-DD. For example, 2022-03-06 for March 6, 2022. The subforum has an option to sort threads by title. Using that date format will allow the documents to be sorted in chronological order.

The guest commenting is turned back off. There is a notice that un-logged-in browsers have to sign in to comment. Should be no more confusion there.

Well, I'm heading out for the evening. Nobody be alarmed if anything else goes wrong. We'll get it all fixed!

Yeah, we used to be able to post as guests, then Jason made it so we couldn't, but now that's back again. Not sure what happened. I split Bill's post from here over to a new thread over there and let Jason know about the guest posting. We have wrinkles to iron out.

If I understand your question, I'll say yes. With the 1955 Sports Illustrated thread, I almost started a new thread with the images and planned to just give credit to the original poster. In the end, I moved the whole thread because it was relatively short and had good info in it. But if you find some document you'd like to highlight, starting a new thread with it and giving credit is a fine plan. When I'm finding photobucket images, I'm not simply linking to them. I'm transferring them to this site because I just don't trust the photobucket images not to completely disappear.

You may have noticed our new subforum: Marble-Related Documents, News, Etc., Especially Items with Dates - Marble Connection The idea is to have a place where it's easy to find historical documents which currently have a tendency to slip to the back pages of the forum. We want to especially focus on items that we know the dates for. You'll notice that we're putting the year at the start of the thread title. The subforum has an option to sort by thread title. With the year listed first, a reader can quickly put the items into chronological order. So if you have a series of Butler Brothers catalog ads, for instance, then make separate threads for the 1892 ads and the 1905 ads. We're going with a "keep it simple" approach to thread content. As a general rule of thumb, we're encouraging essentially one item per thread. That way the title of the thread can be descriptive of the content. Of course, if you have a related series of documents, such as back-and-forth communications between two companies which spanned many months, then it would make sense to have that all in a single thread. If you have an amazing item that you don't know the date of, then it's still welcome! Maybe at least a general date will be found in subsequent discussion and we can edit the title. Not everything has to be academic or technical or dry. Fun items are welcome too. And some of the things which get posted will be nonfactual, but that can be fun too. Do you have any idea how many men were credited with inventing the machine which started the machine-made marble industry? I don't have a count, but I've come across the claim often. I'm pretty sure Berry Pink and Art Fisher both got credit at some point for inventing Martin F. Christensen's machine. A lot of not-quite-right lore found its way into newspapers. We'll take it in stride.

Gave it a shot with off-the-top-of-my-head marble words just for practice. Aggies, Bloodies, Miggles. Yeah, it could be fun.

I pulled these from another thread and now have them saved to the forum instead of to Photobucket. I probably have larger copies of these pages on disk. If I find them, hopefully I'll be able to upload them. And hopefully these will be useful and enjoyable for now.

Ron beat me to it. At that size, the choices are very limited.

Lovely. I could not have marbles displayed like that. I would spill them for sure. But nice job.

I'm thinking Jabo, which would mean not a slag. But I'm not 100% sure. The big beautiful pictures show a lot more detail than I'm used to noticing in a Jabo Classic.

Jabo

I still can't place it. Am considering Vitro.

I don't see Asian. I would be asking Jabo or Champion .... and I don't know the answer.

Maybe more views on the green and yellow could help.

One vote for normal Pelt Rainbo.

Tapioca pudding was better when I was a child. Before society said we would die if we consumed uncooked eggs.

Glass companies definitely deliberately used the names of stones to try to make glass marbles sound more like children's beloved stone marbles. In 1930 in America, a lawsuit was filed with the government by the onyx industry to force some glass companies to stop calling their products "onyx". The suit was successful. Akro still used the name onyx for awhile after that. Not sure why they got away with it, but they didn't keep doing it for long. The stone aventurine was named after the glass aventurine -- did you know that? Aventurine glass was discovered and named in the 1700's.

Agree with Akro Another one that I think would have been put out under the company name of "Moss Agate". But modern collectors do indeed use the name "Ace" for some of these nonpatches with mossy bases. P.s. I'm only assuming non-patch here. I can't tell from the orientation of the photos. If it's a patch marble, then flat out Moss Agate.

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Art, I agree that your marble is a Popeye.

I was referring to Jeremy's marble. The one in the first post. My first thought was that it was a marble that Akro would have called a Moss Agate. And then lighting up as it does additionally nailed it down as a Limeade in my mind.

What I'm seeing is a marble that Akro sold as a Moss Agate and that collectors call a Limeade. At least that's what I thought I saw, until I saw so many other collectors not seeing it!

x3 on no Pelt. However, the right one might be a Marble King.

Yeah, multicolor on the last marble, not a sunset. For sure "not just a rainbo" there!