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Steph

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  1. Thanks Mike. Sorry for the bad advertising there. It was my least favorite too. But it's mine. It was one of the first five mansions offered on ebay. I put bids on all five. That's the only one no one competed for. mica in transparent green in sheet glass form? ah, so the mica isn't just tossed in ... It's pre-coupled with the green glass. That's cool.
  2. Not weird at all. The principal players on Lizzy's board have been the harshest voices on other boards, but they use their "inside" voices at her board. It's easy for her board to stay nice. The leadership wouldn't dream of doing or allowing what they themselves did here before they left, and continued to do from time to time since Lou kept the door open and allowed them the privilege of posting. They are always on their best behavior over there. If anyone slips, there is a gentle reminder and that's enough. Everyone posting at Lizzy's board wants it to do well. Very easy to keep things nice that way. Even easier now that the people who were most likely to be bored with the restrictions have Scott's board to go to and release their more mischievous urges. lol You, Derrick, have illustrated how people who play nicely at Lizzy's board sometimes do not show the same consideration here, and even on occasion go out of their way to throw this board off balance. You are the one who posted the link here to Scott's board at his request. I know the link was posted at Lizzy's, but you know it was done with an entirely different motive. No one was inviting Lizzy's membership to a board where Lizzy's board was being trashed. You've shown some ambivalence, sometimes being constructive and only sometimes moaning, but there are people who literally only post here to say that it is going downhill. And some have attempted more direct sabotage. It was that type of damaging behavior Lou alluded to in this part of his message to Galen: Scott was blocked from posting after he hijacked two separate threads to attack Kevin. When Kevin sidestepped the first attack and the thread stayed on topic, Scott renewed his attack in the first thread and started a new one in a second. Later Kevin was suspended for responding here in a particularly unsavory way to horrible things which Scott said over there about him, and about Lou and Sue. I do not know the exact reasons anyone else was blocked. But I know Lou had reasons. It is one thing to disagree about a subject and even to lose one's temper while debating it with passion. It is entirely different to post with a general disdain for the people on the board or maybe even the intent to drag the board down. And no, I never had a general disdain for the people on the board. Someone is going to say it somewhere, but it isn't so. So don't go there. I had general frustration but not general disdain.
  3. However, though I still believe that Lou's decisions weren't founded on what anyone said elsewhere, it is interesting to recall that certain things which have been said here have resulted in the banning and/or blocking and/or outright termination of membership of people at Lizzy's board, a board which has the support of Rick, Galen, many of those participating in this thread and most of those posting at MKA. If I understand correctly, the reason Lizzy gave the one person who enquired about the termination of their membership was something to the effect of: after reading their posts here she didn't think they would want to continue to be a member at her site. Others of her former members decided not to bother to ask why they were experiencing ongoing computer malfunctions when they attempted to log on over there.
  4. m!b$, Rick's verison is an extreme simplication of part of something Lou wrote to Galen. Some of the things which were said at MKA reveal a lack of good will toward this board but Lou wouldn't ban anyone simply for something they said at a remote site. Well, I shouldn't say never. Maybe he would if it were bad enough. But obviously there is more to the situation than that.
  5. This is sort of a question, or it was going to be a question, but I think I may have figured it out ... No, still a question. How much of the green sparkley stuff in the Last Dances is mica, and how much is aventurine? I was thrown at first by Edna's mention of "green mica", but now I realize that a lot of the sparkle in the green glass is reflections off of flat flakes. What color is the mica itself? Some stray pieces outside the green glass still look green but I suspect that might be reflected color. Sometimes tilting makes the green bits look closer to silver. And the Eagles have mica also? Here is my Peltier Mansion with mica. One piece caught the light great for the auction photo:
  6. Intriguing marble. I half expected another name to be suggested. Not that I know of any. Just somehow expected it.
  7. I'm so sorry, Ron. Take care.
  8. Douglas Wiltraut's "Looking At The Moon" the story of the painting ...
  9. Putting aventurine in and getting aventurine out was historic. In April 2008 it couldn't be known that it would ever happen again. These are pix from the auction which closed on April 15 at $178.
  10. What issue are you suggesting Galen was banned over?
  11. I think that's a bull's eye. Sort of appropriate for cupid day. :-)
  12. I thanked Lou for taking a stand against abusive posting. I knew he had suspended someone who went way way over the line. I think the rule against harrassment is an important one. I didn't know he had banned Galen. Does Galen object? According to Galen, the owner of a board "can do whatever he wants" and "really shouldn't have to explain why he does anything he choses to do". Well, he said that about Pete a couple of weeks ago. Does he think differently now? As to me being banned, I did shake things up, didn't I. (sorry about that Lou) I don't remember whining or crying though. I defended myself, others stood up for me, and I was unbanned.
  13. Steph

    All About Marbles

    I enjoyed -- in a secular, sociological way -- how scripture was invoked to reinforce the wholesome image of marbles as a wholesome activity. Then the crescendo elevating marbles to the key to success in life. Charming. And then the commercial -- where Cornelians are said not only to be a perfect match for real agates but they're even better than real agates. It's fun to see the hype from the safe distance of decades.
  14. Time Magazine article: The Most Disturbing Artist You've Never Heard Of from the article:
  15. There's the rub, Derrick. Thanks, Lou.
  16. The 1926 booklet in its entirety. (click to enlarge) The 4 page advertisement insert starts here:
  17. Three more early ones, boxes patented July 13, 1915 (click pix to enlarge) The patent: . .
  18. But they delight all children! Here is an ad for a similar box, with a change of address. This might be the first Clarksburg ad. Appears to from about 1916: (click to enlarge)
  19. Lovely. It would be cool to have a red/white/blue mib collection. I'm thinking particularly about a machine-made focus, since those are fascinatingly, frustratingly difficult to identify. I'd like to have a well-id-ed collection of vintage red/white/blues all together for purposes of study. :-)
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