Steph

I have a peewee moonie! I put it aside in such as "safe" place that I forgot about it but I found it again yesterday. 15/32", with fish eyes and fire inside.

p.s., yes, Darla's is slightly fluorescent. If you look at it next to a popeye you might miss the glow.

Darla, as you may have already seen by now, these are examples of Leopards: Posted by Ronnie here, Can Anyone Id This Akro Agate Marble. His were dug. In that thread, Dani explains that was actually her husband who named them ... 20 years ago. In post #3 there Derrick linked to an old thread of Lizzy's where she had posted another dug example. That thread is gone, but here are the thumbnails she posted. Her base looked pretty light in those pix. Yours is a medium to light greenish. Bottle green might be a good term for it.

Darla has a Leopard and some other "interesting" akros. Like a totally whacked out Indian Blanket. Is the Leopard a positive sign that she got her hands on at least one dug marble?

Thanks Al. I forgot about that bag. Dave (orbboy) posted one with sunbursts.

That was this thread. http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/i...?showtopic=9158 Since Brian's size info was given in one post, and updated in another, here's the summary. His red examples range from .574 inch to .98 inch. But if you allow non-red examples, he gets down to .555 inch.

Yes, that's the part which sparkles a little. :-)

The Jokers stand out in pix, that's for sure. But the Tributes get better and better in hand as you focus in on them. The colors are phenomenal. Some wonderful striping action. I have one where a peach-tinged yellow blends to orange, then the stripes start: clear, gold, purpley brown, maroon, darker purple, gold, greenish gold, olive, teal, a weird ox blend, more teal, almost black ox, teal, clear, and back to the blushing yellow. dude! did I mention stray bits of glitter? (Edna, that's one of the ones I still haven't been able to match to one of the style names.)

Thanks for the confirmation. I "knew" that but was still insecure in saying so.

Pat, here's a screenshot so that you can see the right code with the brackets still there. As Lou said it's hard to explain in writing, because the brackets disappear when they're typed in the message. The top line in the image is what your signature looks like right now. The next line shows where your name should be ... between the size tags. Should be just a matter of deleting your name from the end and retyping it between the tags. (Spaces are not necessary, but shouldn't affect it either. I included them for visibility.)

Check the marbles on the right of Brian's pic from your flinties thread: The red and purple have at least one eye apiece. It's possible that they do not have a matching eye on the other side, but if they do, then if you hold them up toward a light at the correct angle, you should be able to see the light coming through the center of the marble. Probably with an orange glow. (I think I have heard of one color which doesn't have the glow ... might have been blue?) Another nice flintie eye brought to us by Brian:

Yeah, Sue, I was also waiting for someone else with more knowledge to answer, but I finally gave in. Mary, another thing to keep in mind is that not all translucent marbles are akro. Not even all translucent marbles with "fire" inside -- the orange glow you see when you hold them up to the light. For instance, Champion and I think maybe even Jabo made swirls which are frequently mistaken for moonies. So, that's the clue there ... they're swirled inside. Akro Moonies and Flinties are not swirls.

Mary, the first thing I would point out is that Flinties aren't clear. The earliest flinties looked practically transparent when you held them to a light, but they were still translucent. Something which may not be known is that not all flinties had the fish eyes. The earliest, most nearly clear flinties did not have eyes. (unless I am mistaken both in what I have read and in the name of one of my early flint-colored akros) As they became less translucent, some got eyes. There are even virtually opaque flinties, but you can see the orange glow through them if they do have the fish eyes. Without the eyes, the most nearly opaque ones may be indistinguishable from other companies' game marbles but the ones which are closest to being clear still stand out. Here are some photos of Flinties and Moonies in original packaging. Box 1: Box 2: Box 3:

And a bump for me. I remember a discussion a while back about whether a super colorful marble Alan i.d.ed as a Meteor should have been a Sunburst instead. What if it shouldn't have been either? If I remember correctly Alan's reason was that the marble couldn't be a Sunburst because it didn't have a tranparent base, but is there evidence for meteors with 5 colors? Was there a time when Master didn't have style names at all for most of its marbles?

Jackson from David Chamberlain's Jackson article at Marble Mental

Champion Burt's "wirepulls": Rick Rines said these are from the 1970's:

Alley

First, a good thread for an introduction into the difference between slags and transparent swirls: Clueless About Slags. See Dani's comparison in post #5. Which companies made them? (most information coming from Amer. Mach.-Made Marbles) Akro at least accidentally or experimentally. Alley Alox Cairo Novelty Champion Christensen Davis Heaton Jabo Jackson Peltier, in a way Playrite Ravenswood Vacor Vitro (Anacortes) And next will be some examples identified by maker. No idea how many examples might eventually be.

What names have Masters been sold under? The brand names and/or style names I've seen so far: Comet Clearie Cloudy Sunburst Meteor Glassies Opal Game Climax Unique Royal Hero Cat's Eye Package labels: Ritzy Master Marble, with no extra style name attached Liberty Shooting Star, as noted below by Al Chinese Checkers, as noted below by Al

yeah, i use babel fish for text. I shoulda said I wish I "knew" German, not just could read it. babel fish didn't make me feel secure enough to actually make contact through email. forget about trying out the phone number. ;-)

Now everyone can have their own personal wvron! (while supplies last lol) Great pics Edna.

Sure wish I could read German to find if/where these can be gotten. (company site)

Someone else's idea actually, but I think it's great.

Don't know how popular clearies were in the 70's but they've been big sellers in times past. Bogard didn't have a lot of luck with toy marble sales in general. Jack Bogard did lots of work making a market for industrial marbles as agitators in aerosol cans. Industrial marbles is what his focus was. He took that with him to Jabo. (He's the Bo in Jabo.)

Thank you all. And thanks for the opportunity, Lou.