Steph

forgive me for not LOL-ing in a timely manner at this. I wondered if this was the King of the Hill movie ... not sure why I pictured that being set in California ... so I went in search of it to find out. Naw it wasn't it. So, now a belated LOL. Little Lord Fauntleroy was set in the 1880's ... so those marbles weren't period. Well, the jaspers were.

Here's a video preview of King of the Hill, which just went on my DVD wish list. Jimmy's going to think I'm asking for the cartoon. Better go explain that one to him. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2559836441/ (nice marble display in the preview. gonna be fun to watch in the movie)

yeah, I love the CJ commercial. vid-caps? That's greek to me. But you did make me realize I might be able to view the DVD on this fancy word processor here, and maybe get a screen capture. And lo and behold I could. Can't fine tune it like I did on the television, but this will give you an idea.

What's confusing me on yours ... it looks like the right color, but it seems as if I can see through it. Ox shouldn't be transparent. Now I'm wondering ... is it in particles? (does that question make any sense?) Little pixels of oxblood could give the right color, and then if there are minute separations between the particles that could give transparency. oh brother ... I'm going out on a limb this time. LOL

Zora, please ignore my answer. All I know is sparklers can have what folks call oxblood, and to me yours look like they do. Both of them. As to the swirl, I can't tell. I shouldn't have tried to answer. Hopefully someone else will play clean up for me.

Thanks Ron. Sounds like the odds are in favor of my pair being Ravenswood. (glowing with brown swirls)

That is indeed neat Carole. Delicate. Lovely. Your first sparkler sure looks like ox from here, Zora, and the 2nd looks close enough that I'd say yes based on your in-hand hunch that it is. The swirl ... does look like what I thought might be called horsehair when it was in a pistachio base, even though it doesn't look like actual ox to me. I think I was probably wrong about what I thought was horsehair ox on the two examples I used to have. It was thread-like, but distinctly brown, not a hint of brick or red. Thanks everyone for the input and examples!

Anyone have any favorite horsehair oxbloods they could share? Insight into what all goes by that name? Some is actually ox, right? some could be other company's bricks or browns? thanks!

Nice. Not horsehair though. Sometimes the term is used for just a strand of obvious oxblood. Often I think for mibs with threads of something brownish which probably isn't traditional ox. ?? The "hair" part is the operative term. :-) Looking for something sorta thready. I know ... pix would be good here. maybe someone can help out! :-) I'll start a new thread to ask about horsehair because I still would like to hear more about who made pistachio .... (swirls and otherwise)

I have two Leave It to Beaver marbles episodes on video, the one with Larry and the one with the Beav running away from home. He took his marbles along in case any hobos wanted to play. Thought of them when I saw the marbles here! ... coz I was so surprised and happy to see detail on the marbles in Little Lord Fauntleroy! in contrast to what was showing in the leave it to beaver episodes. those were plain. I wondered if they'd gone out of their way not to seem to be endorsing any company. Here's a video where you can recognize the maker of the featured marble!

LOL not zactly the response I was expecting. sorry I got you in trouble. Our copy is on a cheapo DVD set. 20 movie "family pack". :-)

nice capture on that fluorescence! I have a couple which fluoresce like that. I think my brown may be a little creamier and more opaque. (should be a good coffeehouse word for it, but I don't know it yet) I used to have a couple with a similar base and what I think may have been horsehair oxblood. But that was before I'd seen good pix of horsehair oxblood so I wasn't sure and they're gone now so I can't confirm.

I agree that the first is closer to what I think of as the actual nut color. And "minty" is also a word which comes to mind when I see the 2nd. I thought the 2nd was called pistachio when folks were describing marble colors though, so I wanted to get confirmation. I think I have. The question now is, is yours also called pistachio ... by marble people, that is?! ?? And another question is who made it? p.s., does yours fluoresce?

In Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1936, with Freddie Bartholomew. The boy plays marbles with his grandfather. You get a pretty good view of them. There are some swirls, maybe a few patches and some larger white-ish marbles with a little bit of marble-ing. I think those could be jaspers. With that date, I think the only choices for the swirls are Alleys and Ravenswoods. Right now I'm leaning toward Ravenswood. Go get the movie and tell me what you think! LOL

Thanks for all the input so far! Did Alley use a pistachio base too? Who might have used it in their patch (non-swirl) type marbles? Master? Akro?

p.s. here are two candidates for Pistachio. Do you agree with either or both, as far as the name for a color in marbles?

Two questions. 1. What shade is 'pistachio' to you? 2. Which marble makers had pistachio in their color palette? Sorry Bob ... not trying to distract from the clear thread! which is progressing magnificently! I have a specific reason for this question. :-)

and the new Jabo Joker cyclone is oxblood in clear ...

I thought I'd see how Kevin's spun honey mib photographed outside: not bad ....

Tim, how about Vitro on #2 and #3? #1, the wirepull ... the name which comes to mind is Hopf & Hopf. I don't know how many other people may have made them also.

What a shock. Prayers for strength and comfort to her family. This is such sad news. Things will be so different without Patry.

What they call Type IV Tiger Eyes are opaque. There are also Tiger Eyes and Tiger Eye kin which are not in that list of four types. For example the transparent whities are not in that list, but at least count as kin. And count as actual Tiger Eyes in some people's book. Edna is the first person I remember grouping blackies with tiger eyes, but it does make sense. Of course they were sold under their own name, but the construction looks the same. . imho. ah, you added another question while I was typing ... Vitros which aren't veneered? how about the tri-lites? Hope someone else can address your question more fully. I felt up to the challenge when it was only about opaque Tiger Eyes. :-) About the rest of the Vitro possibilities ... well ...

I got some of those latest creations in the mail today! straight from Dave! (*faint*) I'll post them in a separate Jabo thread though and leave this one open for folks to add their traditional Vitros.

Don't worry about that! !!! Stand up right now and take a bow! You are :cool sign:

The Vitro book says the Parrots and Parakeets are "related to the Tiger-Eye line". :-) m!b$, by 'on a veneered base', do you mean on clear base? Tiger Eyes aren't always on a clear base. I think they are always veneered though.