Steph

Great info. Thanks!

Thanks guys. Lovely set, Charles. That's three different stained glass designs now. wonder how many more are out there. ...

This cute little number was in a 2006 Morphy auction. Do you think this could have been the original packaging? Some of the patterns on the jobber boxes are sorta blurring for me. Different makers seem to be found in similar boxes. Did different companies make similar boxes? or are they likely all from the same source? popular boxes which different companies bought because they were attractive without worrying about branding issues? Here's another one which isn't all that close I guess, but felt similar in my memory until I looked it up. like I said, they're blurring for me. One good reason to ask a question about it. Would both of these be called "stained glass"?

I'm still not sure why the 1931 date was given. I asked the seller but didn't hear back. Someone else with one of those sets told me theirs didn't have a date on it. so ... don't know ... "pre-war" seems safe though, don't you think?

neat lyric, Joe.

I did a vid-cap?! oh boy! Still no King of the Hill. But four times Jimmy has asked me which season of the cartoon I want him to buy. He's just so hilarious. The Kingdom. Thanks for the reminder. It's now on the must-view list.

that's too wild for words.

Red Dog, I wasn't sure what to say on yours when you posted them. Love the giant whities! Those are rad! The other bag looks like it might contain MK's though. I'm guessing that "New Vienna, OH" is the address of the toy company who distributed the set. Or maybe specifically the company who made the jacks. Whoever packaged the marbles seems to have bought them from the company who made them. The Vienna of the early Vitros was Vienna, WV. But to complicate matters .... the early packaging didn't say Vienna on it. A place name wasn't always given, but when it was, the name said Parkersburg. even tho the marbles were made in Vienna. Part of what made the Vienna Vitros such a mystery to modern collectors until relatively recently. edit: googling is fun. http://www.wellsmfgco.com/ "American Made Fun Since 1945"

About the age? Is it a Vienna Vitro? Pix to facilitate discussion:

That's some wonderful color! I tried to keep your post at the end of the thread for as long as possible. but I have to break in now with these. I've been looking for a picture of a sulphides box for a long time! From a 2004 Morphy auction: (click to enlarge) 1 1/8"

Made in Japan. Seller gives date as 1931. Mib size is 11/16". The 3rd pic is puzzle solution sheets from the box. (click to enlarge)

Jill, that's some subtle oxblood in your first one. neat. I wouldn't have thought to call the 2nd a "horsehair oxblood". It'd be an out and out oxblood to me. as of now anyway. Maybe others will disagree and correct me.

isn't that cool!

Wow, Taunya's glistening aventurine pic on page 1. I finally saw it. How could I have missed that! I was strolling through the thread to see if there were any guineas yet. Yes! The marble I'm still missing ... missing seeing ... and missing having ... is a serious, out of the box kind of Master Sunburst. If I had to choose between a Sunburst -- an old style Master Marble Sunburst -- and an Akro Sparkler, right now my choice would be a sunburst. Sparklers might cost more, but sometimes I wonder if the original Master Marble Sunbursts are actually more rare than Akro Sparklers. Do I or don't I include the pic of what I mean by a "real" sunburst? Oh sure! Of course I do! I'll be right back! Since it's my wishlist, I'll take a red, white and blue one or a tiger eye. Either will do. lol Maybe there is one already showing in the thread. I see a couple which at least look close but I'm not sure. I guess part of their mystique for me is how hard they seem to be to identify confidently as the older Master Marble kind.

I can answer this part. Akro's oxblood is the real deal. Akro is the one I've seen used as the standard for what is 'real' oxblood. I believe there are marbles from multiple makers with 'real' oxblood though. This includes MFC's and handmades. And now Jabos :-) And sometimes I think it occurs accidentally. Some people don't like to credit the accidental occurences as real oxblood. Others celebrate them. And then with some makers, yes there are oxblood-like colors which are clearly not 'real' but which are sometimes called that maker's version of oxblood.

IMHO yes!

Cool. That's what I was wondering about on a couple of my old marbles. The thread on the marble at the left is not a brick-y tone. Mine were more like that one. I wondered if that was also called horsehair oxblood.

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!