Steph

Big Value Boxes. "Approximately 100 Marbles" The first set came from Norm Brown's collection, auctioned at Bonham's. (click to enlarge) I don't know the source of this box, other than that it came from an eBay auction. Maybe more later. I don't know how many more I have on my harddrive. I think it's interesting how the font varied on these boxes, but I guess it's not interesting enough to post picture after picture of the slight variations. lol

thanks!

I frequently want to know what the biggest marble from any maker is. Often I vaguely remember reading some reference to the size. But that's a hard thing to search for in search engines! I've just received confirmation at LOM about the biggest Champions floating around. The intentionally large ones. Not the double ingots etc. So for Champs it appears to be 13/16". Brad/slagmarble gave upper estimates on MFC slags, broken down by color here. The largest were brown or green at 1 7/8". Mibster at Akronmarbles has said that MFC made a 3" marble. A glassie, he said. I've heard some size info about Ravenswoods. But I can't remember if I've seen any specifics. What I remember is that usually the discussion seems to move into whether the 1" marbles in Ravenswood packaging were made by them or by Akro. ... ah yes, like here. later note: At Marble Mental, David Chamberlain shows a 7/8" swirl and says that Mike Johnson owns a 15/16" version of the same. even later note: Ron says the 7/8"+ would not have been made for regular production sale. (source) For Jabo, the biggest ones they made on purpose were 1". Ron said, "1 1/4 up are always in the reject bin,usually rough or out of round." For Master, 1" seems to be the top measurement, though Roger/Sword44 hasn't given up hope for more. later note: Ron mentioned here that Jacksons weren't as large as 13/16" in regular production. Perhaps I'll ask him another time what the max size was on those. next update: AMMM says Heaton made marbles up to about 1", then later gave the figure more specifically as 15/16". Pics show some large-ish swirls. See the discussion here: Pretty Aqua. Anyone else have any good size info up your sleeve? CAC? Alley? Akro? Peltier? Marble King? Handmade? Others?

It can shed its needles on my livingroom carpet anytime!

that tree is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo willllllllllllllllllllllddddddddddddddddddddddddd

I was waiting for you to post yours Sue before I finally jumped in to ask if anyone had any idea who made the peewees in Joe's. My guess is that they are Akro Royals but before Joe's, and now yours, the only marbles I'd seen in the necklaces were pelts. well, I'm also only guessing that yours aren't pelts!

Sweet! I don't remember ever seeing one like the red. (And Rick is right about the topic!)

Sue, I hope you won't be too disappointed to have to make the bag for Cal and Sheryl instead.

Here's a pic of the track we raced on. Like Carole said, a die was rolled to see how many spots we advanced each turn.

Do you suppose CAC made clays? Or did they have some sort of affilliation with another company? The reason I'm especially curious about what clay companies they might have had a connection with is because I still wonder about these Albright packages. If they had some sort of business relationship to put Albright clays in CAC/Gropper packaging, maybe the flow of marbles went both ways and that might explain the glass marbles in Albright packaging. I know there were other swirl companies in existence at the time of that ad who theoretically might have helped fill the bags. I mostly want them to be CACs and if they did have a business relationship through Gropper, maybe that increases the odds they really were CAC's. (lol)

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Here's an Anacortes bag Galen posted at LOM once. Here's the thread where it was. (I think the attachments were removed to save space.) (click to enlarge)

What do you think when you see clays and Christensens together in a Favorite Marble Assortment box? The first time I saw it, I thought there must have been backfilling. Now I've seen it at least three times. This box was on the bay. These were on the bay in another favorites box. And this is from Norm Brown's collection auctioned at Bonham's. You think Gropper used the clays as filler sometimes? maybe clay actually even qualified as a "favorite" back in the day, providing inexpensive variety to the "assortment"?

Dazzlers. One says made in Germany, the other made in Japan. Al posted the pic from Germany, Winnie the pic from Japan. (click to enlarge)

Dazzlers. One says made in Germany, the other made in Japan. Al posted the pic from Germany, Winnie the pic from Japan. (click to enlarge)

I started to salivate just a bit when I saw the ripcurl ... and others I'm not even going to start naming ... but when I saw the flower sitting in the stem, I knew that's the one I wanted to be able to show my friends. You know, the sweet friends who say, "oh, that's nice", and you aren't sure if they're seeing something in the marble, or if they're humoring you (the dear ones have to humor me a lot ;-). If all else fails, when they look at that one, they'll be thinking these marble makers are pretty clever people. The way I do!

... with Leaf Stand. This was my prize in the Great Race recently held at Glass Addiction. I am so pumped! Mike very nicely said I could use his pix. I can't figure out which one or two to show, so here are all of them the way he arranged them! A silver and gold fumed flower with a leaf stand. Marble is 1 1/2 diameter.... side view Back view Looking down on the stand.... Here's Mike's email, in case you'd like one of your very own! [email protected] His handle on the boards is pacosaki, which some of you will already know.

Brilliant Marbles, assortments: (click to enlarge) (source)

Glassmarbles, Twisted: (click to enlarge) (source)

Amber marbles. Could these be the "Brandies" mentioned here, Klondike And Brandy? (edit: I guess not! -- thanks to the extra info about what Brandies would be) (click to enlarge) (source)

Hi Scott. I appreciate Sandra Mackintosh of East Market Street Antiques in Red Hook, NY for putting them on the web so that the world can see them.

Box of 120 chinas: (click to enlarge) (source) I've recently learned that the "Made in Germany" statement indicates these were made in 1921 or later.

I'm seeing some small structural differences between yours and mine, but my sample is very small. And I think I'm seeing some familiar debris under yours. So I'm definitely leaning Vacor. Let's see what others have to say. P.s., even if they are vacor, treat these nice. I think they might be "hard to find".

Do you think they could be modern? If so, then they may be Vacor Sunsets. (Which imho are totally awesome marbles.) My sunsets tend toward the reddish side of orange but I've seen pix of some which were almost white. Your mibs seem basically in the correct color range. (the biggest one here is a whopping 1 5/16")

Assorted Glassies: (click to enlarge) (source)