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Quick note, found a litte more info: Chris said here, Iding Acme Realers From Pictures, that Gino Biffany "originally - and mistakenly - believed that Acme Realers were opalescent baseballs. he later found out that they are actually opalescent peerless patches." Does that explain why so many people, including Block and Marble Alan, thought realers were rainbos? And what about that partial box of rainbos? I think it would be interesting to know why Biffany first believed they were rainbos. Is there any chance it is because rainbos were also sold under the realer name? Well, I don't expect an answer about the possible cross-over nature of the realers, not right away. I'm ready to put it on the back burner. About any other rainbo types ... Dave, did you happen to find anything out about any other rainbo marketing names? (I know you're busy. No rush. Just asking while I'm thinking about it. :-)

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A toy called Cury, "Die kugel im Ring". It's "das neue Gefchicklichkeitsfpiel!" (click to enlarge) From an eBay auction awhile back. I didn't get the name of the seller.

Jaspers (aka Lined Crockery): (click to enlarge) From eBay auction.

A master stock box with 4 dozen small boxes in it. 30 peewee clay marbles per box. (click to enlarge) From the auction description:

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Thanks Kevin for the Glass Kitchen lead. But ... at the risk of hijacking my own thread ... LOL @ the Gen. Westmoreland marble! Why Gen. Westmoreland?!!!! No, that's a rhetorical question. But ... why?! ROFL!

Interesting Bo. Thank you.

Now, about Grandpa there ... I don't think he's just any old man. If I read Akronmarbles.com correctly, that's supposed to be Sam Dyke on his knee in the dirt.

If the Curtis site is correct, there was a real April 1 issue. So, they couldn't use that any more than they could use the Sept. 2? I dunno. Well, the year is right and it's a conversation piece. :-)

What is made in a furnace? As far as I knew until Kevin and then Sue said some people look down on torchwork, torchwork was where it was at. Now I hear some people think it isn't. What do those people make?

ROFL. That's hilarious, Sue. Is the date April 1? There was another Country Gentleman cover with marble players. March 1923, Grandpa Goes Knuckles Down.

Definitely something special going on with that glass. Is there any hint at all of bleeding/blending?

Check this out: the cover of Country Gentleman, March 1937. At Curtis Publishing, CG 1930's. If I understand correctly, Curtis Publishing was also responsible for the Saturday Evening Post. They show a small pic of the Sept. 2, 1939 Norman Rockwell Marbles Champion cover. You can get to that from this page, SEP 1930's.

Sounds like a delicious drink. It looks like the camera picked up the fluorescence of whatever was behind the marble.

Thank you Lou.

That's the other box I've seen. The one which, together with statements I've heard from at least four sources about realers being rainbos, makes me wonder if realer was a cross-over name, introduced for certain cloudy-based patches during the time of the NLR and then used for other marbles during the rainbo era. At least until they ran out of pre-printed Acme Realer boxes.

Thank you Brian. Rick I don't mind a good lightbulb joke. or a bad one. Is torchwork the same thing as lampwork?

I begin to think lampwork is not the same thing as "making lamps".

Found the realers box with the rainbos in it. It's a partial box. I don't know who first posted it, or where, or what was said about it. Like whether it was an original stock remnant or was more likely to be backfilled or what.

Haven't yet found the realers box with the rainbos in it. Did remember this one tho'. The "Specials" box with what looks like mostly rainbos, and some peerless patches. Interesting in more ways than one. For some reason I thought of peerless patches as coming from a different time period than rainbos. This says there was at least some overlap, unless old stock found its way into the box. Also, I wasn't sure I'd find rainbos in these flat old-looking stock boxes, but here they are.

Yes, Dave, LOL. This go round I'm asking about marketing names. :-) Carole, funny you should mention Acme Realers. I've been wondering if that might be one of the tweener marble names. And if maybe the packaging was used for two different kinds of marbles. First patches and then rainbos like you say. In this 1933 ad, I think the Acme "Real" marbles were patches. Yet Block called Realers rainbos, and so does the info and history page at Peltiermarbles.com: Edit: Marble Alan also said Realers were rainbos, but a different type: "Rainbos with a translucent colored base are called Acme Realers." I know I've seen a pic of a Realers box with patches. But I'm pretty sure I've also seen one with Rainbos. Maybe later in the 1930's or in the 1940's Peltier said something like, "We have the boxes and we like the name so why should we mark it out? Just decide which of our new style Rainbos matches the old name best and they'll be our new Realers." I'll see if I can find that Realers box with the Rainbos in it.

Are there any Pelt Rainbo names, official ones, other than the Rainbos and the Bloodies?

So, may I conclude that everyone is saying yes on those being marbles!