Steph

Here's a picture Chuck showed me at LOM to illustrate what he described as a "bow-tie" effect at the seam. He said it was a common characteristic of whities. I was never quite sure why it was called a bow-tie. Was it was how it was cinched neatly at the seam, or how the ribbon sort of seems to fold back on itself. or maybe just something about the overall shape of it? I don't know, but I do see the ribbon on Chuck's slightly doubling back. And I think I may see a hint of the same thing on the portion of the seam showing in your first picture. Do you see it in hand?

Post #4 here has a picture Chris posted of whities, Nice Vitro Shooter Or Is It?, packed with aventurine.

Here's the most recent thing I know of on Kokomos at this board, Aruba, Jamaica, Girl I Wanna Take Ya.... Bob's original pictures have been replaced with others ('coz that's just what happens with his server) but there is still a lot of discussion plus some scans of text about Kokomos. I should know where the old board is. LOL (I posted there once, just to see if I could. ) Maybe I can find it. p.s., as BJ notes in that Aruba thread, WVMCC has a Kokomo marbles page at their site, http://www.westvirginiamarblecollectorsclub.com.

Some Japanese "Pinchers", from a Bob Block auction. A couple of these are multi-colored, which apparently isn't all that common. (click to enlarge) These are similar to what are often called Wales marbles. Here's a thread where I gathered together some "Wales" pix: Wales Mibs For Mike

Sorry, I can't.

Those patches, Jane, that's what I'm confusing with maybe-dug Akros ... and Marble King on the little brownish one? and maybe wales on the blue and white ... maybe not ... but I wouldn't have been sure ... I'm a little glad that one bag had a hole in it ... even though I'm sure you'd druther it hadn't. :-) You just don't see that kind of MG close-up, not next to its original packaging. :-) I see what you mean by the potato chippy look in the bananas. That I can recognize as master-y, from when the LOM-ers showed me a parade of tiger eyes ... a really long parade ... coz I couldn't figure out what was meant when people talked about a single ribbon of colors inside. Until I finally saw the pringles chip in one! lol

Just for fun I tried to find a picture of some old yellow vaseline. I couldn't. (probably a good thing ) But I did see examples of early jars. One of the earliest said Chesebrough Vaseline from back when it was "patent medicine". Some later but still vintage jars said "White Petroleum Jelly". (So do my vintage non-Vaseline-brand jars.) I guess I "should" have realized before that they didn't use the word "white" simply to add to the number of words on the label. lol. But I never did get that and still wouldn't have if Jane hadn't explained about the formula change. Learn something new ....

Yea, and I got the pic to work in the master thread too. Triumphing over the mosheen!

Sue, I'm posting a link to the same auction, just to see if I can get it to work. That'll make me feel better after my image fouling up over in the Master thread. Petura Jellyfish Did it work?

Al, I've also noticed that attachments don't always stay in the order I've uploaded them. There is an easy way to make them show up basically where you want them though. If you go to Manage Current Attachments you get a dropdown menu and can choose pretty much exactly where they show up. Sometimes you might try to get them all to show up in a single line and they might stubbornly split off into two lines, but you can still put them in order and place them between explanatory lines of text and good stuff like that.

Thanks Alan! (and Sue )

ah. thanks.

Awesome cullet and great pix, Alan! That sure is fantastic glow even without the blacklight. Just amazing. Are you saying you consider lemonade glass to be vaseline glass but limeade glass not? Is the limeade cullet "uranium glass"? Or simply "flourescent" and don't worry about any other name. (Felicia, you at least have a Limeade, which is special all by itself. Now I'm not sure if it would be considered "vaseline glass". I'm waiting to hear what Alan says about that.)

I can't see Jane's pictures. Am I the only one? Is my Vista computer being overprotective again?

Thanks for clearing that up for me Jane and Alan. :-) (Felicia, different kinds of glass can glow, but it sounds to me like yours is probably vaseline glass. The base is what glowed, right? Sounds like you might have a limeade. Do the colors look like these?)

Oh brother, this really is a silly question. I'd take it back if I could. But I can't. So I'll try to find it out for myself, like I should have done in the first place. By the way, the Vaseline Glass Collectors, Inc. website has a nice short history of vaseline glass production, and a link to a vaseline glass bibliography. I still don't know why it's called that, but I'll figure it out. P.s., it also has a link to a UV Blacklight Fun Page which has pretty pictures of vaseline glass, with permission to use the pix for "non-commercial use and reference".

I have another puzzler. I should probably ask it at Marble Mental so Ron Shaw would have a whack at it. But I've already started typing now so .... Why is vaseline glass called vaseline glass? I have two vintage petroleum jelly jars but they don't fluoresce. If I actually had Vaseline brand jars, would they? Hey wait, I haven't checked to see if Vaseline glows! Well ... my generic brand mentholated petroleum jelly only has a blue-ish glow, so that doesn't explain the name ...

I'd like that. Is that a way to tell Master bananas apart from Peltier bananas? Growl at John for being better on his first shots than I ever hope to get. You made those creatures look as if they might crawl off the page.

Thanks fellas. :-)

I meant "share pictures of", of course.

Thanks Al. :-)

Check out the side of this box, where it says "Assorted Master Meteor Marbles". (ebay photos, of course, an auction which has run more than once since its reserve price wasn't met) The word "Meteor" is raised about the level of the rest. Would you say that means the "Assorted Master ______ Marbles" portion was a more permanent part of the press and the style name was interchangeable? And then the word "Clearies" is stencilled on top. The stencilling seems to me as if it would have been done in a completely different time. To me it seems that the stencils would have been made specially, and they would have been made by someone who had given up on having pretty preprinted boxes for each style of mib, and was moving toward a more flexible, as-needed system of labelling. (And being practical, they were using their old preprinted boxes wherever needed, rather than throwing them away.) Does anyone agree with that theory? (And does anyone have any dates on that box style?) Is this sort of question neat or dumb? I honestly don't know what anyone else will think about it ... but obviously I think it's sorta neat.

Maybe I should call this thread "Master Glass vs. anything else". My mindset right now is something along the lines of if it looks vintage and I can't place it, maybe it's an Akro. possibly dug. That's why I was inclined to see Akro for the vintage marbles in Jane's shooter sorting thread. Since Master Glass patches don't get the same airtime as their older MM relatives, I think that's making me more likely to confuse them with Akros and not see their relation to the older MM's. Hearing about the differences is one thing. Having visuals would help a lot. Does anyone have any Master Glass examples they'd be willing/able to share?

Sounds like you have some of one of the more rare varieties of cross-throughs. One color crossing through, but that color not being white. So, that is a good thing. As to the ) mark? That is probably what I'd call a "crimp" or a "shear mark". It simply happens sometimes on the ends of marbles. It's not a good thing or a bad thing. imho. And having the same or similar crimp marks wouldn't mean much either ... except if I had 5 uncommon marbles like that which I acquired at the same time, with the same colors and the same markings, I'd feel pretty safe saying they were "same run" marbles. (Made on the same machine on the same day.) And that is sort of special. So I'd keep them together with a note about them being "same run", for the future reference of whatever archaelogist eventually excavates my marbles on some far off date. ;-)

Six vane, Japanese Cat's Eyes, definitely not bottle green base. These I like! . . (1, 2) In case you opened this thread hoping to see some of the famous Wales brushed patches, here's a link to some already on the board, Id Please...