Steph

We know that some Akro patches were corkscrews which didn't cork. Made when the spinner cup wasn't spinning. For example, this popeye patch, pictured along with its sibling. (They were found in the same popeye box.) So, here's my question. Was the corkscrew machine also a patch machine on purpose? And the spinner cup was just held still when the patches were being made? Or were the patches which came out of the corkscrew machine(s) more along the lines of accidents. And did Akro have specialized patch machines? For example, were moss agates made on special patch machines? Or on corkscrew machines with the spinner cup held still.

wow ... politics and intrigue ... and potentially global economic ramifications and they're just toys ... rejected toys at that.

aw shucks. That's so sweet.

Oh ... not for me, hmmm ... just because I could picture myself as a 10-year-old knuckling down with your ruby bee in 1940? I wouldn't really, you know that Carole! Those are some mighty fine pelts! p.s., I am slowly putting together two sets of marbles I wouldn't mind bashing up so that my husband and I can learn to play. He says he's game if I can find some I won't squeal about whenever they hit each other!

Wow, that's a marble! That would look great spinning across the dirt, whomping up on the other mibs in the ring. (j/k ... except that it would! )

Here are my sunsets. The top one is 1 5/16". The one on the right is 31/32+. They did have at least one other color option (white and yellow). Beyond that I don't know.

Hi Wayne. Nice to see you. :-) I wish I had a Dalmation too. Any size. That's a cool looking marble for something so simple in color. Yes, I think the Owl is the same as the Wicked Owl. Maybe slight glass formula changes as with so many Megas, but still the same essential style. imho. :-) Here's the 2006 version from KC Marble Club's catalog pages. My contact for Mega marbles has been Albert at LOM. I recently got a whole lot of Megas/Vacors from him, including a 1" Sunset. Very nice. (Albert, just in case you ever read this board and see this post, know that I'll be sending you something in the mail soon. Including my email address so we can get back in touch. I haven't forgotten about you!) Steph

and still in the "silly" vein, here's Blendtec presents: .

I'm the someone else. LOL Sue, I was looking at Carole's pix here, Show Your Atmospheres, as an example of something which "worked" with her particular camera, in her particular lighting setup. I want her to be able to show off mibs like her "interesting little pelt" to their best advantage. So, that's why she used the darker cloth, and it happened to be purple. Carole, it sounds to me like Sue agrees that the pix are getting good! And dark seems to be the right idea. AND purple worked well here, but if you take a picture of your new cubscout shooter, dark gray will probably go better with the colors than purple. For example. Do I have this right, guys?!

sweet

Jane, that's pretty neat effect and tough to capture. I'll be looking for it in my bananas from now on. Elizabeth, ....... (I don't know what to say. I've loved that picture for a long time. Thanks for sharing it here!) That red and yellow striped one looks .... different ....

I agree that looks like a Kokomo, Jay. imho! Here's a bag of Kokomos Craig posted a couple of years ago. Can see why they could get mixed in with whities.

Yeah, it's great! But so is yours! Wish they were both mine!

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.