Steph

Oct. 2010: Thinking about starting this one over. Slags: Would Love To See Pictuures Of Slag Marbles, studying marbles '101' Leaving the old links for now: Some early machine mades: (see also slags, bricks and swirls by maker in the Company pages) Various examples and discussions: Clueless About Slags (includes a discussion of slags vs. transparent swirls) Green Brick?? Yellow Slags: Slags.................!!!, All of 'Dem..........!!! Three To Id (Peach slag(s) in Post #5.) Red Slags (skads of 'em) Ca-9 Really Bad Picture, But, What Are They?? (comparison to German marbles) Single Seam Slag Or Striped Transparent ???, 3/4" CA cool slag... Hand-Gathered Red Slag, opinions on manufacturer please Pretty Purple Slags! Wild Green Slag I am looking for......:-) Anyone got any? PLEEEASE Dear Penthouse; I picked up this little hottie the other Here is for Liz (LOL!!!) slags of a color, 2 color slags Peach Slag ??? (Post #10 has a huge assortment in one photo for color comparisons) juicy sweet 1" blue slag SOME OF MY SLAGS Evil Eye 9 CAC Slag? (unusual green shade, and tan) Onyx Marbles (Slags) Beautiful Green Slags Question Beer Slags Wanted: Dead But Preferably Alive Hand-Gathered Red Slag, opinions on manufacturer please Id please.. CAC Slag? Happy St.Patrick's Day S'more Slags........!!!, The Orange and Pinkish are W.V.'s Slag Chaos, heres why ID'ing is tough! (discussion about makers of vaseline glass slags) My Slags To The 9's Opinions & Info Wanted, Akro, Christensen, Peltier??? Light Lavender Mfc Slag Show Us Your Slags With Oxblood! Bricks: AKRO PEACH BRICK (the photo which started the thread appears to have been replaced with another; however, there is another photo on the 3rd page) I want to know more about Bricks. please.. Questions on 2 Beat up Bricks? White Brick Is this a brick Found This One In A Pile Of Bricks, WARNING: This post contains extreme eye candy! (Am I seeing that blood agate is a recently coined name for a special variety of MFC brick?) badger bricks:-) eyes to the brick pavement:-) Some New Pavers Cool Brick, Onion with avent., PLUS an oddball I found on my lab bench ??? Brick ??? ??? Whats This ??? # 1 (green brick aka moss agate) A Brick Is A Brick Is A Brick Swirls: swirls swirls and more swirls A few more marbles (briefly addresses the usage of the catch-all phrase "West Virginia swirl") Marbles See Better When They Have Eyes German Corkscrew, (well, sort of) Hot Euro Flame Wirepulls (not sure if these are all vintage): wirepull Ebay plug...ends soon(not mine but not bidding), flamey slag, limeade...etc (pix in post #9, preceding conversation is cute) Does anyone have pics of a "wire Pull" marble?? (some of the images are vintage wirepulls, and some are modern Vacor) All That Glitters Is Not Gold...., ...Or Aventurine Or Lutz.... Transitionals: Note: Some so-called "transitionals" are actually handmades, as noted in the first link below: How Do I Tell The Difference? Transitionals The following links have not been double-checked for content or even to see if they are still there. Neither have the links in the other categories above. I'm just starting to think about revamping this page. I've been inspired by the simple yet informational transitional thread link I just posted. I've learned a lot since I first made these links. More threads have been posted. And to some extent what is considered "common knowledge" has changed. Any thread recommendations will be welcome. Thanks. Color-base Variation Web Page About Japanese Pinch Pontil Marbles Anxiously Awaiting Red Transitionals Single Ground, Faceted Pontil Marble Ebay Plug - Ending Sunday April 29th, Transitionals, Handmades & more! (half green, half amber) Please Check Your Orange/purple Corkscrews Red And White Transitionals

Watermelons: (MK)

Dragonflies: (MK)

Cub Scouts: (the Marble King is from Alan's old site, the Peltier is from PeltierMarbles.com)

Girl Scouts: (the marble is from Alan's old site) (MK)

Ketchup and Mustard: (pelt)

Indian blankets: Some only consider the black/red/yellow version an Indian Blanket. And some only consider the ones with the yellow in the middle of the red to be Indian Blankets. [Edit: did I mean red in the middle of the yellow? ... Can't remember what is correcct. I wrote this too long ago. ] Here is a pair of Patry's. Some would only consider the larger to be an Indian Blanket. source and discussion: Marblelairium: known as, Indian blankets , no? (akro)

Julie Boyles' "Standing Out From The Crowd" Davis Marbles. Julie introduces her work here: Marble Paintings Here is her site: Julie Boyles Fine Art

I'm guessing they have. This 1981 Imperial bag says made in Mexico.

Lifesavers: (akro)

Green Hornets ... and Katos: (The first Green Hornet is from Alan's old site. The next is is from a Bob Block auction. The Kato is Ron Shaw's.) For more about the Kato: the elusive Kato, (sorry about the fingers!) (all MK)

Spidermen: (from the USPS, one of Alan's recent auctions, and Alan's old site, resp.) (pelt and MK)

Supermen: (pelt and akro)

I hadn't heard of the Indian connection before you mentioned it yesterday in the other thread.

Updated answer: Very likely to be modern ... but some of the smoothest "MM-mimics" are vintage. See Charles' Irene Mfg. Co. box here, Made In England?

Space for other stuff.

(click pix to enlarge) Red Goose Shoes promo carton with corks: From the auction description: I wonder if that thin line of brown is special somehow. Or were those just red corks and anything else was incidental? Here is another batch of red corks with maybe a little brown. Nice red. Apparently not what today's collectors call Imperials though. Did Akro call them Imperials? And if so, did Akro call the ones in the Red Goose box Imperials too? [Edit: to me now, years later, the base on those in the Red Goose box looks like Moss Agates and looks like it could be different from the base of the ones in the Imperial box below.] . . (1, 2) To put the question another way, if we opened one of the cartons in the following clip from one of Dani's Akro ads, what would the Imperial have looked like? Sort of an ordinary (to us) red cork, or something more fancy? . . (3) I checked the contents pictured for the No. 32 boxes shown in Post #3 above. There are no Cardinal Reds there so they weren't following the recipe given in this circular. So, I won't try to draw any conclusions about from that about the red corks would have been called. (By the way, the boxes in Post #3 are decorated slightly differently from the box in the ad.) edit: Craig/Spara50 has added another box of Imperial corkscrews to the body of examples, Some Recent Stuff, Akro Imperial Box, Red Angels & more.

This Codeg Gloria Marble Mosaic box has foil marbles from Germany. It says "Made in England, Marbles Foreign".

Yeah, what Al said. lol. (I even reloaded the page to see if someone else had made a post while I was drafting mine, but yours didn't show up, Al.) It would make sense that manufacturers in British territories would want to be allowed to claim the advantages of being part of the Empire. And one of those would be the right to say their wares were authentically British.

Most of the marbles we buy in the U.S. with that general style are made in China. We call them Imperial marbles because the Imperial Toy Company is their most famous distributor here. Imperial was founded in 1969, after Irene and Codeg sold their marbles. Perhaps Irene and Codeg licensed machines in Hong Kong, and then after the British companies left the operation, Imperial picked up the license? But would the marble factory being located in a British Crown Colony and run by a British company be enough to allow Codeg to say "British Made"? (When their marbles came from Germany or Japan, they said "Foreign".) Or did the marbles actually have to be made in England to earn that label? That's the question of the day. Could it be that the marbles actually were made in England? Maybe the machines were first operated in England, and then relocated to Hong Kong to take advantage of cheaper labor? Maybe I'll write House of Marbles and ask them.

Tony, what is your understanding of the term "British made"? Could it ever have included things made in any British territory around the world, not just in Great Britain proper? Steph

Oh wow. Nice, smooth, vintage, but sure as shootin' that's what we've been calling Imperial!

Charles, that box is a beaut! The glimpse we get of the marbles looks like they could be an older (much nicer) version of the ones in the Codeg box. Somewhere on a Master to Imperial continuum, with the Irene closer to Master and the Codeg closer to Imperial. I wonder if Scott was onto something with his British Ancestry thing. Or some other loophole. For example, if they were made in British colonies by companies with British corporate offices could they legally have been called British-made? (even if the workers were, say, Hong Kong natives?)

Dug at Lauscha!, by eBay seller cocona36 (click pix to enlarge) Cane, drops and other glass: Marbles: Doll eyes: Human prosthetic eyes, plus a piece which looks like it might have been the start of an eye:

No new marble pix to add yet. But here's a pair of Fortune Telling Balls. As noted in Alan's auction description below, the amber is original to the box. Auction description: By the way, for actual Czech marbles you can find some links here, Original Packaging and Marbles From Outside The U. S..