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Here's a different kind of bowl, a "jack". It's from a UK seller. (click to enlarge) Auction description: Here's what Baumann says about jacks: Baumann's estimated value for an F. H. Ayres jack is $150.

Christmas Trees: . . (1) (2) (pelt)

John Deeres: . . (1) (2) (pelt)

Moss Agates, No. 1, 100 count: (source and brief discussion)

Note: LOM in front of a link indicates that the linked page is hosted by LandOfMarbles.com. MM indicates a link at Marble Mental. KC is the Kansas City Marble Collectors Club. Akron is AkronMarbles.com. WWW will direct you elsewhere on the world wide web. Alley Agate Company (1929-1949) See also: the Alley section of Links: Original Packaging. Special discussions and displays: Marbles From The Sistersville Alley Site Alley, Alley, Oxen Free.... Interesting Marble (Very!) One Of These Is Different., Five are from the same company MM: ALLEY AGATE COMPANY - 3rd Article in the Series! LOM: Couldn't resist this one. (a history lesson in post #14 & post #26) Unusual Aventurine? (historical discussion) Marble Id Help, White base w/blue swirl (Ravenswood vs. Alley) Note about Alley sample case in Vitro collection: LOM: Vitro Book Questions Swirls: Alley's!!?? Alley? Baby Blue Ravenswood? Just A Show Take A Peek, " da ole cigar box strikes again " (superman/superboy colors) Wvs Stumper Flames: What Wvs Company Did This?, I gave up my wishful thinking on CAC (most of the pix are gone, but as of the time of this writing there is a great flame in post #11, and post #8 has an explanation of a case of mistaken identity that occasionally arises in connection with the famous Alley sample case) Alley Agate Mailman (very dendritic pattern there) Ca, I Assume? Alley Flames A Question Please. Very Busy Little Marble! Not Sure Who Madeit! Patches: I Am Thinking Vitro, what do you think? WWW: ALLEY PATCHES! (Paula Cole's website) Oxblood? Alley's!!?? Have No Idea As To What This Is, But I believe it has Oxblood on the surface (Horsehair) Oxblood?, Akro?, WVS (if so, which Co.?)? (most of the pix are gone, but there's a nice swirl in post #7) Never Seen One Of These Before, NEED AN I.D. PLEASE (braided! cool!) Aventurine: Id Marble Help Please I Love This One. Unusual Aventurine? Chalkies: Interesting Marble Tater Bugs: Alley Taters Other named Alleys: Ghost Marble Alley's Blue Skies And Blush Lines, Honoring Alley's Blue Lady Peewees: Alley Agate Peewees 3/8 Or Smaller--one Or More Of Each Mosaic Marbles, Pressman Who Made These Patches?, Rosenthal box (whether they are alley or not, there are peewee alley patches which these resemble) Shooters: Alley Or Ravenswood? Drizzle: Interesting Marble Alley Picture Gallery: Mostly Pix - Alley Mostly Pix - Pressman ------------------- Been awhile since I edited this thread. I'm just adding this link down here as a nice example without figuring out which category it should go in. Alley Or C.a.?

Still working on this ... from time to time. Suggestions are welcome. Discussions and illustrations of salient features in marble construction: Pontils: Yellow Single Ground, Faceted Pontil Marble Burn Pontil? Web Page About Japanese Pinch Pontil Marbles akronmarbles: Marble 'Pontil' Variations Please Tell Me More About These, WONDERFUL Old Marbles!! I think they.... (original photos missing, post #3 has some clear photos of faceted pontils) Questions About Marbles With Pontils Seams: An unseamly question....or two.... Red Slags Yellow A True Conundrum, Some CACs are just wrong (what is a seam? How many seams could a CAC have? How did seams get made by machines? and how did other seam-like features get made?) 9 & tail (and cut-off lines?): Are All Mfc Slags Hand-gathered? Ca-9 Slurp A Lot Of Lurv For Nines Cut Lines ??? Turkey head: Time To Eat Flames: Alley Flames A Question Please. Corkscrews other than Akro? Non Akro Cork, lets see yours Drizzle: Interesting Marble Id Please No Clue On This Drizzle "Reverse twist" on Pelts and others: Looking For Some Education, Identifying Marbles Calligraphy: MM: Calligraphy Marbles? Diaperfold: Ca-9 Diaper Fold Or Two-seamed Striped Opaque ??, 11/16" Christensen Agate Road and Tunnel: Would Either Of These Be Considered A "road And Tunnel" Design? Hand-gathering: Marble Furnace Question Here Is Found One.... Couple O Hgs Hand-gathered/handmade, The difference is..? Bullet Mold: Has Anyone Heard Of.... Bulletmold??, anybody know for sure? Claw And Ball, I finally got one Something Different Steelies: Handmade Or Machine-made? Hand "gathered"? (read the patent. try to picture how the press works!) Oxblood Examples & Discussion: Oxblood Examples akro 00 box! German Ox, where was ya Show Us Your Slags With Oxblood! Oxblood Patches And Swirls Oxblood, Why is oxblood so variable from maker to maker? Green Brick?? Odd Shooter Oxblood's Any Clue Akro, German Or Somthing Else? Horsehair oxblood: Alley's!!?? Have No Idea As To What This Is, But I believe it has Oxblood on the surface (Horsehair) Oxblood?, Akro?, WVS (if so, which Co.?)? (most of the pix are gone, but there's a nice swirl in post #7) Horsehair Examples? Lutz: Ebay Plug - Some Nice Ones This Week! (super pix) Aventurine: Yellow Adventurine, On Pelt's of course Red Aventurine, Better look hard at your WVS's Id Marble Help Please (Alley Agate swirls) Pee Wee Blue Green Alley Aventurine Swirl, BLUE GREEN ADVENTURINE SWIRL Sunshine And Aventurine, a good combo Peltier Bumblebee Copper And Chromic Oxide Aventurine, yep green aventurine along side the black aventurine. (Akro Royal) Unusual Aventurine? Mica: Got Mica ?, mmm ... sparkly Egg yolk: For Jay ... What Exactly Is Eggyolk? Metallic: Id Please.. Chocolate Cow Peltier Nlr?, brown/blue/white Metallic Marbles? Swirls, Metallics, Cacs: Id Confirmations Needed 2 Metallic & 1 Pink Peltier (coppery?) There was also one which looked like it had a gold nugget inside ... Vaseline Glass (and other fluorescent marbles): Blast from the past - Bloodies (fun fluorescing mouseover at the linked site) California Sulfides, Anyone have pictures?? (has a link to a Land of Marbles thread discussing fluorescence as a sign of age in sulphides) Bought Uv Blacklight - Pretty Cool ???results??, Added tools to help ID, still not so cut and dry Vaseline Glass? LOM: Porcelfrit that glows (historical note about government requisitioning uranium) Pistachio ... Who Used It? (Ron noted about 70% of Alley pistachio glows) About colors: Vitro Tri-lites Pistachio ... Who Used It? Did Anyone Make Pink Marbles? MFC Red? (the prevailing theory is that MFC didn't make red slags) Akro Black? Anybody's black? About sizes: Sit A Spell And Tell Me More About Peewees What Is The Biggest Marble ... Errors and variations: New Theory On The Origin Of My Purple Vitro Banana Burn Pontil? Non-Akro Corks Bifurcated Pelts Hybrids: Double Ingots: Double Ingot Marbles, 3 dug at the old Akro Agate factory Double Ingot, catseye Triple Ingots: Triple Ingot Marbles Alternating Latticinio's Blue/green?, or other odd one's Are You Ready For Some Footballll??!!!!, let's see some your favorite errors (see post #21) Footballs, buttons and other shapes: Are You Ready For Some Footballll??!!!!, let's see some your favorite errors Same cane handmades: End-of-cane handmades: Slurp A Lot A Lurv For Handmades, I got carried away with the handmades End Of Cane Cloud ?, End of Day Four Panel Onionskin? End-of-run machine-mades: End Of Cane Popeye Same run machine-mades: Bocci End of day? Lobed Shrunken Core......light Green Glass, but is it end of day or cloud? Ceramic Glazes: Creases and Folds: Butt Cracks? Who Do Ya Think..... Buttcracks Please "Anemic" Marbles: Pigtails? Has Anyone Heard Of Pigtails Bubbles: Bubbles In Marbles Mica In A Pelt ?, look at this !!!!!! Debris: Lemme' See All Your "junk" Mibs!! Peltiers (golden debris) Oven Debris, and value Orange Peel, and other surface texture issues: Orange Peel Surface On Peltiers Calling On The Marble Minds!! (Frosted surfaces -- wear, water damage, intentional, ...?) Fried Marbles: How To Fry Marbles Oddities: Only One Of These I've Seen - Thoughts? (painted marble?) Other Discussions About Marble Making: An Ad For A 1&5/8 Mfc Oxblood ?????? (making marbles from cullet)

Very rough draft (The entries which don't have links are ones which used to have links, and I just want a reminder of the things which were discussed. Maybe someone else will start a thread about them.) Nomenclature discussions: Who came up with the names? Original Names Of Marbles, LETS MAKE A LIST OF "FACTORY" NAMED Marble Names Not From The Factory, THE OTHER SIDE!! Question For Pelt Collectors? Jabos Extraordinaire!, Nov. 06 runs (In post #2, there is a link to a Marble Mental thread about the name “Extraordinaire” already being used.) the elusive Kato, (sorry about the fingers!) Blue Angels (named by Smitty?) Pelt Woodies (who named them? I think it was said in an old thread, but the thread is now gone) Akro Claudia & Akro Jolly Roger. These are digger names for experimental blue and orange patches. (source: tba) Found This One In A Pile Of Bricks, WARNING: This post contains extreme eye candy! (blood agate) Slags (aka Onyx): Single Seam Slag Or Striped Transparent ???, 3/4" CA "slag" Vs. "onyx" Slag in the earliest sense? Handmade slag Peltier Miller Machine Marbles: LOM: Pelt Miller Peltier Champion Jr. Marbles: We Are The Champions? Named NLR's versus similarly colored Rainbos: Is It A Bird, Is It A Plane --- Superman, right?? Colorful examples: Orange Slags, photo reference Cloud vs. Clown Counting colors: 4-color Ca Striped Opaque -- Not!, Am I right? (one of my pix is missing; I'll try to fix that) 3 Color Popeye Or Hybrid? Different ways colors are counted for different marbles types? How many colors are needed in a Vitro parrot? Other discussions and debate: Why name marbles? Why not name marbles? A New Pea To The World Never Seen Before, Peltier Mk The meaning of blended in connection with Marble King What constitutes a wirepull? Lemon lime pelt? My Find Labed #13, hope this is a peltier clown Akro Butterscotch brick What could/should be called a transitional, in addition to the famous "Transitionals"? For example, are Pelt "tweeners" transitional?

MAYBE this will be my last Zia post. lol I can't help it. I really like Barbiton Tallucchio's style! This box has an old metal marble shooter in it, one that looks every bit of its age! (which to me makes it all more fun!) Auction description:

Very rough draft Restoration: Pinned discussions from the Restoration Q & A forum: Hand Polishing, Restorers who hand polish / buff Restoration Feedback!!, Whoooo Doooo You LOVE??? (or, not...) Reconditioning, Restorers who use reconditioning machines Alternative Restoration, Less "traditional" restoration methods "cooking", Restorers who "Cook" / Reheat Cleaning: (Please read all warnings before using methods discussed here. Some marbles are more vulnerable than others to caustic materials.) I Dunno, Dirty Marble Several threads now missing mentioned Barkeeper's Friend for cleaning marbles. One mentioned Bon Ami as a less abrasive option than Barkeeper's Friend. Quick fixes: Temporary Fixes When Pondering Restoration, What's good for viewing? Any substances bad for surface? Buffing, light polishing, hand polishing: Hand Polishing Pads,etc One brand of diamond pads mentioned in old posts was Swiflex. More extensive restoration: (for example, filling in missing glass from broken marbles) Polished examples: Before & after pictures: Reconditioning, Restorers who use reconditioning machines A Strange Occurance.... Grime Shine, My First Lou's Member Results To polish or not to polish? Polishing can do strange things to pelts. Reworked marbles & new marbles made from old glass: Cullet marbles An Ad For A 1&5/8 Mfc Oxblood ?????? Thoughts On These Two Mibs?, just for fun... and contemplation... Faked pontils Wissmach glass, glass used to make furnace marbles Other discussions and debate: Grime Shine, My First Lou's Member Results Polish Or No Polish?????? How can you tell when a marble has been polished? 23/32 Amber Base Guinea-cyclone (interesting discussion about possible signs that a CAC guinea has been repaired – I personally am not suggesting that the guinea in question was repaired, merely that the discussion is interesting.) I Got To Wondering After The Speculation (follow-up discussion) Showin' Off, 3/c GP Brick Bubbles In Marbles Somewhere there is a page with a sphere grinding machine and instructions; one of the old threads had a link to it.

Note: LOM in front of a link indicates that the linked page is hosted by LandOfMarbles.com. MM indicates a link at Marble Mental. KC is the Kansas City Marble Collectors Club. Akron is AkronMarbles.com. WWW will direct you elsewhere on the world wide web. M.F. Christensen & Son Company (1903-1917) See also: the MFC section of Links: Original Packaging. Various examples and discussions: Fresh From The Wild (Post #4 has a photo of the sleeve of photos in the back of Cohill's M.F. Christensen and The Perfect Glass Ball Machine) WWW: Martin F. Christensen (Christensen's entry at Ohio History Central) Slags (aka Onyx): Yellow Are All Mfc Slags Hand-gathered? Slag Alert!!!! Mf Christensen? (biggie) Largest sizes? Bricks: I want to know more about Bricks. please.. Its Not In The Books (clear brick?) Moss Agates: American Cornelians: AKRO PEACH BRICK (see dug cornelians on the 5th page, in Post #90) Mostly Pix - M. F. Christensen & Son Persian Turquoise: Oxblood: Opaque: Cullet:

Very rough draft. Early Marble Companies The Barberton Glass Novelty & Specialty Company (1906-1908) All 3 threads I had here are gone now. They were about horizontal slags, aventurine, and "Barberton green". There was also a link to historical information. That was probably at Akronmarbles.com, so hopefully I can restore that link. The Navarre Glass Marble and Specialty Company (1897-1901) What Is It? Got My Fingers Crossed... I Know Its A Golden Rebel, But What Are The Others? Grey slag Again, one of the missing threads had a historical link in it, which I'll try to find. The American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Co. (1891-1904) Flea Mkt Finds American Toy Jugs Akron: The American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Co. The Standard Toy Marble Company (1893 - 1922) Akron: The Standard Toy Marble Company " Boys' Marbles Made By Girls " Albright Mostly Pix - Albright " Boys' Marbles Made By Girls " The California Agate Company California Agates -- Marble Mystery California Agates -- Incredible "find"

Hercules: . . (1) (2) And here is a rare opaque hercules from the 1950's, complements of Bluerbird: Hercules Theme Music . . (3) The lyrics so you can sing along : Hercules, hero of song and story. Hercules, winner of ancient glory. Fighting for the right, fighting with his might, With the strength of ten, ordinary men. Hercules, people are safe when near him. Hercules, only the evil fear him. Softness in his eyes, iron in his thighs, Virtue in his heart, fire in every part, Of the Mighty Hercules. . . (4) (all MK)

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)