Steph

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)

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!