Steph

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..

(click pix to enlarge) Vitro Shooters Mesh bag: Closeups: The seller said about an inch. When asked for particulars he said, "I Measured a couple loose ones with my calipers and one was .985 inches and the other .995 inches so I would say they are 1 inch marbles." The seller is baam!!, with 2 exclamation points. I can't leave a link to his ebay sales page. The exclamation points are messing up the html code for some reason. Are these shooters? Poly bags: (source for bag on left)

Peewees: (click to enlarge) Block's auction description: P.s., most of the marbles in the Mosaic box here are peewees too.