Steph

Most or all from recent eBay auctions (click to enlarge pix) Marvellous Value, the "No Better" Box of Marbles: Brilliant Marbles, Wonderful Value: More lutz. Older than the box before? Crocheted bags: Pink: Deutsches Roulette. Look at how the marbles' core resembles the flag on the box top. That is not an accident. "Schwarz , Weiss, Rot" means "Black, White, Red".

From German marble sites A few items from murmelwelt.de. Several more at the site. (click to enlarge) A pair of mesh bags from among the many things to be viewed at maerbelmuehle.de, the website of the Thuringen Marble Museum. Colorful earthenware and wirepulls. I'm curious about the age on the earthenware and the mesh bag.

I may come back and edit this to make it sound more "official"! But I want to say now, if you have any eggheady stuff you'd like to add in here, feel free. Any projects you'd like to tinker on as you feel inspired. Pictures from your marble digs. Example pix in any germane category! Pontil studies. Slag color studies! "Lessons" about your favorite marbles. Unusual marble references you think worthy of note, and worthy of not ending up on the back pages as fast as they would in chat. Your own lists of useful links! (My W.I.P. will thank you, because it is still debating what to include.) Or ... ? I'm sure there won't be a stampede to post! But you're welcome anytime. Steph p.s. If you want to follow-up on any existing topics, it's okay to bump threads in general. Or start a new one, whichever you prefer. But if someone is working on a technical thread and you aren't sure whether it's open for discussion, play it safe. Start your own thread for the follow-up or check with the author to see if it's okay to add to theirs. p.p.s. It's always okay to bump my threads. Good for their circulation. ;-)

It sounds like marbles sellers were fairly careful with their labelling by 1933. In that year you could buy Glass Onyx Marbles, Glass Agates and Imitation Carnelians. And of course Imitation Agates, but Bennies were already being called that in the 1870's. Some Onyx Marbles For Sale, "CHEAP!!"

Akro, MFC and Peltier all called their slags onyx. This is my book report on the subject. I never learned whether CAC called their slags anything other than Toy Marbles as seen in Post #8 here, One Killer Box Of Really Big C.a. Slags:-). MFC had already been out of business 13 years in 1930 but even after Akro stopped making slags it still used the name Onyx for one of its cork lines. Edited: The name "onyx" was so widely known for toy marbles that at least four companies used it over the course of about two decades before the FTC complaint. That seems like a long time to wait before complaining. And it hardly seems likely that after all those years of playing with and breaking glass marbles, the public would think those particular onyxes were rocks. That's really weird, Roger. Still cool to know. But really weird.

From the Gropper Onyx Marble Corp., Ebay Item #120063544502, Gropper Onyx Marble Game NY Litho Rufus Rastus Darktown, listed in the category of Black Americana. The game, the rules, the box, the marbles currently with the box: From the auction description:

Top Assortment, High Grade, from the Gropper Onyx Marble Co., ca. 1933. They are fun to play with. Wind it up and let it rip. So easy a child can do it. :-)

Do you know how the case turned out?

That is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!

From Akronmarbles.com's Glossary of Marble Terminology: Which company would have made these? Opal Agates: .

wondrous

Thanks! Cool info. Thanks! I don't know who had that nice box. I tried to retrace my steps to see where I might have found the photo but no luck.

Mostly auction pix. Sources given when known. Click pix to enlarge Big Shot Agate Marbles box: Bull's Eye Marbles bag, from a Poplarhead auction, in which Don identified the marbles as Alleys: From Don's auction listing: Bull's Eye Marbles box, containing 7/16" to 1/2" marbles: Mesh bags. Bull's Eye and Big Shot from Marblealan auctions: Note: There are other pix in the links here, Compilation: Original Packaging. And another bull's eye bag here. Bullseye Mesh Bag W/ Coral Marbles & Mk Mesh Bags

Two threads from 2020: Named Heaton types Dug Heaton mib pics Big Shot mesh bags. The first is from a Marblealan auction. Two more: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/th_002a.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/th_003.jpg Plastic Big Shot bags: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/th_IMG_0009.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/th_IMG_0008.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/th_BigShot010a.jpg Dug marbles, from Rinesmarbles auctions: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/Rines001a.jpghttp://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/Rines001b.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/Rines002a.jpghttp://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/Rines002b.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/Rines03a.jpghttp://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Heaton/Rines03b.jpg

From the auction description: .

Cardinal Red corkscrews, shown in a thread at LOM. Thread is no longer available. (click to enlarge) Post #11 here shows an ad for a box like that, plus a Fire Opal box and 4 Display Cartons (No. 32, No. 64, No. A-16, and No. A-112). Underneath the illustrations of the display cartons is the recipe used for filling them! For example, the No. 64 contains

(click links below thumbnails to enlarge) Akro Moonies: (I think from a Rabbit Auction) http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/post-279-1187051523.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/post-279-1187051532.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/post-279-1187051538.jpg Akro Flinties: (I think a Morphy Auction) http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/post-279-1204325489.jpg

Brian Graham's corkscrew spinner cup has been lost twice. The thread he originally posted it is no more and the copy he let me post is no longer where he hosted it. BUT Dani has a spinner cup and other equipment in this thread: Akro Stats, Cork Counts These patents have been annotated to show where the spinner cup should fit. I didn't do it. I'm still not quite able to picture it myself even with aids like this. (click to enlarge) Check out the color coding to show which glass tank the ribbon is coming from!

Here's a thread at the Akron Marbles forum, What exactly is an Akro Agate Imperial, with an Imperials box. The contents are oxbloods. edit: Thread no longer available.

Hero box, Brown Thrashers: (click to enlarge) Unique box, Akro style: Unique box, Master style (for comparison): (source: Ron's Marbles, Toys And Things)

A definite Popeye patch, and its brother Cork! These two are from the same Popeye box. One of those pictured above. There also seems to be at least one more "error" in that box. (click to enlarge)

(click pix to enlarge) Popeye Box with the peewee: #236, the popeye box with the red and blue patch pictured further down in this thread: And now a #116 yellow popeye box: At the time of this writing, this box is being auctioned by Alan. He says the yellow is more rare than the red. His description: (We know that popeye boxes didn't always come with what we now call popeyes.) A note about popeye color combos .... Here's Block's 2002 list in order of increasing rarity: red/yellow green/yellow red/green dark blue/yellow light purple/yellow dark purple/yellow powder blue/yellow red/blue red/orange orange/green blue/green black/yellow hybrids Alan's archived Akro page has practically the same list, but doesn't mention orange/green, and he says "dark blue/red" instead of red/blue. A purple/red has been spotted but didn't make either list.

#250 box: (click to enlarge)

I think those in this particular bubble gum box would have been sold as Royals. Here's a Royals box Dani posted at LOM, size 11/16" to 23/32". (source) (click link below thumbnail to enlarge) http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/AkroRoyals_Zaboo.jpg

Kullerbubbel Gum Box: One day I might decide which views I'm okay with omitting. Until then ... (click links below thumbnails for larger images) http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg01.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg02.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg03.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg04.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg05.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg06.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg07.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg08.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/bg09.jpg