Steph

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 Elephant boot?


Hmmm ... *thinking* ... hmmmmmm

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After enlarging, I have DEAD DUCK!

Good question!

While I'm thinking about it let us enjoy
 

50 doesn't sound bad to me.

Not sure I understand the question.

Yes, there are small cosmic rainbows. I only have small ones.

wow!  

very nice

Pretty.  I expect the glass marble inside also helps in the rounding process and being able to keep control of the pattern.

Aw. Thank you for sharing.  Pistol packing Mary?  Sounds formidable!

Gorgeous bird!

Hi Lauren!   SaaSy picture!  

19 minutes ago, William said:

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I think Imperial. 

I think this group is a combination of Vacors and Marble Kings.  Vacor with the white patches which connect in the middle.  Marble King with the white patches on opposite ends and black around the middle. 

I'm seeing quite a few modern Marble Kings in the initial photos. 

The ones with the same color patch on either end such as these:

Also, I suspect these are modern Marble Kings, though the general pattern can also be found on somewhat older Vitros.

Spoke too soon. One pic remained in one of the old threads.  Here's a 1929 machine.   Later!

I'm seeing 1929 as the date for the marble vending machine(s) I saw which were actually marked as selling marbles.  The ads I saw for the WWII war years were for machines which could be used for either gumballs or marbles and didn't specify marbles on the machine.  

Soirry, no pix.  I tried but the pix disappeared from the  old thread I consulted, so I would have to do some digging.  And what I'm supposed to be digging for is my address book.  Grrrrrr. 

Just checking in.  Later!

I have ads for marble vending machines.  A couple were from before WWII.   But most are from during WWII and a lilttle after, when there was a shortage of the materials to make gumballs.  Gumball machine manufacturers still needed customers so they promoted marble sales to keep those machines in business.  

I have one of those.   

One day a four-color big'un for me.  

Thanks!  Will check that out.

What a fabulous whatever it is!

Beautiful

I have seen single-color opals.  But not sure about red.  For some reason I'm remembering orange as the color for the single-colored opal I saw.   My memory for colors is truly horrible, as in something could be blue and white striped and I might remember it as solid green -- so don't put much stock in me thinking of orange for that other marble.

I objected at first to the single-color opal being called an opal, but somewhere along the way I got the idea that Chuck B. was okay with the designation and I quit worrying about it.  

4 hours ago, akroorka said:

I would say that the odd shaped one is some sort of mineral/stone.

Ah, yes.

Hematite?

At 1" I would have thought Alley before Peltier.

But Ron the WV swirl guru is in this thread already and he didn't question Peltier, so I guess I'm wrong.

Very nice Peltier Rainbo.