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Here they are, my camera isn't that good, I hope it's clear enough, the large one right on top is my favorite, it's a very flatt ribbon with unusual colors. I,ve 3 kinds of these marbles: ones with ribbon, ones almost completely fulled with a colorfull core and ones with a sort of 4 vanes cateye. I also made a picture of a jar with other Dutch marbles. Cees.

Yes most of the foreign sparklers I have, came from France, when that lady went to France, she bought several times these kind of marbles there at fleamarkets and antique stores and sold them to me, the AJAX marble also comes from France. There's one thing she didn't want to sell to me and that's an original bag with these kind of marbles, she showed me that ones and told me that maybe ones she would sell it to me, but not now. I'm still waiting, but I don't want to push, because she also sells me other marbles like handmades etc. If they are made in France: I don't know, but in Marble Mania, edited by Stanley Block, is written on page 153 that indeed some of these marbles would be made in France and packed in bars of soap, for example they name a marble with BONUX on it, Bonux is a French soap. Cees.

With the picture you'll have to wait till tomorrow, it's night now here and with my cheap camera I need daylight. I don't know if they are more common here than in the US. The good thing of collecting marbles in Holland is: there are only a few marblecollectors. And most of that few are not as fanatic as Jeroen (JVV) and I, so they don't know these marbles. That makes it easyer fore us to find them and buy them for a small price. Let's keep it that way. For most of them I gave only a few cents, that lady however knows that they are collectible and rather rare, so I payed her, I think, about $ 1 each, small or large. Cees

The one with AJAX one it has a size of 2,8 cm (1 1/8"?). I think a have about 100 of these foreign sparklers, the largest ones are 2,9 cm. But there may be larger ones, I don't know. Cees

Here's one with the name AJAX one it, so it might be true that they were packed in soap bars? This is the only one I have seen with a name on it, also found in France. Cees.

Hi Ann, I think your right, there are more kinds of these German marbles and I also think that they are from the same period and source. The marbles showed in these topic, are the same I find here in Holland and (by eBay) in Germany. I call them foreign Sparklers ( knowing the AA-one is the real Sparkler?) I was ones told by a lady, who lived in Holland and France, that these marbles were packed in bar's of soap for the children in France, but I'm not sure if that's true? What I do know is: she returns every year for her vacation to France and brought back many times these Sparklers for me, all found in France. Cees

I also think German Sparklers, do they have a U- or V- pattern on the poles? Cees