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Ronnie, Sounds as if you've perfected an accurately restored pontil. Much better than the recessed dremel-tool pontil you used to make. How can a collector tell this type of restored pontil from an original? I would like one for my collection of fakes and reproductions. Do you have for sale, any restored marbles with this pontil? regards, Hansel

Craig, References are mentioned in the text and then listed alphabetically at the end of the book. A cursory search failed to find the reference in the text, but the article describes the well documented method of making limestone marbles and dyeing them with colored powder and sulphur. Bert Cohen once had me smell the sulphur in a small bag of colored limestone marbles he obtained from Germany. Hansel

Interesting article; thanks for posting. It's referenced, along with dozens of other papers, in "Colonial Period and Early 19th-Century Children's Toy Marbles" by Richard Gartley and Jeff Carskadden. Any list member interested in this subject should have a copy of this book. Available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0962693189 or send me $25 via paypal and I'll send you a copy post-paid. (plus extra postage to outside the USA) [email protected]

Here's a similar box, but with only one insert. No other markings. Size is approx 6" X 4 5/8" What size is yours?

The article was probably not refering to Codd type bottles, which were designed to be refilled: http://en.wikipedia....dd-neck_bottles

This was on eBay recently: Figure is not pictured in Block and Payne's book on Sulphides.

Thanks Al, There's an empty one pictured in "American Machine-Made Marbles", so this makes three that I know of. Hansel

Perhaps the board was never intended for marbles. Here's one that came with ceramic pegs and a dog.

Nice collection. Bet they're all German, even the "Akron rollers". What do you say Brian? Are Akron rollers made in Akron?

That's a cut in half no longer flying snowman sticker on top of the box. Don't know how it got there.

Anyone know if the marbles look like Cairo mibs?

"Nifty. Interesting observation about the magnification." You can 'reverse' the magnification by looking at the marble under water. (Use water that's not too much different in temperature from the marble, so as to avoid cracking the glass)

Ronnie, Were you the first to use the term "corkscrew" to describe Akro's spiral marbles? If not you, do you know who named them? regards, Hansel

I too thought they looked suspiciously new, but Smitty says his auction pics were better than the real things, which have folds, tears, water and tape stains. I was just wondering if anyone had ever seen similar signs. Thanks.

Recently sold at Smitty's marble auction in Ohio. Anyone seen them before?

Very nice, thanks! regards, Hansel

Wayne, Could you please post pics of the pre-1927 medals of that design? They're rare. regards, HJansel

mib from dictionary.com noun 1. a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter. 2. mibs, ( used with a singular verb ) the game of marbles. Origin: 1890–95, Americanism ; shortened variant of marble

Why would you expect me to comment on marbles I don't collect and of a mysterious origin? Just about the only thing I know is Bill Tow told me Les told him to sell his exotics.

Are you *sure* they're not from Payne? I have no knowledge of archeology, but why wouldn't the common aphorism "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" apply here?

here's another new "antique" marble http://www.ebay.com/itm/150649513892

I don't think Danny Turner ever sold any of the "newer" CAcs. He told me he was sent a large group from a collector in California to sell on consignment, but could not convince himself they were genuine CAC. The exotic CAC marbles Danny sold were different. Those were similar to, and/or pictured in Grist's Big Book of Marbles, 1st Ed, 1993, Pg 58 Same picture in the 2nd Ed., 2000, pg 72

http://cgi.ebay.com/Marbles-MINT-19-32-CHRISTENSEN-AGATE-COBALT-GUINEA-/170681948618 Looks different from most guineas I've seen.

Other than new German sulphides, has anyone seen any other modern German glass marbles mimicking antiques? I wonder if this wasn't made in the USA? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280721078071

Art Bowles <bowles6675 (at) aol (dot) com> .