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Not sure if these have been discussed. (Steph?) I've collected them for years and recently came across a couple rare examples. Here's an interesting article: https://www.fohbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MarbleBeads_BE_SeptOct2010.pdf

This guy's got the right idea:

Working on a Sunday - agates are heavy!

Sure, go ahead and use the pics. It'd be interesting to hear what the knife guys have to say. Thanks.

Any book on handmade glass marbles would have illustrations of painted German sulphides. Here's one that was found in India. Sorry the picture's not better.

What about the print of the logo and the print on the ends of the box makes you think the box is earlier?

Aren't blood alleys just marble marbles with more red lines than average?

No, no lettering on the small blade.

This week's find in a group of crockery marbles. "Blood alleys", at one time the most prized marble for shooting. About 9/16" (15 mm) perfectly spherical, so machine ground. I'm sure they've been discussed here, but I can't find the topic.

Any idea what this was made for? There's a hard glossy coating with an interesting mosaic design on what seems to be a 5/8" glass marble.

Very interesting observation. You find the neatest ads! Your hunch is probably correct; this description could be spin for plain stone marbles, as "Italian marble is considered to be superior by many due to its purity, durability, and beautiful white color." https://www.marbleandgranite.com/blog/2016/november-2016/what-s-so-great-about-italian-marble However, in Jeff Carkskadden's book, top of page 76, he mentions a "white alley", a "marble fashioned from real marble", described 110 years before this ad from the Harmon Drug Co. Perhaps at some time, marbles were made from Italian marble.

Many antique painted German sulphides have come out of India.

Good work! Thanks for keeping us updated.

Akro was incorporated in 1914.

These boxes were labeled with the marbles they originally contained - onyx - or slags as most collectors call them. The bit about fusing metal and glass is not all spin. I suppose metal oxides incorporated into glass for coloring can be considered "metal".

Chad, what a wonderful find! It would be immeasurably more informative if you could add the date these ads were published. Thanks again for your hard and diligent work. Hansel

Well done!

Very nice work! And thanks for sharing. One minor,irrelevant question : how did you manage to cross the border during covid?

No. 7 box. Anyone seen another?