TheVacorFan

Sorry I haven't really responded to this thread in a long time. The fact that I couldn't find any further info on Hopf, even when asking the city/state archive of Coburg has basically stalled my research completely. I do now have Renée Holler's "Murmeln, Schusser, Klicker" book, but it doesn't reveal more about the company, except for the marbles they made. I find the marbles on the book's cover a bit hard to discern from Veiligglas. I think the ones from Hopf appear to have less crisp definition between the ribbon colours, but even that is disputable. I couldn't find any other differences.

That's a cool Peltier, but no Lutz. I think you may be mistaking the orange-ish colour combined with the bubbles for Lutz. It looks a bit like glitter and is almost gold in colour, surely that must be Lutz? No, it's not. It may create a similar effect, but it's far different from actual Lutz (copper or goldstone). When you get more experienced with real Lutz and AV, you'll be able to discern them from any look-alike-effects. It's quite a process, but you'll get it down eventually

What's it called? Sorry, I don't remember...

I just received a reply: The city archive also has no records of Hopf, but they recommended the Naturmuseum Coburg (museum of nature of Coburg) to me. Upon visiting the museum's website, I found that they have a marble mill, but it seems like they don't have any Hopf marbles. In the picture, that the link I've attached leads to, you can see they do have German marbles, but I don't recognise any Wirepulls. http://naturkunde-museum-coburg.de/index.php/ausstellungen/miscellanea

Update: No reply as of yet. IDK if I should contact them again, I'll keep waiting for a bit.

Lookin' nice!

Well, the state archive of Coburg said that they don't have a record of this company. However, they said I should try contacting the city archive of Coburg. That makes sense, since they are the ones who keep the records of companies in Coburg. So, I'll try that and let you know.

I'm gonna try contacting the archive of Coburg to see if they know anything regarding Hopf marbles.

I have ~5958 marbles, I still wanna have more. So yes, I'd say you definitely should

Cool picture!

If I was a tree, I'd be a tree.

I just listened to it, but I think I have to say that it's not really my cup of tea. However, I can understand why many people enjoy it, maybe it's an acquired taste...

By the way, I also like Bring Me The Horizon, especially "Sleepwalking" (the instrumental alone is already really good IMO).

Sounds cool (pun intended lol), thanks for the recommendation

Yup, nothing about Hopf or marbles.

I'm also partial to classical music, I especially like Chopin, Vivaldi, Mozart and Rachmaninoff.

I guess I'm the youngest one here (18), right? Most of the music from my childhood is from Need For Speed games (Pro Street, Carbon, Undercover)... Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy was and is still one of my favourite songs. So is Disturbed - Decadence, however Stricken is also really cool. Nowadays I often listen to metal, for example bands like Invent Animate or Architects.

I gotta correct myself: I just noticed that the doll-festival and the market are both in Neustadt and Sonneberg.

This is an advertisement for an antiques and collectors' market in Neustadt bei Coburg and a doll-festival in Sonneberg, held from the 14th to the 21st of May 2023. There's nothing in the text about Hopf (or marbles in general), but it does mention a museum for the German toy-industry, as well as a flea-market for antiques. Also advertised are guided tours of traditional toy-companies in Neustadt bei Coburg. Other than that, there are some festival-activities like a bouncy castle.

Wow, that does sound interesting! I hope it says who made it in Coburg

That's closer to an asteroid than to a marble XD

Thank you for the clarification

Thank you Yup, they're awesome. I've got some Opaques too, if you wanna see those, just let me know

Only £10.60? Very nice score! So, you think they were made by Hopf but how do you distinguish them from Veiligglas?

3rd group size around 1"