Road Dog
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The little red slag in the dragon's grasp is .50". A purple 2 seam CAC that is .49"
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Thanks Seph.
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My Slag Guardian.
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Nice Find.
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Yellows
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My thoughts too Steph.
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Great Links! Thanks John
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Looks like he was a Machinist for Hartford Empire Company at some point. Suppose he could have been involved with Phoenix Glass Co in 1883? I have an old check made out to Phoenix Glass Co that has a W J Miller signature on the back. That's why I was wondering if it was the same Miller.
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Who was Mr. William J. Miller ? Was he associated with Phoenix Glass Co in the 1880's?
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Great info! Thanks for posting Mig.
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Had to have been after the box itself.
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Slaggy Day
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In Baumann's book he writes the early machine could only round one marble at a time. He also writes a pair of workers could make 10,000 marbles in a ten hour day. I think that comes to about 1 marble every 7-8 seconds.
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Baumann describes it as a single gather in his book as well, but the way it is written in both books it doesn't say if multiple marbles were from a single gather or not. So it may be possible.
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Robert Block's book " Collecting Early Machine-made Marbles" (The M.F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company) Here is a pic of a shear mark on a 13/16" Red Slag I have.
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Robert Block and Baumann describe the early machine and shear process in his book. It was single gather and one marble at a time. So the Shear would only be on one pole of each marble. It makes sense the tails would be towards the shear mark because of how they turned and handled the gather.
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Could be Galen.
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Thanks
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There is one bright yellow in this pic I thought to be MFC. The construction is right and all, but that bright yellow could be CAC as well?
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I have a couple 1" reds. Here are a pic of some 9's . The one at the back is 13/16" and has a Shear mark. Think it's early Handgathered Akro.
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What Else Do You Collect Besides Marbles
Road Dog replied to Killermarbles's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Nice Galen. I see empty wall space though. -
What Else Do You Collect Besides Marbles
Road Dog replied to Killermarbles's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Lets see if I can list them all. Hot Wheels Arrowheads Old Medicine Bottles Old Canning Jars Old Books Tom Clark Gnomes Hummels Old Cookie Jars Old Salt & Pepper Shakers Gemstones Pottery Knives Hatchets NC Seashells Shark Teeth Model Cars -
yup
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Slag Group
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Speaking of Red Slags. They are my thing too!
