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???? A Guinea can have a lot of action going on inside. I have had a few Guinea Cobra's and a Guinea Cyclone.

That is called gold lutz. Man made glass gold lutz not copper. You can buy it in 5lb, 10lb, and bigger chunks. You can also or could buy it in cube form, about 3/4 inch by 3/4 by one inch. But the bigger chunks work better. Much of the cubes used did not show up. Most times the big chunks are broken up, added to contemporary handmade and machine made marbles,. Sometimes it is heated and pulled or stretched into long strings of glass. To be used later for building a cane type handmade marble. I have broken up a lot of it and used it at Jabo. Also helped Sammy Hogue pull some 6 to 10 feet long, 1/8 inch diameter strings of it, to use in building his handmade marbles. This used as a 50/50 mix with another certain glass, makes excellent Akro oxblood, on machine made marbles.

Do what ?

Maybe it is not a rumor ? I just always wonder where some marble info comes from. I have always heard, well because it has just always been that. That is what the book says. Some person had it in a Ebay listing. It is on the internet. Well so many times over 25 years, checking into many of those statements. Things turned out to be false. Years ago I learned to not rely on one source for my marble information. I am always asking myself how, when, where, why ? That is also for a source of info. Why did they say that, where did they get the info, etc. Vitro may have made spray paint can marbles ? As always I just wanted any more details to answer my own questions. I just try to not spread third, or fourth hand, hear say information in print just because one person said so. But sometimes that is all there is. That is when I go searching. Until I am happy with the answers I find. Which sometimes was years. Still looking for many answers. Now I will see if I can find two or three different other sources which satisfy me that Vitro made spray paint can marbles. Which has good odds of being true. Bogard did it, Ravenswood did it, Jabo did it, Marble King did it. Did Akro, Peltier, Vitro, who else ??? Why are you putting that person who told you, to rest ? Did you find their info was wrong ? Or let them know other info, as to how they were wrong ?

I must have missed it someplace but I did not see Russell Adams mentioned. Always looking for more info. Let us know what his ties are with the marbles at Sistersville.

Yes

I am going with Champion.

Peltier

Way to large for any spray paint can. Spray paint cans use marbles most often 9/16 inch, then 1/2 inch and the largest 5/8 inch. Where did you find that Vitro made spray paint can marbles ? I know some other companies did but never found any info that Vitro did. I am not sure how many industrial marbles they made, for what or how often ? The original marble is a oversize error. Looks like who ever made it let the temperature get to high. The glass went dark and then the flow got to fast which made the hot glass glob to large for the grove in the rollers. So it could not be rounded without the roll marks. To large and it would not spin correct in the rolls groves. Doesn't make much difference in who made it. Might have been small numbers or more. But most were discarded because they were errors, mistakes, non sellable .

Same family who made them. Related but not a Calligraphy. Lots of Alleys but not lots of Calligraphies.

Peltier Mansion with Boyce Lundstrum. Mike may have been there two or three times ?

Thanks Al. I am no teacher on shooting. I am no backspin or accurate shooter. But the WVMCC can give them some marbles history, supply marbles, cheering squad, maybe some cash, prize's , etc. I hope to be back with them in a couple weeks. At the start we gave them some history and style or types of marbles with examples on display. At the end the instructor lined them up and said it was test time. He said if you listened to our guest they described some types of marbles. What were they ? Hands went up all down along the line. One at a time down the line , Ribbons, swirl, patch and ribbon, corkscrew, confetti, patch, bumblebee, superman,.

I have high doubts of Ravenswood with all that yellow.

Requirements for Alley Mt. Dew, first is transparent green base. Second requirement is primary swirl color of bright yellow. Some can have a small amount of orange swirl. Does your marble fit the above two main requirements or including the third option ? If no, it is not a Mt. Dew. Your marble has transparent green base with yellow, coral, orange, two or three shades of brown. To many colors for a Mt. Dew. It is a Alley Exotic Coral, some of these where yours has brown, can have shades of purple. When you add lots of different colors over top of bright transparent green, and those colors edges also lay over top of each other, colors look different than if separated. With numbers of colors like three, four, five and they lay over top of each other anyplace. It is difficult to know what the original colors were. Glass colors do not mix to make a new color. Glass colors are not like paint. But if you thin a color enough, or lay it over top of another color. It can look very different than original. The true and pure bred Mt.Dew is a transparent green base with bright yellow swirl. Any other transparent green base with coral color and a coupe other colors are the Exotic Coral. The plain Coral is transparent green base with a coral color. Now some people include almost opaque green with a coral color as a Alley coral. Then there is always the discussion what is Coral color ? Your marble will not fit with the plain Alley Coral. Your marble will not fit with Alley Mountain Dew. Your marble fits best with the Alley Exotic Coral.

The left is a Alley Exotic Coral. The Alley Moutain Dew main colors are transparent green base with yellow swirl. Some can have a small amount of orange swirl. The Alley Exotic Coral is transparent green base with coral color swirl as the main swirl color. The Exotic Coral has extra swirl colors other than the Coral. Which can be orange, yellow, purple or all three. Mt. Dew Exotic Coral

These were made with three different color trucks, a blue like above, a yellow and a green. Each set was packaged with a box of Ravenswood marbles. These marble boxes also come in three colors red, blue and green. The big box for the entire set is shaped on the end like a garage roof gable. Why you have one with no paint, I am not sure ? The man who made and sold these also had a patent on a steam shovel or crane as he called it. I talked with his grandson about the Truckers Marble Coaster. The grandson had six of the Automatic Crane for Trucking or shovel toys left, after everyone in the family had one. His grandfather got the patent but never got to sell any of Automatic Cranes. They also were going to use 9/16 Ravenswood marbles. A marble is dropped in the smoke stack and it comes out in the shovel bucket on the end of the crane arm and could be dumped into the truck or something else. I was able to purchase four of the six. I gave one as Christmas present, I sold one and have the other two. Another collector friend in Iowa got the other two. I also have the prints for the automatic crane. I did a Ravenswood Novelty video with Stephen Bahr that includes these and other toys that used marbles sold by Ravenswood. The grandson had a small shed which held the remaining boxes of Ravenswood marbles. Many were destroyed by age and weather. Most of the marbles were shoveled up into buckets, and remaining boxes sold to a collector in Ohio.

All Jabo

I hate to break the news to you. But it is here. I was surfing three news channels this morning and eventually all three had this. A new App is out and spreading faster than Facebook, Tic toc and others. It is all about AI or IA or something, artificial intelligence or similar. It will do your college essay or term paper, college and now high school kids are using it to cheat with. It knows all your past history and will make your future. It will write a birthday note to your mother or wife etc. for you. A long list of what all it can write for you and you never speak or type to it. Not to far away we will have a tiny chip in your arm that will eliminate all cash, or micro chip swipe cards. I have seen ten businesses in the last month that would not accept $20.00 bills or any larger bills. I had a $46.00 Pizza Hut order and they would not accept a $50.00 bill. I had to go elsewhere and get change. We will just tell the chip to order the groceries. It will order by what we purchased in the past years. It will take a inventory and see what is gone. Once you empty a box or can you scan it with your arm and it is removed from inventory. Your arm will order the groceries, your arm will pay for it,. A driverless electric car will deliver it. Your auto robot will get the groceries at the door and put them away. A robot will vacuum the floors and the walls next. All the cost will be deducted from your arm to one central bank. For those who have to or should work. No one will have to leave home for work. You can work from the easy chair. Your arm can be your time clock. It can also wake you up in the morning ringing and shaking your arm. New and improved, easier and better life. Bed to the easy chair and back to bed. Or just stay in the chair.

A 50/50 chance when policing marbles on Ebay. This was the good 50%. At least it was removed.. It is a never ending job daily and only gets worse. I stopped, I did not have time to waste anymore on getting cursed out for informing someone of the truth. Many times which they already knew or had been told. Someday sooner or later it will probably be sold as vintage.

Wood County WV Marble Club. This was today 4 to 5pm. This is almost every week until May. Playing marbles. Not one marble game but different ones. This is what marbles were made for, to make smiles. They usually have 18-20 this week was 12. Some other sports activities were at the same time today. Getting ready for the National Marble Tournament. Will any one of them win, doubtful. But that is not what this is all about. The goal here is sportsmanship, companions, friends, family and smiles with marbles. Here below the instructor lined them all along the wall. He said we are going to lag. He would throw a sharpie pen on the floor and when he counted three they all would lag to the pen at the same time. The one who got closest to the pen won a free choice of a shooter marble. Lag means to drop or throw you marble at a target and the nearest wins. Usually done to see who goes first. Each one here knew exactly what lag meant. The pen hit the floor and they were all calculating the distance. On the count of three, a marble from each hand hit the floor and rolled toward the pen. Then they got the ok to see who won. Then the floor shock as they ran across the floor to see where their shooter ended up. We have a winner, the winner picked his prize and it was done all over again only farther away. We gave them some marble history and about collecting different marbles. Then it was questions and answers time. Yes, I drove 45-50 miles each way. I spent $30.00 or more in gas, I took 4-5 hours out of my day. Was it worth it ? It sure was. I will go back and with free marbles. This is marble collecting to me as much as driving 50 miles to look at buying marbles. Or spending 4-5 hours on the internet with marbles. When A young man smiles at you and says Thank You sir, with marbles in both hands. Yes it is marble collecting and worth it.

I am a lifetime member and a original founder of The West Virginia Marble Collectors Club. Also a lifetime member of the Texas Marble Club and the Indiana Marble club. The WVMCC is 21 years old and has always printed and mailed a color 8 to 12 page newsletter to all members normally six times per year. The articles cover anything marbles and all submitted by the members. The many years past newsletters have hundreds of articles and pictures, which are collected by some. The WVMCC has a web site which is currently being updated and will be replaced soon. The WVMCC each year does projects for children around marbles history, games, etc. I just got home from being with a group of kids known as the Wood County Marble Club. This group is practicing for the National Marble Tournament in Wildwood NJ. in 2023. Last year one of the girls got 9th place in her age group for the nation. They are getting ready for a fund raiser to help pay for the trip to Wilwood. The WVMCC show each may is what funds the newsletters throughout the year. The yearly club dues May 1 to May 1 will not alone pay for the newsletters printing and mailing. The WVMCC has members all across the US and in Canada. Many have been members since the first year the club was formed. The WVMCC officers and all help is totally volunteer. The WVMCC holds regular meetings at the Parkersburg WV library, with a annual meeting at the yearly show in May. I still have every printed copy of the WVMCC newsletters. I have lost so many articles and pictures on the internet. Many of the collectors and long time friends in those newsletters are gone now. I may be old fashioned but I like having those hard copies to look back through. I don't need a computer, smart phone or electric to do it. Not everyone has moved on. When I am gone maybe my great grandchildren will look through those old newsletters and try to imagine what it was like before the internet. People knew each other face to face, they had respect for each others views. Most deals were done with a smile, a Thank You and many included a handshake. There was so much more involved than just how much is my marble worth. I moved to the internet and chat boards before this board was ever started. But I still remember the days before marbles were big on the internet. Both have benefits for me. I chase marble information, and marbles with the internet and without it. I also try to pass that along both ways. No doubt the internet was the largest thing to spread everything connected with marble collecting. But it also has brought about many problems with collecting marbles. With the good there will always be some bad. There is no turning back the clock. Will the robots see, what we see with marbles ? There are some marble clubs alive yet today. For how long , I don't know, maybe one year, maybe five or ten ? That is all up to the members. But the future looks even more like collectors will be collecting from a easy chair in their home and no place else. But how many years will that last ? Will they learn the marbles, will they know any of the history, will they ever discuss marbles face to face during a dinner, Will they ever see another collection in person, Will they shake the hand and see the smile on another collectors happy face, will they ever place a marble in another collectors hand for free.

All Alleys.

Maybe Kokomo. Right size for these colors. They made some 9/16 with the lipstick red and dark colors.

Every WV swirl company made marbles that glow.

Seafoam maybe ? The base looks more yellow and more clear than any I have seen. It may just be the bright light ? The Seafoam is a blue color on a slight yellow almost opal base. The name is from a original automobile paint color in the late 1950.s early 1960's. Most are a wide swirl on about half of the marble. It fits all except it is brighter yellow and more clear. The Alley Seafoam is harder to find than many Alleys like Pistachio, Bacon, etc. My last pictures the flame is about as dark or as much yellow as any Seafoam, if it qualifies as Seafoam ? The blue is right. This is the only Seafoam flame that I have ever seen.