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Piece of land,i will keep my eyes open. Any specific area,does it have to be on the river? Let me know if you are in the area.

That means just one thing. You need to post more often.

Happy Birthday once again,and many more ahead! Have a good day.

It is the dark purple or black and yellow. About one year old,from the Jabo rolls.

Could there be a couple Plets in that 4th row? I have my eye on another one but need view from other side.

Roll them over once,for another picture. I see a Alley,Tater bug and a West Virginian,plus a few others.

Triker,i see you on here,be quiet,if you remember.

Sure,lots of luck!

Are these all Akro corks or popeyes? One is not Akro. Several collectors,expierenced,some over 30yrs had this quiz at the Decatur show this spring. They failed. Some of you may have seen this marble. No trick or touched up photos. For me a non Akro cork,that was not standard production. Which one?

why not,it has been tried in the past at Jabo.

Looks like a nice marble auction coming up June 15 at South Deerfield MA.

That may depend on what is the correct definition for a corkscrew. I have no doubts that i have seen many corkscrews from manufactuers other than Akro. Not as standard production,but they do happen with most all companies. It is simple Akro did not make the only,ever,made corkscrew type marble. They may have been the only one to do it as a standard production item.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and Many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve,don't forget me when the offers start. Plus,i may have some for your next auctions. I need to know when and details.

Have a great time but leave a few. I will be staying home this time. I have done 7 shows in 5 months,not complaining. But also going back to Maine in three weeks.

That is true,but Griff pulled in his share of Jumob's. There were lots of doubles the whole trip. It is nice to argue over who gets the one only net. Great time,also many THANKS to Sarah,Jeff and Logan(moose gravy),for the bed,breakfast and dinners.

I know one of them. I know what the background is.

Thanks for the reply Alan. I guess that i have got use to hearing cullet also as colored and clear scrap glass,like the old Vitrolite tiles,pieces from Fenton glass,Wissmach stained glass,window glass,etc. refered to as cullet. Almost if not all the old WV marble companies along with Jabo today used this for color in making marbles. The Gabbert family,cullet company in Williamstown WV since the early 1930,s still hauls and supplies cullet or colorant,today to Jabo and others. Not all but a big percentage is one solid color and flat. Or different shapes from Fenton,different thickness,usually broken up different sizes. This piece of av/lutz looking,is similiar to vitrolite tile pieces,size and thickness but most of the Vitrolite tiles were ribbed on the back side,for the mastic or cement. This piece is smooth on the back. Some of the Vitrolite had the bumps or bubbles like this piece. Probably why they were rejected. We also use the rods,bars,etc at Jabo for marble colors. But Dave always has buckets of broken flat single colored glass to use for color striping. He also has flat pieces of broken solid color glass with green aventurine. The old company owners and workers just refered it to me as marble cullet. Vitrolite was also used by Alox. Most of the Vitrolite tiles were about 1/4 inch thick,but they made it over one inch thick. We found large amounts of it,even one inch pieces at Alox. It was almost always a single consistent color. They did laminate two colors together but they are rare. Marble companies that definately used Vitrolite were,Akro,Alley,Alox,Cairo,Heaton,Champion,Davis,Jackson,MK,Ravenswood. Of course Vitro,that name likely came from Vitrolite. Art Fisher was a employee of Vitrolite. He had the idea of using Vitrolite cullet to make marbles. So Art Fisher and Prestley Lindsay(also Vitrolite employee)started Vitro Agate marble Co. right next door to the Vitrolite factory. I would send you part of this av/lutz piece,colorant or cullet,but it does not belong to me. I may have to check some of my dirty buckets from years back. There is tons of Vitrolite and other pieces left behind at the above marble sites.

Thanks Don !

Alan,what does colorant look like? Or what is the difference in colorant and cullet.

I may try some more pictures if we ever get any sunlight or different lighting. The cullet matches exact. CLICK on the picture and enlarge.

A piece of cullet found at Alley St,Marys site that matches Alley av/lutz marbles. I am not so sure Alley av/lutz marbles were a chemical reaction or that they just happened. Alley was adding av/lutz cullet. Now to find out if he or who made the cullet glass? Difficult to photograph but the flat piece of cullet matches the Alley av/lutz perfect and it is all through the cullet,solid with the same exact color av/lutz.