richsantaclaus Posted September 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Thanks guys - it is already difficult to keep all these things straight...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 I'm going to open that Alox Bag and get some photos of the mibs... Will post the pics shortly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted September 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 I can't wait to see them up close - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Here we go... The top three are opaque and 2 colors each no white. The rest all have a a transparent base... The top 3 mibs and the 1st mib second row and the bottom mib all react to a black light... Photo #1 Top row has two 3/4" and one 1"- mibs... All others are 5/8"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Photo #2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Photo#3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Photo #4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Keep in mind, I'm not saying these are Alox mibs, because I don't know... All I can say is they were sealed in the bag yesterday, and I opened it up today... Can anyone ID them??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 They're Jabos. I'm just trying to decided how confident to sound when I suggest that they're made from Fenton cullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 I agree. Those are fantasy bags. Alox did not make the Army, Navy, Air Force series. I do have other Alox bags with a variety of other marbles, like MK. I thought the ones with MK's are fantasy bags also even if Alox did buy from other manufacturers but ... I also understand that Alox bags and headers were available separately and may have just been filled with other company marbles. Here are some pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 They're Jabos. I'm just trying to decided how confident to sound when I suggest that they're made from Fenton cullet. What does Fenton cullet have to do with it??? Now that we decided the mibs are Jabos, what time frame do they fit into??? I have 4 more 1'' mibs almost identical to the one I posted... Different colors I do believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Time frame? How close do you want it? After 1990 is a start. Why did I mention Fenton cullet? Because you mentioned the glow. I think the Fenton cullet explains the uranium glow. But I'm not certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted September 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 I can help here I think. I have Fenton cullet that is the exact same color as 5 of the marbles in your picture sitting in my garage workroom, glass area right now. Jabo uses Fenton glass in their runs. Fenton cullet has a glow in some of the cullet too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted September 11, 2010 Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 I can help here I think. I have Fenton cullet that is the exact same color as 5 of the marbles in your picture sitting in my garage workroom, glass area right now. Jabo uses Fenton glass in their runs. Fenton cullet has a glow in some of the cullet too. TY Rich and you too Steph... How many marble manufactures had the uranium glow to them??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted September 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2010 Good question - I just find old green glass, take my UV light to it, if it glows nicely, I buy the glass, break it up into cullet and make my marbles with it no matter where the piece was made so I can't tell you how many originally made UV glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Don't know -- but I have UV examples from Akro (lots), Alley (not so many), and Christensen (not so many). But I just got a new UV light and discovered that some of the Akro mibs I thought weren't UV were, so I'm going to go back through everything and hope for some more nice surprises -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 I would bet some marbles from every manufacturer will have reactivity to UV light(GLOW) There are many compounds besides Uranium Oxide that will have a UV reaction in glass. It is the bright green of Vaseline glass that we are familiar with that Uranium Oxide provides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 It's also interesting how reactivity will vary with the wavelength of your UV source - might be why Ann is finding "new" ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Yep -- The ones I knew about now appear hotter than heck, instead of just hot; some glow green that didn't, with my old (tiny, cheap) UV light, and others, for the first time, are glowing orange. Didn't think I had any of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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