Steph Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 (edited) Here's one to start. Another might be coming. Big download. Trusting that it's large enough for most to read. A larger size is available. . . (Here's a bigger copy, about a meg download, might need to double click for full size) [edit: photobucket changed things -- it's still larger if you use the magnifying feature -- but photobucket won't let you see full size unless you download] Edited January 9, 2015 by Steph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Here's the second. Again larger copies are available. These views are photos of a high quality 11" x 15" reproduction of an original poster owned by Bob Geis. Bob still has copies for sale, two-sided on heavy stock for $10 plus postage if you are interested. Contact RHGeis(at)Venable(dot)com . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 I love seeing something pretty much proving that Germany was using machines to make slags at the same time(or earlier) than we were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 These posters came from Herbert Kühnert and were sent to Fred Wright in the 1960's - somewhere I have a copy of the letter that describes these items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Thanks Steph - nice work finding these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Not mine, Rich. The pix are donated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Very cool pictures anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 Thanks Steph,here's an account from Herbert Kühnert,from 1935 Akronmarbles would you want to post the letter? winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted May 14, 2011 Report Share Posted May 14, 2011 Thanks Steph,here's an account from Herbert Kühnert,from 1935 Akronmarbles would you want to post the letter? winnie Winnie, Can you display the rest of the account, and could someone here translate pertinent parts? The account is for someone, or a firm, in Scheibe-Alsbach, a town less than 5 miles from Lauscha, as the crow flies. The town is famous for porcelain. Wonder what glass products they were buying from Kühnert. Doll's eyes? http://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/thuringia/scheibe_1/00.php We were told by our German marble-dealer guide that scenic chinas were made there. It would be interesting to know if any marble fragments have really been found in any of their dumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted May 14, 2011 Report Share Posted May 14, 2011 there is no rest of the account,I've saved this years ago from Ebay,because it gives some evidence that Germany has made marbles. I made a fault as you can see,it's not from Herbert Kühnert but from G.Kühnert. I'll try to translate: Right under G.Kühnert&Co,Glashüttenwerk it says: Christmas decorations-Glass marbles-.......-buttons-Glass toys. Lauscha 26 May 1935. Account for Erich Höhn Scheibe Alsbach. We send by......... 1 box....... 2 boxes Glass marbles "marmorriert=marmoreal?" 5.70. It seems that Herbert Kühnert was a son of glass manufacturers born in 1887-1970. winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 I think we should all start calling mica's 'glimmers'since they were named such. (funny tho, I thought I had posted that poster a year or so back? oh well, maybe i forgot, but IAMC members have had it in their newsletter some time past. LOL!) I love the fact that many of the german slags have a very similar diaper fold seam as CAC. makes one really wonder...and I bet a few of you go look at your CAC slags.. heehee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 Correction...the posters were sent from H. Kuhnert to Roger Miller in August of 1966...not to Fred Wright. I believe the Bob Geis poster is form 1918 and shows marbles from the Frabglas Hutte. Hansel's poster os from the G Kuhnert company. Hansel - was there a number one wrtitten on the back of your poster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Ahhhhh - upon studying my documents more. It would appear Kuhnert states that German machine made marble production started in 1918 - it doesn't give a actual date for the Geis poster. Those are probably pages from a Der Universal Spielwaren Katalog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Correction...the posters were sent from H. Kuhnert to Roger Miller in August of 1966...not to Fred Wright. I believe the Bob Geis poster is form 1918 and shows marbles from the Frabglas Hutte. Hansel's poster os from the G Kuhnert company. Hansel - was there a number one wrtitten on the back of your poster? My poster is one of several identical (but in better condition) posters I bought in Germany in 2002. I was told they were "found in the basement of an old house" in Lauscha. I think the poster sent to Roger Miller had a stamp from the Kuhnert company on the front. This poster is printed on thin, fragile paper and I'm guessing was probably mass produced and used as an advertising flyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Thanks Hansel. There is nothing written on the back side of yours at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 This is a most interesting topic and gives one a bit of history - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 Thanks Hansel. There is nothing written on the back side of yours at all? Brian, Took me a while to get to an original poster. Nope, nothing on the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyzora Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 (funny tho, I thought I had posted that poster a year or so back? oh well, maybe i forgot, but IAMC members have had it in their newsletter some time past. LOL!) Ah ha, that is why it seemed familiar! The ones for sale on Ebay are not available to UK so I just enjoy the copy here, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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