sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 The first base glass we used looked opalescent. It was translucent and it made a nice base glass for a lot of different marbles. (Not all pictured here) this one has pink and blue ribbons along with the black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Another with the same base glass. Blue, yellow, and black ribbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 And one more. Pink, blue, yellow, and black ribbons in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 This marble is named "Lil Ray". It is named for Bobby Newman's grandson.Pink and blue with black aventurine ribbons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Griff sprinkled a lot of marbles in this run called "The West Virginians". Here are a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 I seem to be the only one posting about the marbles. I don't think anybody knows that Lawrence E. Alley III, grandson of L. E. Alley the owner of Alley Agate came to our run and took part as a worker. His cousin Frank Sellers had been trying to get his to come for a long time. Mr. Alley helped do all the work that the rest of us did. He is writing a book about his father and his grandfather and he wanted to write about his experience with marbles. He told us he hadn't been in a marble factory since he was a little boy. He seemed to enjoy everything about it. He will be writing a chapter about his experience at Sammy's Mountain Marbles Lawrence E. Alley III and Dave Mcullough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Mr. Aley taking a photo of some marbles he was helping to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Griff and Linda Simmons did all the sprinkling of frit, lutz, or other sprinkles on the marbles. Here is David Griffie and Linda Simmons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sissydear Posted May 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 You even caught the elusive Dave Akers in that last one. I have pics of everyone working in the last two Buddies runs and when I start editing, Dave is not in them. He's one of the best workers so how come I don't catch him with the camera? The group picture is the only one I got of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 I finished sorting families last night and took time to make 5 boxes of keepers for me and 5 for Joseph. This is most of the families in the West Virginian run, but not all. I have not photographed the lutz marbles yet and there are many.Box 2: row 2 is "LIL RAY", row 3 and 4 are Griff's sprinkles, row 8 is small Bud PlatinumsBox 1 has a lot of the translucent based marbles in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 Box 3 Box 4: row 7 is large "Bud Platinums" and row 8 is "Sophisticated Lady". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 Box 5: row 1 has colorized mica sprinkled on it. Our "West Virginian" run is very colorful and has a lot of families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted May 22, 2013 Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 Again, great pictures, Edna! And that is neat that Lawrence Alley III was there. I'm looking forward to his book. Did he mention any time frame for completion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 Ron Shepherd spent a lot of time with him. He might know. I did not hear Mr. Alley talk about when the book would be out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted May 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 Now for the special marbles that were treated by David Griffie or Linda Simmons. I liked to call them Griffed or Simmonsed. Some have frit, some lutz frit in larger pieces, some lutz mist, some lutz ribbons, and some colorized mica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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duffy Posted May 22, 2013 Report Share Posted May 22, 2013 awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISHSLAYERMARRBLEGRIFF Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Its your fault Duffy! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvrons Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Lawrence (Larry) Alley III said his book is almost complete. It will not be a identification guide to Alley marbles. It will include marbles,childrens dishes,glass animals,etc.,but it will be a lot about the family history,his grandfather,father and his self. It should be ready to publish this fall. There will be some interesting information in it. Like one item may be a detailed list of everything that Marble King purchased from Lawerence Alley. Larry spent a little over a week here finishing up some more research for the book. He was pleased when he left,plus he had a good time. I have a lot of pictures,but i can only load three at a time here,and they are small. I have many detailed pictures of the original Alley Salesman sample case. Lots of pictures of the different Chinese Checker marbles by Alley. Some of these are unusal colors and swirls. I also have 300 pictures of a recent Alley marble dig at Pennsboro WV. I don't have time to load three pictures at a time per post,thats 100 post. There is no way that i know which ones to post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 gutta perca...yeah right.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sissydear Posted May 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Thanks Ron. You must be using the photo host built into this site. I'm still using the old one I started with back in the ninetys. Ranchoweb lets me post all I want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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