Steph Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 I just got a December 1931 Playthings magazine. It has several marble and marble-related entries. Including something from Albright -- I haven't seen them often. Thinking about setting up the scanner for this one ... and I need to find a cat-free surface so I can go through the magazine properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Waiting... Just shake the bag of cat food, put it in the other room and close the door! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 I have the catalog page that lists Albright. I have assumed they distributed a lot of CACs regular looking marbles as I know they did business with them. Any information would be fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Here's what I found at J.E. Albright.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 Drumroll please! hehe Gonna post them in page order as I find them. (There are some missing pages. Use your imagination about what marvels might have been removed.) First one I find is p. 14, a Rosenthal ad. Sorry it's crooked. I just got the scanner set up and I'm trying not to be too much of a perfectionist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killermarbles Posted September 30, 2013 Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 I will take two please. ;-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 Page 25 would probably be a boring scan. It has the header, "MEMBERS OF THE TOY TRADE IN THE FIFTH AVENUE BUILIDING", so it's some kind of directory and it looks like it has room numbers. Akro Agate Co. is 420. Peltier Glass Co. is 409. Wolverine Supply & Mfg. Co. is 406 -- they have some marble connection -- maybe they just poked their head around the corner to make their marble deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 Non-marble-related reflections as I scan the articles looking for any references to marbles ... ... Kinda interesting to think about the explicit commercialization of Christmas as described in a trade magazine in 1931. Don't know when the commercialization started. Just kinda interesting to see the mechanics of it at this stage. ... And then when I see a statement like "Stores are going after Christmas business hammer and tongs and are leaving no stone unturned to tell the people that this year of all years Santa Claus shouldn't be allowed to forget their kiddies," I think about this being after the start of the Great Depression. ... And on a lighter note, one of the draws one department store used to get customers in was "Free Talkies Daily". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 On p. 82 another Rosenthal reference, under "Trade Notes", including a Berry Pink mention (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 30, 2013 Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 The address for Berry Pink shown elsewhere was 350 5th. Ave. No idea if that's the "Fifth Avenue Building" mentioned above. The Rosenthal Company is shown as 45 East 17th. St. Anyway, for what it's worth, I just wanted to point out that in New York those two addresses would be very close to each other. Maybe three blocks apart at best. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 Thanks, Bob! Edit: The toy trade building was at 200 Fifth Avenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 From p. 87 another ad which isn't directly about marbles but which might be informative. A Reg'lar Fellers announcement. (Reg'lar Fellers is the brand on a box of marbles from Japan with a type of marbles whose age is still uncertain, as far as I know.) Note: The brand continued to at least 1938, because I just did a quick check and found a reference to a Playthings from that year which also mentioned toys related to the Reg'lar Fellers comic strip. "Many interesting tie-ups in the toy field are now in preparation and, according to Mr. Lindner, will be shortly announced," it was said. When I first noticed that, I wondered if the brand lasted until after the war. Reading that the brand was around in 1931/1932, I wonder that even more. thread with marble pics and date discussion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 Akro and Albright on p. 98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 Some zoom for the Albright display: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 This is good stuff, Steph. Congrats, and thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Thanks. While I'm in the neighborhood, here's another Albright ad labelled 1931. I don't know where it was published though. If those marbles need zoom: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 What marbles do you think were used for that ad? White with red ribbons? Disclaimer: the Morphy ad for this box said "marbles may not be original to box" but ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 What marbles do you think were used for that ad? White with red ribbons? Albright_CAC_2009_Morphy.jpg Disclaimer: the Morphy ad for this box said "marbles may not be original to box" but ? I'm pretty sure those glass marbles had been in that Albright box for a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Good to hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Dear Steph. I saw your ad in PLAYTHINGS. Now that I've "start your letter right"ed, I need to humbly apologize. Something wasn't feeling right about what I said earlier. I think I was taking numbers I knew and extrapolating others using D.C., not N.Y., street rules. 350 Fifth Avenue is the fricking Empire State Building! So that's at 34th. Street. A major 'crosstown' street. 200 Fifth Avenue is at 23rd. Street. (The next major crosstown street south of 34th.) 45 East 17th. Street isn't as close to 5th. Ave. as I thought. Was fooled by the low number. Fifth Ave. is the dividing line between East and West. So 1 East 17th. is just east of 5th. 1 West 17th. is just west of it. Numbers increase as you go in either direction. Causes lots of problems. The scans are really great looking! I've never had much luck with those things. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Thanks for sharing it Steph,it's so much fun to look at the old add's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2014 Bump. I have at least one more little thing to add from the Playthings issue if I can remember how I got the scanner to work ... this is in doubt... but meanwhile here is a box to go with the ad in Post #13. http://marbleconnection.com/gallery/album/324-albright/Plan is to start an Albright thread "soon" with these and others which may not be from the year 1931. But if anyone wants to keep adding Albright material to this thread, that's cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted February 1, 2014 Report Share Posted February 1, 2014 Boy! That's just a spectacular box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron110 Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Hi Steph, I just found an Albright box filled with mostly CAC's I will get more pics up when the boxes are delivered. The box on the left is the Albright Box. The one on the right is a Master Made Box. I only saved the pictures of the marbles trying to figure out what the box was backfilled with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Coolness!!!!! And now you can see it is not necessarily backfilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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