Steph Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Along with the MFC stock certificate photos, Ron sent these of a Navarre certificate. What other Navarre marbles/items do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2014 Expanding this to all Leighton ... with this little clip which appears to have been a goal which didn't happen. If I'm not mistaken, this is the year Leighton opened the Navarre plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Anyone have any Navarres or Barbertons or other Leightons they're pretty sure about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 The sound of Ann weeping piteously . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Wow, thank you for showing them. That is a beautiful assortment - stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 The sound of Ann weeping piteously . . . Not trying to make you weep, nor is it entirely my doing. Steph asked: "Anyone have any Navarres or Barbertons or other Leightons they're pretty sure about?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migbar Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 I wasn't weeping...they kinda gave me a brain boner, though.... so thanks for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 This one WILL make you weep.Size is 1-7/16".I imagine this marble sat under a porch freezing and thawing night after night for who knows how long.No glass missing,just alot of sub surface fractures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migbar Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 (sniffle....sob...whimper...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Don't cry, I'm planning to have it fixed one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Hansel broke my optic nerves this time!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Chew on this :-) Summer 1898. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Very cool. And without Leighton's help, would Martin Christensen have been able to make marbles? Or Akro? Marble history would have looked very different without him. Do we know what made him think to get into marbles in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wediscount2 Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Hansel, Those thing's are a work of art. Ronnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Hansel, Those thing's are a work of art. Ronnie Ronnie, I doubt production marble makers were considered artists. Although prettier than the "homely and unbecoming" marbles previously available, these marbles were also made for kids to beat up. Factory workers banged them out, probably with little thought other than getting the job done as quickly as possible. If they were common, I doubt you'd consider them works of art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Are there any catalog illustrations of Navarre marbles? ... or other Leighton marbles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 I want to know what was flying passengers to all those cities in 1898????????????????????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 The figure of speech "flying trip" has been around since at least the early 1800's. Thomas Jefferson made mention of someone taking a flying trip in 1806. ( : ETA: George Washington made plans for a flying trip in 1795. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 So James F. Harris was their flying salesman in 1898. I just googled James F. Harris, Akron and found his namesake was killed just 2 days ago. Bizarre. http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/summit-county/2014/04/28/akron-two-charged-with-mans-death/8410705/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Here are some Barberton marbles Road Dog posted a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Barberton because they were green? I heard somewhere lime/fluorescent was an associated color with Barberton for some reason. Nice horizontal swirls Hansel, a couple hypnotic ones there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 I also heard that about lime and Barberton. If RD is around maybe he can tell us more .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 That was a glass color that I excavated in Barberton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdesousa Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Imitation Navarres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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