Back from the recent 2022 Florida show

[wvrons]

[wvrons]

2.08 inch Onionskin

 

 

1.80 inch Akron Roller from Akron Toy and Marble Co. 

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Vintage wood box with wood blocks puzzle. Box has wood blocks which make six different puzzle pictures. The five puzzle pictures are in the lid of the box. A challenge to work, I did a different puzzle picture for photographs. It took me sixteen minutes to work the puzzle. Then another eighteen minutes to put back together the original puzzle for the kids playing marbles. Simple but effective. No cell phone, computer or battery needed. Plus it still works after all these years. 

 

[stephenb]

Nice marbles and an pretty awesome puzzle, especially in that condition! 

[Ric]

Great bunch of marbles, Ron. You know I really like those Rollers and that one's a dandy, but I didn't think they were actually made by AT&MC?

And the puzzle is really awesome - looks like you even had some fun playing with it. lol

[wvrons]

They must have made the roller marbles. S Dyke had a patent for making them. They were advertised and sold from there. They were dug there at the site by Brian G. and others.  

[Ric]

10 minutes ago, wvrons said:

They must have made the roller marbles. S Dyke had a patent for making them. They were advertised and sold from there. They were dug there at the site by Brian G. and others.  

Well okay then, I wonder where I got my information - pretty sure I didn't make it up. lol

[wvrons]

 American Marble and Toy Akro Ohio. One year before S.K. Dyke opened his new factory July 15,1890. He filed for patent no. 432,127. A device to mass produce clay marbles. Marbles were rolled in a block until they attained near-perfect symmetry.  Workers produced one million marbles per day, until the factory burned in 1904.