marbles

You’re As Sharp As A Marble.

June 23, 2015 — 20 Comments

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F/ 9.0, 1/60, ISO 250.

Day 174 / 365

I didn’t lose all my marbles, but i definitely spill them.       🙂

Interesting Fact: Marbles were first mass-produced in Akron, Ohio in 1884 when the Akron Toy Company began producing clay marbles. The man behind the marbles, Samuel C. Dyke, founded The American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company in 1891, which became the biggest American toy company of the 19th century. For the first time, marbles became cheap enough for children to buy them with their own money.  ( http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/03/neatolicious-fun-facts-marbles/ )

I Think I’m Loosing My Marbles!

January 29, 2015 — 17 Comments

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F/18.0, 1/60, ISO 160.

Day 29 / 365

You may not have lost all your marbles, but there’s definitely a hole in the bag.   🙂

Interesting Fact: The glass maker Elias Greiner Vetters Sohn worked for Farbglashuette Lauscha, a German glass company founded in the 1500s. In 1846 he invented the marbelschere, or marble scissors, with which a glassmaker could cut a rope of glass and forms balls with the soft pieces. Greiner received a patent in 1849 for the invention of “artificial semi-precious and precious stone balls”, or as we call them, glass marbles. To produce enough of these hand-made marbles, the company gave Greiner his own factory.  ( http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/03/neatolicious-fun-facts-marbles/ )