Kokomo Marbles Identifications: Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Kokomo opalescent glass marbles are believed to be produced between 1939 to about 1943 in Kokomo, Indiana at the Kokomo Opalescent Glass Company which is still in operation today.
Their marble shaping machine was purchased from the Peltier Glass Company in 1939 and the raw materials that they used to produce the marbles was shared by Peltier as well. The marble-making venture was the company’s attempt to put their waste glass from their stained sheet glass products to good use. Kokomo abandoned the marble making production some time before World War II, as they may have had some difficulty with either the production, or sales of the marbles. Thie short time frame of thier production, and small distribution makes their marbles quite rare to find, highly collectable and sometimes very pricey in the marbles market . The prices on Kokomo marbles is still volatile today and will depend on the condition and attractiveness of each particular piece.
In this Part 1 upload we tour the Kokomo collection of Kokomo natives and long-time collectors Beth Kennedy Morris and Greg Morris. We inspect, identify and discuss the collectable marbles they produced from examples that were either dug from the grounds, or obtained from ex-employees and others who were linked to, or inherited their marbles. We focus on some of the more recognizable Kokomo marble models here and look at many of the more obscure examples as well.
A big thank you to Beth and Gred for sharing their collection with us !
In the upcoming part 2 video, we will examine the expansive collection of the Kokomo Opalescent Glass Factory neigbor and glass historian / author Ken Humphrey. We will also look at their packaging products, sales boxes and net bags with Ken.
There also will be an upcoming Kokomo Opalescent Glass Factory tour.
Thank you for watching and please subscribe for future upcoming content! 🔵
For more Kokomo marbles Information and identifications, please visit our Kokomo Facebook page with Beth and other Kokomo collectors with this link :
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The community is lucky to have you thanks for the content and for preserving history
Thank you Penguin, I appreciate it. This was a fun trip,but I was running on fumes !
Strong agree!
Man, these almost make you lose your breath at times. Beautiful!
Some are absolute eye-candy !
@@stephenbahrmarbles I’ll be on the lookout in Seattle Saturday!
A new marbles video!!! Thx Stephen!
Thanks for watching Lori , I’m glad you enjoyed it !
Thanks for showing and sharing .Boy they had some quality troubles trying to push the glass to fast . I bet the guys at Akro laugh at them .
Right, it’s weird. Some are shotty, some are spectacular. They definitely go down as vintage marbles curiosities to many, but the hardcore Kokomo collectors really love ‘em!
I love the slag and the irregular of imperfect marbles. They are just so unique and fun. I actually have an imperfect one that belonged to my grandma. It somehow made it through to being sold.
Wow Meg nice ! I kinda like the shooter sized ones that look a little like Marble Kings .
Once again, Stephen...great work from yourself and everyone else involved! This should have alot of collectors doing a double take with their marbles!
Looking forward to Part 2 😊
I'm especially proud as Indiana is my home state! Born in Indianapolis, I remember being in Kokomo as a kid 😊
Thanks William! I enjoyed my stay there and meeting the fine folks in that town. That is serious basketball country! Lots of driveway hoops up everywhere, I was impressed!
Ohhh there’s even more, just when you think you’ve seen them all. They remind me so much of har candy lol. Love the transparent greens xx
God Bless 😎😍✝️🙌
KerryandBerry Vloooooogs ! 🌟thank you !
Thanks for sharing.Cool👍😎
Thank you Larry !
Wonderful Kokomo marbles!!! This video is a great education on these Kokomos!
Sone are real lookers Loaded Goat, thanks for watching!
Good video as usual. I dug up an akro Agate square ashtray recently. And turned around and dug up another broken a couple of days ago. Thanks for sharing I really enjoy these videos ✌️😎
Man Artifacts those are awesome finds !! Did you film it ? I’ll have to check your recent uploads 🦌 thanks for chiming in
@@stephenbahrmarbles yes . It's the cover image for the video . It's complete . But the other one is broken in half and it has a more pronounced swirl , such a shame it was broken. As I researched it ,, I can't tell you how happy I was in the moment of realization. The Crow flying on the bottom means Akro Agate. I did a fist pump . Crazy to dig up another but broken. But I kept it ...even broken ✌️😎. Have yourself a wonderful day my friend
Awesome story ! I’ll check it out this evening! Have an awesome day !
Thanks to Beth and Greg for sharing their awesome collection, and also to Stephen for bringing it right around the world for us to see via the magic of the internet! I'm learning so much from your videos Stephen, and starting to have a really good look at my marble collection to try and identify some of them - aroha from New Zealand.
Thanks Kim , Beth and Greg did a great job ! Thanks for watching from New Zealand : I would love to go birding there
@@stephenbahrmarbles Just let me know if you ever plan to visit - we have a holiday home in Akaroa you could use which is surrounded with native NZ birds - one of the best places to see and hear the best native NZ birds in the country!
Awesome !! Ok thanks
I have never heard of these Kokomo marbles that's awesome. I'm from in Indiana so I'm going to have to comb thru mine ...jeez lol . I can't believe I've not heard of them . So many early manufacturers I'm unaware of still after 10 years of collecting
Being from Indiana, I would think yiu are much more likely to come across these in random local lots. I searched through several hundred thousands from a marble hoarders collection here in New Jersey: and I only found 3 that I was sure of ! You’re luck should be much better
@@stephenbahrmarbles yes im thinking the same thing Stephen. Let's hope so
Great footage Stephen thanks again for another excellent presentation.
Thanks Real Time Strategy!
Hi Stephen -- I so look forward to your awesome videos. You are the rock star of the marble video world. Thanks to the wonderful couple who shared their amazing collection. This is another video that MIGHT help me identify Kokomos -- they are so tough. Live long and prosper! Cheers my friend.
Thank you Iam , I appreciate it! I’m working on a follow up Kokomo video, but this one covers most of the basics.
Thank You Beth & Greg for Sharing
Thank you for the missing link. I have alot of these and now I can easily tell the difference in hand between the other brands. Thank you again. Your the best. Can't wait for #2 :) I'm subscribed & get all your notifications. I Highly recommend all Stephens Videos. Best Help out there that exists for helping the beginners and all collectors, in identification. 🙏😎✨ Hopefully we find all kinds of new undiscovered color combos now. The hunt is on!!*
Thank you TinyTreasures I appreciate it ! I’m glad you’re enjoying the hobby! I’m beginning to edit part 2 now 🔵
I’ve only got 5 for sure kokomos in my collection, now that I’ve seen this video I’ll have to check all of my marbles again.
5 is alot !
I've not heard of kokomo marbles before, definitely have a unique look to them, thanks as always for bringing the knowledge 👍🏹
Thank you Arrowhead Reapers! 🏹 We will show more in the next upload.
...like visiting old friends. These clips are a great company. The best you all you folks. Thanks.
Thanks Jeff, I appreciate it !
Nice job Stephen, thanks for all your hard work ... 👍
Thank you Chad !
Love it....Love all the learning I get...thanks Stephen from Whitney
Thank you Whitney !
The reds are wonderful!
New subscriber & I’ve been watching all your videos to become more knowledgeable as to what I have. I have collected for years just based on whether the color or design appealed to me. Your videos are very helpful yet I am overwhelmed by the almost endless varieties & names. Any suggestions as to how to sort them out initially?
Thanks Cathy for the subscribe! I’m glad you find the content helpful. I’ve been getting requests to do a few videos about sorting and separating big lots of marbles. I will try and do a few videos about that topic, after I am done with at least one video per company. I’ll get to it for sure! 🔵
Thanks Stephen excellent information!!!! Please make a Jabo marbles video !!😁
Thanks Plitmusic , We will get to Jabo for sure!
Thanks again ❤🎉
Thanks for watching Mike !
I like her display (plastic and foam dimples. Marbles well protected! I noticed a marble with a flea bite at 6:51. Does that deter the OCD crowd from collecting them?
Absolutely not ! They’re the beauty marks of dug marbles 🔵
Thanks for sharing
Thank you John!
I always learn from you thank you 😊
Thank you Cindy ! 🔵
Here where I live there is a Fiberglass factory… fiberglass used to be solely glass.. now they use honey and syrups..(no joke)
They used to throw their marbles in a dump pile…My Dad used to take us kids there to get glass marbles…
Cool story Patricia ! You probably have a terrific collection of them . I need to learn more about the fiberglass marbles.
Good info. Ty
Hey love the video! I use to build above ground pools for 6 years in east Massachusetts and every so often at older houses some to date early 1900’s I would marble not a lot but if I emailed you a video could you look them over and if there is anything interested you can post a video to RUclips, would love to hear back. Thanks again.
Hi Joseph, that sounds like it might be an interesting topic. Email me at sbahr@scarletknights.com and maybe we could pull something off. I would like to know what you have uncovered. Thank you
Hey I tryed to send the video but it wouldn’t let me use that email I’m not sure if I was doing something wrong but do you have a different one or what I might be doing wrong
It’s possible that the video is too large of a file . You may have to send it in one minute sections . If that doesn’t work maybe we could try Google Drive App
I'd like to see a video explaining some of the features and types of marbles in detail. You mention some of them have a [feature] in passing, or say that this or that marble is a [type]. But, I'd like to know what defines those things.
Right Jeff ,we will dig a little further into identification tips in part 2 , but when we say that the majority of them can’t be reliably separated from Peltier that’s the reality of it. I would think if you watch the video a few times, your eyes and ears will pick up on a few new things. It was carefully edited and narrated to help the viewer understand their marbles to the best of our ability. There simply isn’t an extensive sample size if Kokomos sitting around to study like the other more common companies. Thanks for watching and commenting
@@stephenbahrmarbles I'm not so much talking about one manufacturer or the other, as the general terms that apply to all. Such as:
What makes an Ox Blood and Ox Blood, vs just red?
What is an Ox Hair?
What makes a Patch a Patch?
A Slag?
Some of these I have an idea about, but not a solid one. Really, I'm looking for more foundational information that most of the websites or books are poor in passing. Most have blurry, low resolution pictures taken a decade or more ago, and only vaguely explain.
Ok Jeff thanks for the explanation. I could do a “basics” marble collecting video covering terms and nomenclature to help clear up those foundational issues some people may also have. Reading the books , checking out the marbles websites and casually watching these videos will help sharpen your identification skills. I can prepare something at some point in the future.
Nice collection. Were these distributed nationally or just in the Indiana area? Are these marbles made by the same glass company that is still in business, making opalescent glass? (KOG)
I’m not sure how far and wide these were distributed but I really don’t think they got that far. There are only a handful of packaged examples in collections, we will show those in part 2 . Yes that’s KOG ! Still in operation today
@@stephenbahrmarbles just wondered, because their stained glass sheets were distributed all around the world.
Stephen, are you able and willing to judge marbles? I think it is impossible for me as a European to know the difference between factories. I think i have marbles of every U.S maker? I have so many questions. For instance, i have green opaque marbles but under light they are transparant, are they those "imperial jade" from Christensen? Or did Vacor make them too? I have a lot of uranium glass/glow ones, were they only made in the U.S or also by vacor? And i have some textbook Turkeys, are they specific for a factory or also made by Vacor or European factories?
Hi Michel, pretty much every company had glass that will react to UV light , I’m not sure if I understand your opaque to translucent marble description. Some transparent marbles can look opaque, untill you backlight them hard with bright light. There are occasionally some swirl marbles that can accidentally show a turkey pattern that can look like Christensen, including Vacor. And yep some Vacors will glow. There’s plenty of exceptions to the rules with identifying particular traits to marbles and many are not 100% identifiable. Many used the same raw materials and similar machines. The more time you spend studying them, the more you will understand, there’s a lot of layers to the hobby . I hope that helps ! 🔵
It's me again.i have another request please.i saw some marbles and passed on them I feel like they were worth way more than the asking price.they wer picanninng freeze marbles any idea what they worth still in packaging and can you do a video what factory those and the sambos came out of please.thanks your fellow mibster.
Hi Scanner , the Sambos marbles are JABOS and are relatively modern, they don’t hold any collectable value.I’m not sure what pre canning marbles are .
I have a large brown and white that glows orange one red and yellow another turquoise with Colbt blue red an mustard
How do I no if it's one of theses?? Thanks
I can’t tell for sure based on your description. You can send photos to Sbahr@scarletknights.com and I would be happy to take a look for you.
Is there one certain thing that would tell you for sure you may be looking at a Kokomo?
Not exactly, most Kokomos are difficult to seperate from Peltiers. The content in my two Kokomo videos are to help you learn to spot certain ones that are recognizable as Kokomo. Based on patterns and glass color and structure.
@@stephenbahrmarbles thank you. I had recently got someone’s collection and I knew nothing about, not even the person. I’m researching and watching videos thinking it’s one and the next video they’re similar. My first thought when saw this was they were obvious marbles that were never sold with different shapes and sizes. The colors was just not right. I have some with the transparent colors, green aqua, clear, royal blue, even some almost beige with the side of the marble with different color poles. I even have a few pieces of just the transparent color. There’s several of just the cat eye marbles and rainbow patterns but they must be the same maker because the glass appears to be the same with imperfections. I am completely new to this and don’t want to sound totally crazy.
No worries! Take your time and enjoy the learning process. Keep watching the videos, there’s plenty of layers to the hobby with several marble companies to explore. Some marbles cannot be 100% foolproof identified (like coins for example). Enjoy! I can answer questions when I get a chance ✅
Kokomo stainies at 12:30?? 🤯
*becomes disoriented
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I live in Kokomo. What is this lol
It’s down the road from you them. Kokomo Opalescent Glass Factory
Thank God you have those cases. You wouldn't want to, ya know, lose your marbles yuck yuck chuckle
Had no idea about these. I'm from and live now in the UK but I spent the whole of the 90s in Indiana, my second home . Dang , missed a good opportunity
Hey Hoosier ! Yea they’re pretty unusual and obscure marbles. 🔵 The factory is still open and makes glass products.
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lol dang Skippy. . I'll have to order some or send my cousin over to pick some up 👍👍