The Phantom Marble Factory?

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2 жыл бұрын

Here’s a short trip off the beaten path to an area near Clarksburg, West Virginia from a long time ago.
We discuss the possibility of an allegid machine-made marbles operation from the mid 1930’s called Flo-Blue. There isn’t much hard evidence here, but it’s worth taking a look at for a few minutes in the hopes of finding out more.
With marbles research we are finding out new things all of the time, you never know!
I hope you find this content intriguing…or at least mildly entertaining!
If you have any possible information about the Flo-Blue marbles factory , or any obscure West Virginia Swirls documentation : please email David‪@davidtamulevich8587‬.com 🔴 or post In the comments below .
We will post a follow up video If anything new comes to light.
Thank you for watching! there’s more content to come.
Special thanks to David Tamulavich and Pete Mc Millen.
Happy Marbling !

Пікірлер: 66

@powerlinekid4296 2 жыл бұрын

This is basically how I look at my entire marble collection... it's an unsolved mystery.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

😂 good one !

@loriherrmann3181 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephen. I’m new to collecting marbles and have watched your videos over and over. Still can’t seem to get the hang of those seams. This mystery factory only adds to the fun! Thanks again. Hope your flowers are doing well too!

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thank Lori ! The garden is looking great right now , the Lupines are putting on a show !

@IronChief 8 ай бұрын

@loriherrmann, I found it easier to focus on the colors first and then work out the seams.

@chadgartner5434 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this Stephen, so many mysteries yet to unfold !!

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chad ! 💯 to be continued…

@mariasaha8303 2 жыл бұрын

This was hilarious and informative! So great!

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Maria! I’m glad you took this little marbles “detour” with us and enjoyed it !

@oldscoolcooldiecast1879 11 ай бұрын

This is why I love marbles it’s all a puzzle 🧩 but only the pieces are way cooler then most 😂

@stephenbahrmarbles 11 ай бұрын

Hey Old School I scored you those Champion marbles ! Choice stuff from the Jack Hahn vault. Email me at sbahr@scarletknights.com 🔴

@angellabutler6449 2 жыл бұрын

I love a good mystery🧐😁🙋‍♀️

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

💯 Angella thanks for watching!

@RaiuAdami Жыл бұрын

I would love to see another, longer video looking deeper into this mystery

@stephenbahrmarbles Жыл бұрын

Hi tsu ! If we gather any new leads we will upload a new one for sure

@thearrowheadreapers8668 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a good mystery! Enjoyed the video 👍🏹

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed ! Maybe to be continued? I’m not sure

@KerryAndBerrys 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing adventure to explore the ways they eliminated the competition Some truly incredible parables and the backstory of them just made it even more powerful God Bless 😎😍✝️🙌

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you KerryandBerry! 🔴🌟

@leesadleridge 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video Stephen! Who knows, that handful of marbles he had could turn out to be priceless some day!

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jody . Yep we don’t know anything for sure, just putting it out there to see if something shakes out !

@joelmartinez6524 2 жыл бұрын

Very Interesting I started collecting about 1 1/2 years and it is now a full hobby for me. Thank You for sharing your knowledge on Marble identification.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Joel ! I’m glad you’re enjoying the hobby!

@johnwright3306 Жыл бұрын

I believe floor blue is the name given to the color or type of marble and they are probably champion

@stephenbahrmarbles Жыл бұрын

Yes John ✅ I have some 1980’s Champions that match right up to this group , including one that was bagged & labeled “Flo Blue” which was originally sold by Charlie Stutsman.

@markwilliams7558 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video. Probably Champion? That guy that was selling at the Champion factory always had a story. I believe his name was Louis.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Champion seems right unless something new comes to light. I wish I grew up in the area, it would have been cool to stop by a place like that !

@catt805 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Stephen, I have recently found your channel and really enjoyed all the info and history on marbles you have put out. Even finding private marble dealers on the western half of the country is difficult, it is amazing to see all the history and treasure digging where the origins were. Many thanks.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Time I’m Nature. I think there is an annual marbles show somewhere near your area. Attending that might help improve your chances of getting quality marbles at reasonable prices.

@catt805 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbahrmarbles I will keep my eye out, just looked at a calendar of events for national marble shows, looks like i missed the one close to me this year, but i bet it will return to that area next year. where i am in the western states gives me great access to semi precious stone and rockhounding, which drives my interest to stone made marbles like the agate my grandfather had made for me as a child when i played. still studying the lapidary tools needed.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool Time in Nature! I find those natural rock deposits and precious stone pretty fascinating

@emilyjane61 26 күн бұрын

I know nothing about marble makers (I just started), but I'd bet anything they're named after antique 'flow blue' china...looks just like it!

@stephenbahrmarbles 25 күн бұрын

Emily you are 100% correct on the nickname reference , well done !

@stardust949 2 жыл бұрын

This video is a parable for us all---in another 75 years, we'll all be phantoms nobody will believe ever existed! I live in Ohio and have only recently found out about what a hotbed of marbles making the Ohio River Valley as well as Akron were! I want to go on one of those digs like the one where the man filled a 5-gallon bucket with shovelfuls of vintage marbles. How do you sign on for something like that?

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Well said Star Dust ! 🌟 The title of this video has a question mark for a good reason. Were learning things bit by bit. Maybe something will come from this topic, maybe not . Who knows? For digs I suppose you have to be in the right place at the right time and know the right people. They had one up in Akron a few years back when the American Marble and Toy Company property was escavated . What property will be dug next ? I have no idea….

@iamgabriel5823 2 жыл бұрын

My first thought was that those marbles looked like a cross between Alley and Champion marbles, leaning heavily toward Champion. Thanks so much for the video. It was great.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t say for sure, but that sounds about right to me, thanks Iam !

@donaldmiller9648 2 жыл бұрын

Look like Champion Agates I have had in past....Pete was probably pulling Dave's leg....

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Who knows? Maybe David will chime in here with a response!

@davidtamulevich8587 2 жыл бұрын

Pete bought them....pulled them out of the storage building ( called The Pit) at Champion Agate. Someone there at Champion told his the story..which he relayed to me. Pete was very sincere, so I think he was being straight with me.

@chicagocyclist1 Жыл бұрын

I'm on board! Let's look elsewhere to support the premise....automobile manufacturers! There are widely varying numbers, but between several hundred to several thousand have been put as numbers! So why not all sorts of fortune hunters trying marble making out?

@stephenbahrmarbles Жыл бұрын

I agree !

@donnacopeland1382 7 ай бұрын

Interesting!!! Who really knows 😮

@stephenbahrmarbles 7 ай бұрын

Hi Donna and thanks for watching! I’m retrospect : I would be pretty sure these are 1980’s Champion Agates.

@donnacopeland1382 7 ай бұрын

@@stephenbahrmarbles you are probably correct you seem to know what you're doing.

@straightshooter3643 2 жыл бұрын

I had no idea that companies destroyed others for the elimination of their competitors! Were they Union companies that did this? Great video, very interesting

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

It only happened once that I know of Yes there was and still are glass unions. Many of the old marble companies had good relations, but their marble making secrets were kept exactly that.

@straightshooter3643 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbahrmarbles Very interesting. Thanks again for your time on these videos Mr. Bahr, always fun to learn and see more!

@stevenjohann5435 2 жыл бұрын

did he mean flo blue as in fluorescent blue glass, i have some beautiful blue swirls in which the blue lights up under UV, and i always assumed the blue was fenton glass used during that particular run.....just wondering....

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Steven , I don’t know. These were not said to be made from Fenton cullet.

@joevalencia8588 Жыл бұрын

I to have one that is Reactive 2UV ,& how do I share the photos of mine?

@realtimestrategy227 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting I love it, What are the two words under "only run by this factory" on that hand written note. Those are the only two words I can't read. Amazing looking marbles.

@davidtamulevich8587 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Pete was told these marble were made for 6 weeks in the Summer of 1935 in a small burb south and east of Clarksburg, WV. That was all he had been told when he bought them at Champion Agate.

@kclark8281 2 жыл бұрын

So interesting. Flo blue was made at the Wheeling pottery. Wonder if someone there has a clue??

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

Right, it was spelled “Flow Blue” though, I don’t think it has any correlation.

@kclark8281 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbahrmarbles ahh ok, I thought it was just a misspelling by the person who wrote on the box.

@cindymurphy457 18 күн бұрын

😊

@stephenbahrmarbles 18 күн бұрын

😁

@Travelling..Bottle..Digger 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍🍻⛏

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

💥

@AScottB 2 жыл бұрын

Makeshift marbles like moonshiners.

@stephenbahrmarbles 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@mattcorbitt252 23 күн бұрын

Didn’t Akro agate move to clarksburg from Akron Ohio?

@stephenbahrmarbles 23 күн бұрын

No, but some of Akros key people went there to start Master Marbles.

@beachbound101 Жыл бұрын

Hello everyone, I am new to the site & a big time marble enthusiast & collector. Has anyone went digging at this site and if so have they had any luck finding any marbles? Where exactly is this old factory site, does anyone have the exact address? Would love to visit and do some digging there. Is that allowed?

@stephenbahrmarbles Жыл бұрын

Hi Lori, Im sorry but haven’t gotten any further leads on the allegid company or location. Please ask permission when planning on digging, I have gotten a few complaints from marble property owners about people digging on thier sites. All of these sites are privately owned. Good luck ! 🔵