BMCC
Winter Show 02-13-2010
This is a
pretty long report; it was a dynamite show with lots of sellers and lots of
buyers. I’ve tried to include as much as I could but it could have easily been
twice as long.
1.
The 5 and ½ hour drive to the show looked pretty much like this.
Consistently white. But
anytime you are going to a marble show it’s always a pleasant drive.
2.
I arrived at the show on Friday and was able to get in on some of the
room trading of which I failed to take any good pictures of, so I’ve placed this
nice BMCC graphic (which I pirated from their Site) in here to fill up the space
for this series of pictures.
3.
Steve “Smitty” Smith.
Successful events never just happen.
They are always a product of someone’s hard work, and effort.
Smitty was the hard work and effort behind the scenes that brought about
what I think was one of the most incredible marble shows I’ve ever attended.
Thank you Smitty and congrats on a great job!
4.
Brian Estepp had an interesting day.
A collector that had been at the show had left to catch his flight home,
when he got to the airport he realized that he had accidentally picked up
someone’s keys at the show. He
called Brian and asked him to make an announcement to see whose keys he had.
While Brian was making the announcement the gentleman at the airport was
describing the keys to him, at this point Brian realized Oh (fill in
expletive!!!), the man was describing his keys. He had to send a courier to
5.
Items that Brian had on display, some vintage handmades and some of Brian
Graham’s contemporary oxbloods.
6.
Some more of Brian’s marbles.
7.
And some more.
8.
And a Morphy’s auction booklet.
Not for sure why I took this picture, if you’re not familiar with
Morphy’s they have some nice marble auctions.
9.
Bill Bass. Bill always has a
super display of marbles that he brings to the show.
10.
Some of Bill’s Boxes.
11. Some handmades.
12.
And some more handmades, some of these marbles are huge!
13.
Mike Coyle; Mike was sporting a new head
mounted optical device that looked suspiciously like the one owned by George
Sourlis. Mike claims that it is
really his but I intend to give George a call to see if his is missing.
14.
Dave McCullough and Chris J.
15.
Bruce (Triker) hanging out at the marble show.
16.
Ron Shepherd chatting with Dave.
17.
Ron Yutzy from
18.
As did Lonnie Conyers.
19. Bo Stiff came in from
20.
Lee Linne traveled from
21. Jim
O’Connell.
22.
Jim had a killer handmade china, if anyone needs a bigger picture let me
know and I’ll e-mail it to you.
23.
Tom Rudolph had an over the top handmade.
25.
Griff made it…
26.
Along with some marbles. The
pumpkin marbles were made by Nadine.
Griff had given my kids a couple of them at the
27.
Griff had a
28.
Then he showed me it real purpose.
It’s a marble case; I could see a nice Peltier “Baseball” collection
being housed in this unique case.
29.
Galen Wilcox traveled all the way from the West Coast.
30.
Here is some of his Vacor collection.
31.
Some more.
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And even more (Vacors one and all).
Nice marbles Galen
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33.
Jeff, AKA Columbusrockhound.
34.
Jeff made up these super Jabo Boxes, note the date on the box, 2-8-10, he
must have been hustling to get them done in time for the show.
35.
Ed Parsons.
36.
And some Jabo boxes the he brought to the show.
37.
Kris Parke from
38. And
some of his fine handmade contemporaries.
39.
Brett Young of Hot House Glass.
41.
Julia Powel. Julia’s hand
painted marbles are awesome!!! The
paint that she uses is mixed with fine glass and is kiln fired so that it won’t
wear off.
42.
Some of Julia’s marbles.
43. Some
more
44. And one
last shot.
45.
Tom Rink of Greene House Art Glass.
46.
Some cool kaleidoscopes’ that Tom makes.
47. I tried to take a picture of the
view inside of the kaleidoscopes’.
48. Another look through one of his
scopes.
49.
Mark Thompson from Washington, this fellow is a real hoot
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50.
A better view of some of Mark’s marbles.
51. Bob & Brandon Byard, Bob also
has some great auctions on eBay under the name of vintagemarbles.
52. Some Akro Glass that Bob
brought.
53.
Eddies Seese…
54.
And some of his fantastic marbles.
55.
Craig C. also known as BuckEyeDr
57.
Joe and Sammy Hogue, Sammy told me that “Joe was the one with the money
but he was the one with the good looks”.
As fine a gentleman as you would want to meet.
58.
A nice crowd of marblers.
59.
Joe Wilkinson. The following
is an account of how Joe W. (almost) lost his marbles.
As the showing was nearing its end Joe asked me to keep an eye on his
table so that he could walk around and see what everyone had before they packed
it in. While he was out looking
around the gentleman to the left of him started packing his stuff up.
Joe had two bubble packs of marbles that were sitting near the fellows
stuff who inadvertently picked them up and packed them away.
When Joe got back he looked at his stuff and said “have you seen my
bubble packs?” I thought that he was
messing with me and I told him no and kind of smiled as if to say “nice try but
I ain’t falling for it”. Then he
looked at me and I could tell by the look on his face that he wasn’t kidding
around and he said “are you messing with me?”
At that point everyone standing close started franticly looking around
for two bubble packs of marble. The
only problem was there wasn’t anywhere to look, I was for sure no one had picked
anything up from his table but since I had accepted responsibility for watching
his table I was starting to panic. I
kind of just stood there like the proverbial deer in the headlights.
At that point the man in the red cap discovered the bubble packs in his
stuff and everyone sighed with relief (I wanted to hug the fellow as I had been
standing there thinking that a couple of years of my marble allowance had just
been spent.) I think that I may have actually did a jig I was so relieved
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60.
Joe’s (almost) lost marbles.
61.
What better way to end a day than going to the Winking Lizard for a bite
to eat?
62.
Carl & Chris J.
63.
Galen Wilcox., giving me the stink eye.
Something to do with me calling his marbles Vacors.
64.
Smitty.
65.
“Winky” The Winking Lizard.
66.
Check out Winkys digs. Trees,
television all the free hors d’oeuvres he can eat, that lizards living large.
If you made
it to the end thank you for looking, Joe S.
I don’t
want to get anyone confused with the ID of Galen Wilcox’s marble.
The marbles are obviously not Vacors, I was just pulling Galen’s leg.
They are really some extremely nice foreign made Imperials, probably the
nicest group of them that I’ve ever seen.