January
9th 2010
1. The day of the Indy show had arrived and I looked
outside to
a bunch of snow…
So I did what any good father would do and handed his daughter a snow
shovel. My son tried to take my position as an observer but as you can
see in the next picture my daughter got him lined out.
that it was mistake; there was only one of each at the show. Bill O. is a
nice
enough fellow but I don’t think the world is ready
for two Griffs.
5. A lot of people braved the bad weather to make it to the show, Rick and
his son
Jake (not pictured) made it.
6.
The Splattman! Rhonda must have called and reminded him.
7.
It was a pleasure to meet Kevin and his daughter Kenzie.
8. Chris J. A great guy who has the best hand made collection I’ve ever
seen.
9. Diane B. gave my kids a couple of animatronic puppies, you push a button
and they roll around and play Christmas tunes. I asked our Pomeranian
why he couldn’t do that, he just looked at me like I was stupid (so did my
wife).
10. Diane entertaining kids, when we go to a show my kids always ask if Diane
is going to be there. A wonderful person, thanks Diane. PS, Diane after
the kids went to bed me and Karen played with the
puppiesJ.
11. Mike A. manning the Id/Appraisal table.
12. Kim W. keeping an eye on things while Mike is out wondering around. I
wasn’t able to get a picture of Beth the club President, she unfortunately
wasn’t able to be at the show but she left it in very capable hands with
Mike
and Kim.
13. Griff, me and Ron Shepard. I’m smiling because I’m at the marble show,
Ron’s smiling because he’s a happy guy and Griff is smiling because he just
lifted
my wallet.
14. Griff
counting my loot.
15. Ron,
Kokoken and Steve S.
16. The
light outside of my favorite marble room.
17. Chuck B. answering questions for a collector. Chuck has the most
spectacular Vitros that you will see at a show.
18. Some
of Chucks marbles.
19. The marble that I circled was a killer parrot, I should have taken more
pictures
of it.
20. Some
more nice Vitro’s.
21. George S. a really nice marble man.
22. Some really cool Vacor’s, Michelangelo’s. Vacor does make some pretty
marbles.
23. Some
more of George’s marbles.
24. And
some more.
25. Elizabeth and Steve, Steve loaned me several really cool marbles to take
pictures of for my site. Included were some 1991 Jabo’s , these were
some of
the very first classics made. Thanks
Steve.
26. Some other interesting things that Steve brought to the show, here is the
shear
from a 1932 Vitro machine.
27. Here
is a cup and shear from a modern Jabo machine.
28. The cup is stationary on the marble machine and the shear sits in a water
cooled platform that moves back and forth and cuts off chunks of glass as
it flows
into the cup. Very neat stuff.
29. Ron
Yutzy…
30. And
some of his collection, I thought the remelts were interesting.
31. I
really like clambroths.
32. Some
John Hamon Miller contemporaries.
33. Lonnie Conyers, he usually hangs out with this guy Bud (whom I failed to
get a picture of), a couple of real marble nuts. I had talked to Bud he
told me that it had really been a great show for him and that he wished it
would
last a couple more days.
34. Some
of Bud’s marbles (I think).
35. Some of Lonnie’s marbles, the Vitro, 3rd row down, 3rd from the left is a
really neat marble. If I hadn’t been robbed by an unnamed party earlier
it would
be in my collection.
36. Some
nice Popeyes.
37. Jim Gaudin. Nice meeting you Jim, look forward to seeing you at future
shows.
38. Jim had some nice marbles as well as this killer paperweight that he
brought
to the show.
39. Some
of Jims Mibs.
40. And
here is a few more.
41. Bill
Bass, Bill always brings some killers to the shows.
42. Here
are a few of Bills marbles.
43. And
here are a few more.
44. I usually take more pictures of Bill’s marbles but for some reason this time
I didn’t. So to fill out this group I’ve inserted a picture of a bald guy with
some
Christmas puppies per my son’s request.
