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Marble # 32 Ballet Ballet is on a tan base and has multiple ribbons of mahogany oxblood and green aventurine. Ballet was named by Edna Eaton Marble # 33 Salsa Salsa is on a transparent base with a white and yellow floater that comes to the surface and forms ribbons. There are also ribbons of green aventurine and mahogany oxblood. It was named by Edna Eaton

The Last Dance Tribute run took place on December 16, 2008. The marble run is dedicated to the superb art of David McCullough, former member of the US Army Special Forces and to the memory of Colonel John Woolschlagger, US Army Special Forces; and all the brave men of the US Military Special Operations Forces. Some of the marbles are named for men who served in Special Forces, two are named for team members' moms, and the rest are named appropriately for dances. We are the Last Dance of 2008, the last of the experimental runs. Marble # 1 The Colonel The Colonel is on a tan base with green aventurine ribbons and bright red oxblood ribbons. The marble is named for Colonel John Woolschlagger who was a member of the US Army Special Forces. The marble was named by Steve Sturtz. Marble # 2 Irish Lilt This marble is on a transparent and gray base with ribbons of bright green mica and dark mahogany oxblood. ribbons. The marble is named for a dance and was named by Edna Eaton Marble # 3 Hardcore Hardcore is on a tan base with green aventurine ribbons and purple oxblood ribbons. Hardcore is named for David McCullough, former US Army Special Forces, Viet Nam. The marble was named by Steve Sturtz. Marble # 4 Dolly This marble is on a transparent base with a yellow floater ribbon inside, and on the surface are ribbons of green aventurine, oxblood, and a pale blue ribbon with an oxblood ribbon on top of it. The marble is named for Peggy Durham, the mom of Debbie Amburn, one of our team members. Debbie's mom was a doll collector. We lost Peggy in 2008. This marble is named by Steve Sturtz. This Dolly pic borrowed from Kevin Roberts Marble # 5 Electric Slide This marble has an orange base, a light blue aventurine ribbon, a dark blue aventurine ribbon, a gray ribbon, and an oxblood ribbon that can be red or purple. This is the first dance marble named and Kevin Roberts named it. Electric Slide pic borrowed from Kevin: Marble # 6 Lone Wolf This marble is on a tan base with ribbons of oxblood, 3 colors of brown, and blue aventurine. The marble is named for Philip G. Arthur, former member of US Army Special Forces. It was named by Edna Eaton. Marble # 7 Bull This marble is on a gray blue base with flames of dark and bright oxblood, yellow, and blue aventurine. It was named for Colonel Bull Simon, founder of Delta Force, leader of a group that rescued Ross Perot's kidnapped employees. The marble was named by Philip G. Arthur. Marble # 8 Blue Tango This marble is multicolored, hard to distinguish which of the colors is the base color. There are 3 shades of orange ribbons, oxblood ribbons, blue aventurine ribbons, and tan ribbons. There are blue tangos with blue aventurine sparkling and some with blue av. and gold stone, heavy enough to see in the pics. In some of the marbles the oxblood ribbon appears to be pink and purple. This is a dance marble named by Edna Eaton Marble # 9 Waltz This marble is on a transparent base with floater ribbons of white and blue, surface ribbons of white and mahogany oxblood. Aventurine sparkles are in the blue ribbons and on the ox ribbons. The marble was named for a dance by Edna Eaton. It reminded her of "The Blue Danube Waltz". Marble # 10 The Twist The Twist is on a transparent base with a floater white ribbon inside. On the surface are ribbons of green mica, red oxblood, orange, and mahogany oxblood. The marble is named for a dance and got its name from a collaboration of Steve Sturtz and Edna Eaton. Marble # 11 Samba Samba is on a transparent base with floater ribbons of white and orange. On the surface are ribbons of yellow, bright red oxblood, blue aventurine, some have green aventurine and mahogany oxblood. Some have goldstone. The marble was named by Edna Eaton Marble # 12 Hip Hop Hip Hop is on a transparent amber base. It has floater ribbons of white and yellow. The ribbons on the surface are yellow, white, green aventurine, and oxblood. The marble was named by Edna Eaton. It is very similar to the marble named Dolly. The major difference is the color of the base glass with Dolly being crystal clear and Hip Hop being amber. Hip Hop is a darker marble than Dolly. Marble # 13 Line Dance Line Dance is on a transparent base with a white floater insdide and lines on the surface formed by ribbons of olive green aventurine, yellow, and oxblood. The marble was named by Edna Eaton for a type of dance Marble # 14 From the "golden age", The Charleston The Charleston marble is on a clear transparent base with a yellow floater twisting around inside and coming to the surface to form ribbons. There are also ribbons of white, pale blue, and oxblood, and either green mica or blue aventurine. The marble was named by Edna Eaton. Marble # 15 Gold Charleston Gold Charleston is basically the same marble as "The Charleston". It is on a clear transparent base with a yellow floater twisting inside and forming ribbons on the surface. There are ribbons of oxblood, white, and either blue aventurine or green mica. The differences in the two marbles are GOLD CHARLESTON HAS MORE INTENSE COLOR AND IT HAS GOLDSTONE. The marble was named by Edna Eaton. Marble # 16 The Pony The Pony looks slightly pearlized and has 3 shades of blue in the base and sometimes a pale yellow in the base. It has oxblood ribbons. Stephanie Harrison named this dance marble. The Pony Marble # 17 Calypso Calypso is on a gray base with ribbons of black, pale blue aventurine. oxblood which ranges from bright red to dark red, and some yellow ribbons. Some also have orange ribbons. Calypso was named by Stephanie Harrison. Marble # 17 Calypso Marble # 18 turned out to be a second jar of another marble so I have removed it. Marble # 19 Rhumba Rhumba is a tan based marbles with many ribbons of brown, red oxblood, orange, mahogany oxblood, and blue aventurine. Marble # 21 Cottoneyed Joe Cottoneyed Joe is on a tan base with brown ribbons, oxblood ribbons, blue aventurine ribbons, and some golden brown ribbons. Some ribbons look almost black. The marble was named by Edna Eaton. Marble # 22 Foxtrot Foxtrot is tan based with ribbons of blue aventurine, oxblood, and dark brown. Foxtrot was named by Stephanie Harrison and Edna Eaton. There is a lutz version of this marble called Golden Foxtrot. I'll post a pic later next week. Marble # 23 Boney Maroney Boney Maroney is tan based with ribbons of golden brown, black, brown, oxblood, and thin ribbons of blue aventurine. Marble #24 Watusi Watusi is tan based with dark ribbons that appear black. Looking with a strong light, they are really blue aventurine with threads of oxblood and a dark brown on top of the blue. there are red oxblood threads running the the tan base. The name of the Watusi was a collaborate effort of Stephanie Harrison and Edna Eaton. . Marble # 25 The Stroll The Stroll is on a transparent base with a white floater and outside ribbons of black aventurine, and oxblood Marble # 26 The Shimmy The Shimmy is on a transparent base which looks cloudy, almost opalescent, (it may be) with a white floater, thin green mica, and oxblood ribbons It is similar to # 38 Jitterbug. It was named by Stephanie Harrison Marble # 27 Bossa Nova Bossa Nova is on a opaque blue base with swirls of oxblood, darker blue ribbons and has a pearlized look. This marble was named by Stephanie Harrison. Marble # 28 has been eliminated. Steph's question caused me to take a look again and Marble #22 and # 28 are the same marble. Marble # 23 repeated, better pic Boney Maroney Boney Maroney is on an opaque tan base, with ribbons of red oxblood, golden brown, blue aventurine, and dark brown. Marble # 30 Mexican Hat Dance The Mexican Hat Dance is on a clear base with floaters of orange and white, surface ribbons of green aventurine and mahogany oxblood. The Mexican Hat Dance was named by Stephanie Harrison.

Mary, it has taken me what seems like ages to sort the Last Dance. I'm not through because as i sorted I threw the goldstone all together into one big tray. Wish I hadn't done that because now I'll have to sort through them again. But I'm not in a hurry to do that. I'm going to start putting mail outs together tomorrow. Probably take me a week to get all that done. Edna

She's getting some Tributes. I've almost finished doing pics and descriptions and mail outs are next. Edna

Congratulations on your retirement, David. Hope you have a great time! I know you will have less stress and you'll be able to go anywhere any time you decide to. Weldon and I may run into you on vacation again - only God knows where. LOL! We are very happy for you. Thanks for all the great times. Edna and Weldon

Add me in to the folks wishing you a Great Birthday! Edna

Steph, you are amazing! Edna

Sent: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 1:30 pm Subject: JABO 2008 EXPERIMENTALS Ant Just so you have the story right on the 2008 experimentals I felt that you should have the first post . Joanne Argabrite, Steve Sturts and muself ( Dave McCullough) had a meeting concerning Mike Johnson and Steve Sturtz book on Jabo in late 2007. Jabo had already decided that due to the economics of producing Classics that the Co. would not be making any in 2008. Mr Strutz mentioned the possibilty of time sharing the machines with investors putting up the cost of runs. This was the beginning of the 2008 experimental runs. The rest is documented history now with the last experimental run being done, as agreed to earlier in the year, with the group of investors that has been mentioned. I hope all have had some joy out of being a part of Marble History and once Jabo has a chance to decide the future of the Classics I will let you know. At this time there will be no more contract runs. Jabo is in the process of looking into a 24hr. run of each 5/8" 3/4" and 1" Classics for 2009 and would hope to sell them from the Co. through a group of sales persons who had invested in the 2008 experimentals. Hope this might help to understand the process Jabo has been going through. I would like to thank ALL the investors for the great times I have had in producing these runs and Hope that all has some good memories. Thank You Dave

It will be interesting to see wvron's answers to the above. He and Dave McCullough may be the only ones who can. Edna

I think it's an Arizona

Can't be sure, but it sounds like "Arizona". I think you'll know when your box arrives. Does the teal part have aventurine in it? Edna

Some of my group of investors are not happy with me for my remark that the Joker's are still the prettiest marbles of the private runs. It's just my opinion, but they have eye appeal. Now if we are talking about numbers of colors, the Tributes have all of them beaten. Some of our marbles have 6 or seven colors and all of them have 4. I hope that makes up for my previous remark. Edna

Hi Gary! This is the outer lid to your box. This is the inner side of the lid. JABO Tributes is hidden in the shadow of the side of the box. It's right above Sept. 19, 2008. I should get it in the mail tomorrow. Edna

Took this pic of a group of Tributes today. I'm working on a pic for the box lid.

http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/2286 The link above is to more pics of the marbles and a report on the Sistersville Marble Festival. It took me most of the day to post the pics and write ups and I'm sorry I don't have time to do it again here. If you want to see more pics and more info follow the link. Edna

Hi Suzie! Sure wish we could find a hotel in Phoenix that marble collectors and dealers could afford to stay in. Bo's shows were really great until the hotels decided to up the room rent beyond a reasonable amount. We are thinking about coming in February for the Tucson bead show. A lot of the boro marble artists come to that. We didn't go last year but I'd like to go in 2009 if the gasoline prices don't go as crazy as the motels.

PM me Mike. I have some. Edna

Thank you Ron. The trip to all the West Virginia marble factories in Ritchie County was something all of us will remember and Weldon and I cherish the time spent with you. You gave a day to all of us and we learned a lot about the history of marble making in Ritchie Co. I don't know anybody in West Virginia who deserves the honor of having a marble named for them more than you do. I'm keeping a lot of wvron's for us too. Edna

Hi Mike, I will send you some of those. I'm still trying to catch up. Haven't sorted everything yet, still doing 2 weeks laundry. That's a job by itself. The grandson is coming tonight so I'll be delayed getting everything done. LOL. As you know GRANDCHILDREN ARE WONDERFUL! Did you go to Reno and watch the marbles being made? Yours are beautiful! I especially like the pink flamingo and the pink and green swirl. There's a coral and green that is no slouch too. Your buckeye marble looks a lot like our Black Ruby. That's the only marble I've seen so far that may be hard to identify which special run it comes from.

Yellowjacket This marble is on a canary yellow base and has ribbons of black, gray, and white. It was one of the first marbles to roll. More pics will be added of marbles that have not been named tomorrow.

Canary Blueblood This marble is on a canary yellow base glass. It has dark blue ribbons on one side with oxblood running usually on the dark blue and bordered by black ribbons on the other side.

McCullough This marble is named for David McCullough. David is of Scottish descent. The McCullough's did not have their own tartan, but were allied with 4 clans who did. The common colors in the 4 tartans were a dark red and a dark green. The McCullough is on a base glass of orange and coral colored glass. The dark green aventurine has dark red oxblood running around it. wvron This marble is named for Ron Shepard who founded the West Virginia Marble Collector's Club. He served as an officer in the club for many years. Ron is one of the few people who can identify West Virginia swirls. The marble is on a yellow base with orange blushing. It has thick dark green aventurine bordered with dark red oxblood that may appear black. Joseph's Gems This marble is named for the youngest marble lover in our family - our grandson. The marble base glass is a swirl of red and orange glass, It has wide ribbons of dark blue aventurine bordering red glass and there may be a thin line of red glass on the edges of the blue aventurine. The blue aventurine is very dark and because of the red glass may be dark like oxblood. Julie's Paints This marble is named for Julia Powell, a member of the WVMCC and Fenton glass artist. Julia paints all kinds of glass objects at Fenton and also paints on marbles for collectors. She has been painting on Sammy Hogue marbles for some time now. The back of the Julie's paints has pink, coral, and red glass. The blue aventurine ribbons are narrower in this marble and usually follow around a red "V"

The first marbles to roll out were canary yellow barrel of Julie's paints Unnamed marble - The base is canary yellow. The ribbons are light to medium blue with ribbons of oxblood that varies from red to reddish brown to black (burned oxblood). Barrel of wvron Black Ruby Back of the Black Ruby This marble is named for Ruby Sellers, WVMCC. She is the wife of Frank Sellers who is the grandson of the founder of Alley Agate. Ruby serves as an officer of the club and she and Frank were two of the people invited to JABO to preview the Tributes. The Black Ruby has red glass in two shades, black glass, and gray glass, and may also have an orange stripe. The colors swirl . Bloody Bee Back of the bloody bee The Bloody Bee has a base glass of canary yellow. It has some black lines and oxblood showing and may also have white or gray areas on the top side. Bonnie's Blush This marble is named for Bonnie McCullough, wife of David McCullough. The marble base glass is orange and yellow. It may have light blue aventurine or a mixture of light and dark blue aventurine. Oxblood is swirled on the blue aventurine and in the best examples is red and also appears purple where it runs over or under the blue aventurine.

On September 19, 2008 a new private run of Jabo's took place. People involved were all in agreement to let Dave McCullough make all the decisions and make the marbles he wanted to make. Everything Dave asked for was purchased, including aventurine. Those responsible for the marbles were: David McCullough, Vice President of Jabo and glass genius His crew working that day included: Richard McKnight Ron Ewers Russ Meaux Johnny Carr Dale Simmons The investors are: Steve Sturtz and Elizabeth Farrar Cathy Runyan Svacina and Larry Svacina Windy Turpin Edna and Weldon Eaton Marlow Peterson and Denis Andelin Ron Shapard and Bill McCaleb David Chamberlain Brett Chamberlain Lee Linne Jack Labbe Jim Storsberg Michael Johnson Patry Denton The first marbles rolled out at 11:15 AM and the last rolled out at 11:30 PM. I will post pics later in the report. The group of investors while large were great to work with. Everybody watched David and his crew and did what they could. At dinner time, cooking took place just outside the area where the marble machine was operating. We had invited guests from the West Virginia Marble Collectors Club to come and watch. I remember Howard Powell, Steve and Eleanor Pletcher, and Bob Byard were there for a while. More came to breakfast the next day to view the marbles. Julia and Howard Powell, Frank and Ruby Sellers, and several others came. I'm sure other people there will remember more names. I did not take a lot of pics. We had a professional photographer taking many pics (Denis Andelin) and Joe Street doing a video of the whole process. Here are the few I took. Dave McCullough and Richard McKnight The 3/4 inch marble machine Marlow Peterson, Lee Linne, Russ Meaux Bill McCaleb and Russ Meaux Russ Meaux and Dave McCullough Richard McKnight Steve Pletcher and Elizabeth Farrar Eleanor and Steve Pletcher, Elizabeth Farrar Dave McCullough and Steve Sturtz Boyce Lundstrom and Dave McCullough Weldon Eaton and Boyce Lundstrom Dale Simmons During the time in Reno and Sistersville, I had the opportunity to see and collect Joker I, Joker II, Madyia, Peltier Mansion, and the Tributes. It is my opinion that Joker I's are by far the prettiest marbles. They are all different and easily recognizable. Following are some pics of boxes of each except for Joker II's. I haven't completed a pic of them yet, but will post them later. Joker I Madyia's, First row has 5 of the marbles with lutz Second box of Madyia's Peltier Mansions by Boyce Lundstrom Boyce has some very nice effects with color and pattern. The second row of marbles from the top are white based with green aventurine and purple ribbons and Boyce calls them Purple Betties. Another of his marbles has pink ribbons. He got the pink color by using gold in his glass. Tributes to Dave McCullough and JABO More Tributes. We did not make any white based marbles. Close up pics of some named marbles will follow.

Very nice marbles, Charles. Edna