schmoozer

I’m with ya on that. The wife facebooks and shows me marble listings. I gave it up a few years back, too much of a time-sucker for me.

I want to see the one in the upper right, a AKRO sparkler?

Is it a blown piece?

Can we get more pics please?

You seem to be on the right track! Keep it going!

Would love to see them!

In 2008 I bought a sea green dalle from Blenko and gave it to Joe Schlemmer (Madman Marbles) and asked him to make me a marble from it. One of my prized possessions.

My favorite JT song… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_77eQsFPm8

Reality is lost…😢

My other go to is renaissance, 1001 nights, 2 albums.

So did I, I love their old paperweights. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175699973303?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jrKKOsYfQdu&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bXaTUpW8TnK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

That and crime of the century albums…

My favorite version of Simon and Garfunkel “sound of Silence”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4 Almost 900 million views🤯

Been on a Supertramp binge this last week. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YLP0y-X4uYs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_g_IZASPM

Alice In Chains???🙃

Thanks Rick! the “black” cats are dark-dark purple.

So, I had to buy this Chinese checker set, haven’t seen one before. 3-cane cats eye marbles, unused condition. no barcode, so pre 1974.

Not a darn thing today, too many chores. Tomorrow however, we are going out antiquing😬. Hopefully for a score of some kind. Earlier this week I scored an old apothecary jar, it’s begging for my non-mint slags.

The other thing we did was take a bicycle spoke and reverse the nut to create a chamber. We would cram some caps in it, along with shot from a shotgun shell. Hold it over a lit candle, and bang! My brother blew a hole thru his bedroom door… these are things I never told my kids😬

The size makes it a parakeet. Parrots are typically 7/8” or so. nice score!

Grew up in the late 50’s-and 60’s. Marbles were a fun schoolyard game. Unfortunately they were better slingshot ammo. I did shoot my older brother in the butt one day with a wristrocket, paid for that one dearly. we also used to take an old steel sprinkler head ( before pop-up heads) with steel 4” nipple, load a firecracker in where the fuse came out the nozzle. Load in a marble, light the fuse, and wham! Used a cottonwood tree as a target, so it was soft enough for the marble to imbed in it. didn’t start collecting until I got some Vacor meteors from my MIL when she passed in 1998 or so.

Did you pull the trigger?

Then there is this… a Marbles 1908 22/410 over/under.

Need to see if it has a bale or not. Bales were added around 1933 if I remember right. These are early 1900’s. Solid pins. here are some rare “marbles”🤣🤣

Knuckle down? Would you ever use one of these mibs in a competition???