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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???

Need the size…

I remember Bert getting a few at the Sistersville show in 2008. He had tears in his eyes… I didn’t understand the importance at the time.

History!!!

To say you are on a roll is an understatement🤣

X2x2🙃🙃🙃

Sanity reigns👍

Alley X3 Nice one!

We have a local store with a local history section. Large fire in 1870 or so, with the recovered items. 3 marbles, one Bennington and 2 Pelt Rainbos. this is how histories get warped. Now, trying to correct the dating gets you kicked out of the store🤣🤣🤣 Upton Sinclair quote” It is hard to teach a person something when their salary depends on them not knowing it.” truer words were never spoken!

Thanks for the sanity check Steph!!

I get Vitro on the first and last. No comment on the 2nd mib.(I was going to say slingshot ammo, but my wife is trying to make me a better person🤣🤣🤣🤣)

He was unique. Taught himself to play the piano and accordion while in a TB sanatorium. Also learned Russian, translating many Russian geology books into English. he played the piano at concert level but refused to play if anyone was listening. I had to hide outside to hear him play.

His other favorite saying was when someone said “well…” his response was “deep thinking for such a shallow mind”

This came from my ex- father-in-law, who I deeply loved. Much more than his psycho daughter. ( My first ex) he was a professor of geology, hired by my grandfather in 1948. My favorite saying of his was the 5 stages of a fart: A fizz A fuzz A fizzy-fuzz A fart And a tear-ass rattler. you all know what he was talking about.🤣🤣🤣

Who made it? And who made the table?

Mine is this… Only 12 were made. 1935.