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https://www.ebay.com/itm/204260538789?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=hksexnkwt_2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bXaTUpW8TnK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Thanks buddy. Seller has 300lbs of various mibs. Most likely all Vacor. It would be fun but I got too much going on.

We got a number or art pieces from my wife’s ex-MIL estate. This was after the estate sale, which we didn’t attend. The pieces were not sold in the sale, so the cost was minimal. this piece we had listed in 2 shows for $20 and no takers. oops… it is now on display in the house. https://www.ebay.com/itm/155526647069?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=sEYNu9wCQtq&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bXaTUpW8TnK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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.