Ric

It's legit, and a no. 5 mib would be 15/16". Although, the No. 5 on this box probably just refers to the box style. The second box also appears to be a legit jobber box. Although, I believe some of these were filled many years after the boxes themselves were made.

This is very sad news, indeed. Chuck was a great guy, incredibly knowledgable and always willing to share. I will never forget laying on the floor of his room with him at about 1:00 AM going through a huge cache of Ravenswods he had acquired, I don't even remember which show it was, we were much younger, no doubt, but I remember the fun we had together like it was yesterday. I also, remember being very thankful he was married to Dianne, who put up with such shenanigans on a pretty regular basis. I know Chuck was thankful for her too. RIP my friend. You will be missed.

I can share this pic, it's one of the best I've seen (posted by Craig)

Welcome aboard, that's a nice collection and exceptional photography too!

The Pokeball marble storage is pretty great. My son Jake was a huge Pokemon fan. He must not have known about these or we'd of had one, or more!

Well, that's a pretty one. Sort of a tough one. I'd like it to be Akro, but it looks mostly like an Imperial (foreign) to me. Although, you don't often see transparent in their opaque mibs like this one has - I like it!

Some Vitro hybrids certainly get that way!

I am sorry to hear it, Joep.

I had this box of marbles on my desk for the past 20 or so years. Students loved to poke through them when they came into my office, especially if they were embarrassed or being chided and didn't really want to look at me. I always kept a flashlight and UV light in my desk drawer too. Many students were interested to learn about the marbles, and about collecting them. They were always surprised that marble collecting was a thing. I would often tell classes a two-minute before-the-bell story about a recent marble show or acquisition, and I'd even show them pics. They always got a kick out of it - I think they were mostly amused by how excited I got about it. On a dozen or so occasions, they brought in old family marbles for me to look at and teach them a little about. In all that time, only one marble ever went missing, that I know of. It was an 11/16" Superman. A few days before I noticed it was gone, one of my colleague's young sons (~7 years old) was in visiting and playing with them, and I recalled that he had really taken a shine to that marble. About a month later when he was visiting again, he pulled that marble out of his pocket, fessed up and apologized for taking it. So I gave it to him as a reward for his honesty and courage. 🙂

Is the moisture damage/discoloration worse than you thought, Joep? Is that what you are referring to?

I think the only people that pronounce Vitro as vitt-row are people associated with the company and marblers.

That's a nice collection. What is that blue tray on the second shelf nestled into? Is it a WPA project?

Nice crop William, If those were within arms reach, I'd be eating them like apples - yummy!

A couple of team members have oxblood stripes. or at least as close to oxblood as Vitro ever made.

I'd say these belong here . . .

I added a bit to my response, so . . .

lol, no leg-pulling here. Akro did not make swirls, on purpose anyway, which is probably why these were buried. But being a swirl collector, they were interesting to me. Having said that, some of Akro's marbles are definitely swirly - think of some of the egg-yolks you've seen.

Dug Akro Swirls

I agree! There's lots of good stuff here. I'd say our first Thüringen Thursday was a great success!

I have no idea who made any of these. If you might, please let me know! I found them in a large collection I purchased many years ago. I don't think they are the best of examples, might be seconds or something?

Really nice marble, Allen, it's got so much depth it almost doesn't look round!

Nice marbles, and congratulations on the "Double A" find!