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Interesting, my first thought is Marble King.

I think we only used one die, which means you'd get your marbles out of start in about one of three rolls (statistically) but it would take longer to get around the board. With two die, and pairs, you'd only get out of start in around one in eighteen rolls. 🙂

I updated my answer, since I remembered how to play - I had to look at it a bit longer. Look above.

Nice board, Brad. I think it's called Aggravation. We had one when I was a kid, but I have no recall of how it's played. Nice drawers too! After looking at the game a while longer, it's sort of coming back to me. I think your 4 home color marbles are stored at the base of end of the arms (1-4 players). You roll a dice to get a 1 or a 6 to get out to the center start place on the track. You roll the die - go around the board, if you land on someone else's mib they go back home. your home is the center column of holes above your base after you've gone all the way around. It's like Sorry with marbles.

The red, white and blue ones are notoriously tricky. My best guess is Ravenswood for this one.

Neil, I am more inclined toward machine-made marbles but I always like to see a board full board of nice German hand-mades, and your display is one of the nicest I've seen quite a while. Thanks a lot for sharing it with us!

They're Great marbles, Alley West Virginians

I was just goofin' with you, Chad, but I do think the Wolverine marble is named for the U of M Team colors because I don't see anything blue or yellow here. By Zefram - Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5492528

You may have missed your chance . . . It could have been a Mountaineer! (Fentonacres marble from another post)

Actually, A Wolverine wears Blue and Gold and plays football for The University of Michigan! Go Blue!

Welcome, Niel! Those are some good looking marbles. It'd be great to see them on the board!

Dave makes some nice marbles, for sure. And the fact that he'll make them "to order" is a big plus too. I especially like the blue and red flames. Although the blue and yellows have"Wolverines" written all over them - Go Blue!

The game is actually really fun, Steph. Based on the wear marks on the game and box lid, I'm betting my reproduction "cue" is pretty close to the real deal. And the bank is just there for interest - I'm glad to see it worked. 🙂

I agree, Al. It would be great to have some more authoritative information about Marble King. As far as I know, Berry Pink was known as the Marble King long before he joined Sellers Peltier to found Marble King - the marble manufacturer.

I would say yes. The marble on the right might be called a "lazy" corkscrew - it just didn't develop as well as the one on the left, which is a mighty nice marble in my estimation!

This is my favorite marble game, Lambs in the Pit. It was released with an advertising blitz just in time for Independence Day, 1891. I have never seen another example. Here is a transcription of the label: LAMBS IN THE PIT GET 'EM OUT THE MOST FASCINATING GAME PUZZLE OUT DIRECTIONS: Hold the box level and by use of the cue ONLY, put the marbles up in the 4 corner pockets. PRICE, 10 CTS M. W. TAYLOR, Patentee 2706 N. Broad St, Philadelphia I added the marbles and the "cue", which were missing when I found it. It's way more challenging than it looks!

It looks Akro to me. And Alan makes a great point. Sometimes it's important to get real close up, if you're trying to show some fine internal structure or are being "artistic", perhaps. But I like the marbles that show on the screen to be more reasonably sized too - if it's more than a couple of times as big as it is in real life, it's just unnecessary, IMO, and it detracts from reality. And the great thing about digital images, is that you can enlarge them if you like. I try to take reasonably sized photos at a resolution that balances quality and file size (not every one has a fast or unlimited data connection). That way they can be enlarge a bit and still look good, if someone wants to see the marble 4X actual size. That's my 2 cents. 🙂 This is as small as I could make your photo without significant processing, and I think it looks better. Of course, that's just my opinion.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out. This old game looks new. It seems like the marbles would have been stored under that cardboard prior to sale. And if the cardboard has ever been removed, I am surprised someone took the time to put it back in place, since It doesn't really seem to serve any purpose. Have you ever had the cardboard out? Do you think the marbles might still be in there? It's a very cool game. I did some poking around and saw a few other pics of the game online - none of them had the cardboard in place, at least where I could tell.

How about a feathered patch?

I'll bet kids would have wanted shoelaces that were associated with marbles!

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I'd say so. You're starting to get good at this!

Nice, I have never seen one like it. It looks to be in excellent condition. Is there anything on the back? Just to be sure, I am referring to the second board you posted - surely, it's metal of some sort - any markings on it?

Nice Hop Ching Board (by Pressman). I have one, but I haven't seen many with the box. Do you know who made the tin one?

Do you think these were from when Berry Pink (The Marble King) was still jobbering marbles and not actually producing any of his own? Two-sided Ohio Arts Tin Litho Checkers Board (with marbles and wooden checkers - made in Japan - found in it). I have heard the marbles referred to as "Mt. Fujis".