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2535 Is soooo super sweet! Wow! Nice job Micheal!!

Do they have the little gold shamrock on each one or just a sig? Not sure if this is the same person who made the ones with the shamrock on them or not, but a gold shamrock is a way cool sig imho.

Carpet ball? or maybe crochet? I just can't make out the size.

Hope you don't mind, being a fellow graphics dabbler I uploaded the link to my facebook page. Hopefully I can get some more people to vote! I don't watch racing, but if this car was whipping around the track, I just may have to tune in! Good Luck!

lol Thanks Steve, you know why I got into collecting. Seems these were done three days after he passed.

Just looking for more information on this run, and how many were made. What are the chances of getting my hands on some? thanks

He brought a box full of his marbles to the Tribute Friendship run and allowed some of us to pick some out that we liked. Out of the handful I got, three of them have lutz. Two in the same tone and pattern that most Jabo lutz marbles show. But one has something different. It appears on the surface and it's more metallic than the lutz stone I have seen them use since. It is almost like a piece of a golden ring on the marble, has the same shine, color and look of metallic gold. Now I'm wondering if this was something else that was added to try because the lutz was burning up, or just an accidental occurrence that looks great!

That's a cool looking Cat! And a marble enthusiast? Awesome! lol

What is the scoop on this run as it pertains to the use of lutz and or metallics in the glass? Was lutz rod pushed? or used through a crucible? Also, where there any other uses of metallics during this run, perticularly gold and shiny, but it appears on the surface much broader than a hairline lutz typical of some runs, and it's not like regular lutz. Not alike because it's much more metallic, than crystal like. Anyone have the scoop on this one? Thanks in advance! P.S. Favorite from this run by far is the crazy cyclones! I just love looking into the mibs!

I got out just before the big flood. God has a way of working things out. I drove back and forth to base from Sparks for nine months, and my OIC gave me crap almost everyday. I was never late, even by one minute or he would have hung me publicly. Since Base housing was in Coleville, they had to drive up the canyon every morning, it was an important piece of road. After the flood, they had to drive all the way around the range and come back up through Bridgeport. Which by happenstance, is a two hour drive, instead of the half hour they all enjoyed before the flood, *while I was driving two hours from Stead. If you take 395 into Nevada, just past Topaz lake going North, take the first road to the East and follow it. You'll see another branch of the Walker river that was just full of trout. It was my first pic when I would go out and I always limited in the smalls and the little rapids there. I also swam across it many times and picked the lures from the unlucky off the branches on the other side. It's a good spot, anywhere along there, if your looking for a place. Not sure what the flood did to that area, but most of the spillage probably washed out Walker and Coleville, this part should be still viable. Good luck, and again nice pick up with the mibs.

Griff, I have a pound or so of raw copper from the piles at the copper mine in the upper pennisula of Michigan. I wonder what we could do with it?

Great Score Ally Op! I drove through Carson City one day back in 94 and there was a small gathering of marble collectors on a lawn downtown. I have logged many hours driving up and down highway 395 into Nevada and California almost everyday for three years while stationed at the Marine Base in Bridgeport Ca, just on the Sonora Pass at Pickle Meadows. Great Find! I only wish I had been into marbles back then as much as I am today, but being in the service there were just too many things to take my time away from the things I love. Awesome score! And just fyi, the walker river there on highway 108 is a superb trout stream!

It could fly, I do have a box of repro comic mibs done by Bennet, which is labled as such, but they are nifty none the less. Not to mention much easier on the wallet!

Congrats Bill! What a wonderful addition to the marble community he will be!

Ah the joys and tricks of marketing! In the broadcast industry, we call it smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors....

Sweet Jabo, wonder how much it will end up going for in the end.

You have what looks like a double ingot, just a little more glass or two slugs stuck together before, or at the beginning of the rollers. More glass means it cools slower and are still soft when they leave the rollers. I can't say for sure, just from what my eyes have seen, but it could get the orange peel affect from the shoot they go down after the rollers, or it could be something to do with cooling beyond the malleable point after or at the very end of the rolling process. There was actually more than a few of these at the run I was fortunate enough to witness, although many of them are tonged off into the scrap pile. Of those that make it down the rollers, into the sizing rollers some were tonged off and saved by what I consider a Jabo historian whose work is important. Although I personally don't think that many are needed for historical purposes, but that's another thread entirely. Of those that actually make it into the cans at the end, most of them are like Linus' head off peanuts, very lumpy and out of round. If the 1" tank needs repair, and I am totally speaking in the area of ignorance because I don't know for sure, couldn't they use the rollers with the tank they use for 3/4in mibs and just punch a larger hole for a bigger stream flow? But if it's the rollers that are in need of repair, they would need a few folks at the rollers with tongs like melon ballers shaping them the entire way down to preserve the roundness, which would help some, but undoubtibly cause tool marks and such on a higher percentage. Neat question, and although it would cost more, I would sure like to see Jabo make some 1in mibs again someday. Until then, I'll keep my fingers crossed over this lottery ticket.

LOL! Yeah, I suppose... like I said, live and learn! I actually picked the ones that I saw with the fewest colors! lol I even saw the post with the correct answers and thought to myself that those were the two less attractive ones, but I guess I didn't read close enough because those are apparently the Cac's. lol It just blows my mind that the Jabo marbles, the Big Dogs, are something I have actually been able to touch, experience and live. How many people living today can say the same for Cac? 0?

Ok, here's the rook guess. If I'm wrong that's ok. If I learn just a little bit each time I am wrong, just a little, then it's all worth it. And hopefully, I learn enough not to make the same mistake twice, but I promise nothing! lol

And.... Amen Psia!

David is so right on, thanks for re-posting that letter. I may even print it off and humbly ask David to sign me a copy! I can't wait to see what's next, and then hear the proverbial cry that almost always accompanies greatness. Rock on David McCullough! Rock on!

"In addition to Ed (Parsons), any interest may be directed to Rick Hall, Al Sumner, Ron Shepherd, Bill Kaiser, and Burt Wilkins also. Thanks for looking. Burt "

I guess it's the journey of the collector. Know what your buying or don't fork over a fortune.... unless you really, really want it.

Wow, I think David should feel very complemented with a statement as such. And, don't forget... In ten years it will be the young collectors that push the price of these absolutely fantastic marbles right through the sky. I for one plan on having one of the very best Jabo collections till my dying day.

I would think that if they are as good as a vintage marble and someone in 5 or 10 years can't tell the difference, then they'll be pretty close in price.