BobBlock

There are at least two 7/8" experimentals out there. I've owned one for about 25 years with an Emma on it. The other is floating around out there and was at various times in the past owned by Elliot Pincus and by Jamie Browder.

I think I'll just get a few lots of the 1500 and dump them all in a bathtub, and then I'll charge people to roll around in them

For less than a buck each I'm thinking I may by a bunch to give out to attendees at the October Northeast Marble Meet

It be nice if they were at least glass. Although technically I guess he is correct, since they are marble, that would make the group "marbles"

This is the background for the Northeast Marble Show postcard

Bumpity bump. Show and auction this weekend. Room trading tonight. Radisson Hotel, Cromwell CT

Bump. Auction on this Saturday and Marble Show on Sunday up in Connecticut. Room trading all weekend.

This is an auction of 240 lots of high-quality antique and collectible Handmade and Machine Made Marbles and related items, including original boxes and Akroware. It features the collection of Mr. William Taufic, the winner of the blue ribbon in Home Activities at the 1969 Minnesota State Fair. Mr. Taufic's mother was an antique dealer. He began going to flea markets and auctions with her in 1962 and bought marbles with the spare change that his mother gave him. He collected until 1977. He put together marble displays and entered them in several local fairs during 1967 and 1968. In 1969, he put together a display of his collection at the time and entered it in the Minnesota State Fair. He won the blue ribbon for Home Activities. That complete collection, as well as the blue ribbon and a copy of the newspaper article showing him with the collection, are included in this sale. The sale also includes the other marbles he collected during that 15 year period. There are additional consignments from a half dozen other collectors in this sale. The sale includes a broad range of marbles including rare Swirls, Onionskins with Mica, various rare Lutzes, three Red Micas (!), Sulphides, Akro Agates including some nice oxbloods, Christensen Agates including Guineas and Flames, Peltiers including a Superman and a rare National Line Rainbo, original boxes, and Contemporaries. Almost everything in the auction is Mint. A great selection of marbles. The auction will be held live on the Saturday of the Nutmeg Marble Show, April 29. It is at the Radisson Hotel at 100 Berlin Road in Cromwell CT. Viewing is 9 to noon. Auction starts promptly at 1PM. If you can't make the live sale, you can bid either absentee or live on Liveauctioneers.com. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/102582_blocks-marble-auction-1118/ The full catalogue is available there now and you can register and leave absentee bids. A pdf version of the catalogue is at http://www.marblemeet.com/nutmeg-marble-show/ Some sample images in the next couple of posts.

The catalogue for Marble Auction #1118, which will be held at the Nutmeg Marble Collectors Club Show the last weekend of this month is now posted on Liveauctioneers: https://new.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/102582_blocks-marble-auction-1118?count=all You can view the items, register to bid, leave absentee bids and participate online during the live auction at the link above.

Are you looking to buy one or you just trying to track them all down. There were two that I know of that were "decapitated" (the head broke off), so you can cross two off your list.

Andrea, it was an experienced collector, not a novice. I ended up blocking her from bidding on my auctions.

Several years ago someone asked to return a fairly expensive Swirl to me. Which of course I approved. They sent me back a catseye. Ebay told me to go pound sand when I complained.

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CACs glow. I have the original box with those posted in the last post packed away somewhere

20% odds of winning door prize?? I'm coming to KC next year!!!

Wow, I didn't even remember that I had laid music on top of it.

You will definitely find color issues and general resolution issues on these things. They were made back in the 80s and 90s and the consumer video cameras were low resolution and the white balance feature was not well-developed back then. In addition, they were never intended for archival purposes and were reproduced on bulk videotape resulting in random noise issues.And depending on how they were stored you will likely find all kinds of base matrix tape issues as well as dropouts, etc. You might want to try baking them before ripping them and that might improve the performance. I have the masters for all these tapes, so I can save you a generation on the copying if you want to borrow them.

About a year ago I lent a buddy of mine my Grateful Dead collection of 167 master tapes from various shows I taped and he's slowly working his way through converting them and putting them on archive.org. I think there's 65 or 70 auctions that I produced tapes for. I can feel your pain.

I have a complete library :-) I can lend you.

See attached flyer for the Nutmeg Show in Connecticut.

These are not Robert Brown. Tom Thornburg made these in vast numbers with crazing as well. I bought ones like these directly from him back in the day.

That's the Immersion Set. The box set has been described as "bordering on ludicrous"

Are the Dead tapes Masters, 1st gen, or later gen?