Steph

This was shared on Facebook. Another legend lost. Condolences to his loved ones.

@akroorka ?

Not an athlete. But I coulda been a contenda! Childhood was the early 70's in Alabama and my mom discouraged me from going out for little league. And in high school I did the geeky things. Didn't even have to have PE. The marching band counted for that requirement. Flashforward to college years and a rare Oklahoma snowfall. While out on a walk that morning, I made myself a snowball and decided it must be thrown. The problem was that I was standing on main street. But it had to be thrown. So I picked out an electric pole and I let 'er rip. Right before I released the snowball I was conscious that, if I missed, I could be in some trouble with that car's windshield right behind the pole. But I nailed it. Then I looked around for police cars. ... Now it's the evening of that snowy day and I'm attending a performance of a touring folk duo. After the show I walk up with my friend to talk to the performers. While my friend is purchasing a recording from one of them, the other looks at me and says "Nice arm." Ah, glory days.

JABO bought Vitro Agate in 1992, including the right to use the name. All the marbles made after that were JABO-Vitro. I called them once around 2010 I think and that's how they answered the phone -- "JABO Vitro". Vitro had been operating out of Anacortes, Washington at the time of the purchase. JABO brought the Vitro machines and surplus marbles to Ohio. That's where the Classics in that bag were made. I saw on Facebook where Josh said that Jim King did that packaging. I knew that Jim had ties to JABO -- he was was a key figure in JABO's transition from the Classics to the contract runs. I probably knew once upon a time that he did some packaging of Classics.

Oh, you didn't get to see if it says anything on the back, did you? Some creative bags were made by non-Jabo people who were selling Jabos back when the classics were still in production. With this one being called "Camouflage", I suspect it would have been made later than most ... after collectors got more into naming? Hopefully some of our more knowledgeable Jabo-philes will have interesting things to say about it.

Beach ball ????

Agree with Tommy. Peltier. But is it old enough to be a cub scout or is it "just" a cool rainbo?

Read about it in old newspaper articles. Used to have fun searching archives for anything related to marble history.

Oops, I did mean it was the stone marbles which were soaked in lard to get a renewed appearance. Glass marbles can get moons but no they wouldn't survive with all the little moons which the prized stone aggies could sustain through the years.

Good catch!

The crescents from impact with other marbles were well known to kids back in the day. It was a common thing to put shooters in lard overnight to diminish the appearance of damage.

Have seen it called that before. Don't know for how long or by how many people.

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Your marble might be a Marble King. More views could help.

Possibly Alley Agate

I will call it a Tri-Lite though I wouldn't be surprised if Du-Lite was more correct. I think mostly people don't know for sure what Du-LItes were and all the 1930's marbles get lumped together as Tri-Lite.

I don't know how to tell the difference between the Leighton companies.

I am leaning that way also.

1903 for MFC. Martin Christensen's 1899 sphere making design was revolutionary. He used it first with ball bearings and made a fortune off that. Then he moved to marbles. He got Leighton to teach him about working with glass. 1914 for Akro. Before 1914, Akro was a jobberer. They bought MFC marbles and packaged them up pretty for sale. Then the embezzler Horace Hill stole MFC's glass formulas, machine designs and client list. He left MFC for Akro. He tweaked the machine designs enough to get a patent for a "new" design so that Akro could legally start production. And that is how Akro got into the marble-making business.

Martin F. Christensen got his recipe for oxblood from James Leighton. Akro then got the oxblood recipe from a dishonest MFC employee. I'm not aware that CAC had oxblood.

Well, seriously, I am not seeing monetary value in this group. The red striped one at the bottom might be worth a second look but for the rest I say have fun with your wrist ricket.

That marble looks like a hot mess to me. I don't understand the interest in it. Well, I only count three bidders, so not that much interest after all. The seller's other listings reinforce the negative impression I got from the listing above.

Modern Marble King. No name that I know of. I bet some people on Facebook are calling it a bumblebee. It's happening a lot. People putting vintage names on their modern Marble Kings. Grrrrrr.