Steph

Another mix of vintage marbles, relatively common, mostly American, with a bit of Japanese mixed in. At the very bottom there's a Japanese "Wales" style marble -- it is red and white with a clear interior. Above that one is a marble with a brown patch enclosed in red. Might have white on the side not showing. Would be nice to see another view of that one. My first impression of values is #2 could be your most valuable group. #1 and #3 look roughly equivalent to me. But if that one marble I'm asking about in lot #3 turns out to be a Vitro bullseye ... that's slightly more interesting. I do not know its value and I'm sure it wouldn't be a whole lot. But it's more interesting. And it could turn out to be something completely different.

Again, a nice vintage mix. The blue and black Marble King Bumblebee adds to the fun quotient of the lot. But again it's commons. That shooter-sized clear-based marble near the bottom of the lot is a little more interesting to me than the rest. And there's a cloudy-based marble with a blue patch near the middle but in the top half of the group. I would pick that one up and hold it toward a light and see if I could see orange inside that one. That would make it an interesting marble. If you posted this for $9.99 on ebay, someone might think that a bargain for the lot and you might get some higher bids. I really can't say how ebay psychology works these days. P.s., the shooter at the very top also interests me just coz I don't know what it is. I don't expect it to turn out to be valuable, but I don't recognize it in this one view.

Hello. Welcome. I see a mix of vintage marbles. Mostly American. At least one Japanese and one German. All relatively common. So you might list them on ebay for $9.99 and see what happens.

I just noticed some new postings to it. http://marbleconnection.com/gallery/ When we had the scroll across the top of the homepage with recent entries it was easier to remember to check but I'll just keep posting the occasional reminder. Poke your head in up there.

Looks like a drawing. Funny (interesting). You see paintings which looks like photos. You don't expect to see photos which look like paintings. But you've managed that before (thinking about a twig with blue shadow).

so pretty

kewl

You, Me & the Apocalypse I'm hooked!

Nice!

Was the giant marble in the middle a rock marble? How would they have gotten that one out? I'll continue to keep my eyes out for what the uses of the giant clays might have been. Whether industrial or play.

Beautiful components, and I love the name -- I've always liked the word "murmel" --. and nice to see you. Very charming components. The cities and the polished wood. And the pinball machines. And I'm typing as I watch it -- just now I'm at the chess table. So many tricks. Nicely put together video.

Found a hit on ring men! Woot woot! Described as golf ball sized marbles --- (Also saw reference to a game called "ring-men" but didn't see enough details to post.) This is from 1966 talking about the Blue Eye game, played a lot 20 years before in Blue Eye, Missouri.

No! Did someone say they might not? Lemme at em!

Thanks for the insights.

I bumped the thread for you: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/19618-william-mckinley-sulphide/ Some 20th century marble companies did goodies for political candidates. Don't know about it often being presidential ... But Akro and Master had some political things. And Peltier had a couple of president names on picture marbles. (I think two.) Well, don't want to sidetrack this thread, so there's the link to the sulphide thread.

Bump for sclsu. The Morphy link again: http://morphyauctions.hibid.com/lot/17755027/president-mckinley-campaign-sulfide-marble-?tab=0&cpage=5

Any cross-over with marbles? I remember a sulphide which had an 1800's presidential slogan in it, but folks were suspicious about it. It was such an obscure slogan that I wanted it to be the real deal. Was an odd thing for someone to study up on and then create in modern times.

What were the other 10%? This doesn't look Vitro to me. *scratching head* Mossy base?

Albert's marbles came to me through Alan

Browsing through the old posts looking for one of the pix of my magazine collection ..... guess this wasn't the thread Bump anyway coz it's a fun thread :D

I can see a little sparkle there ... I'll imagine the rest. (neato)

LOL @ all the spellings for peewees, and yet I still don't have all the ones I could. In 1883, they were spelled peawees. Gotta add the names from the 1883 "Marbles and Where They Come from" --- http://marbleconnection.com/topic/6682-marbles-and-where-they-come-from-1883/