Steph

Hello. Nice to meet you. Thanks for sharing. Would love to see more.

I see them now! http://www.ebay.com/sch/boh-sar/m.html I'm going to move this to the main forum. Will leave a link in Buy-Sell-Trade though. And you should feel free to bump your thread as a reminder before the auctions end.

Why? The seam made me think it was okay as CAC. But I'm just a dabbler with CAC's.

Two more boxes possibly being in the picture does complicate things. However, with so many slags contained in your lot, I think it's a reasonable bet that your box contained slags. You can always keep your two pieces together with photos and explanations and then sort the marbles however you find appealing.

Galen, do you think you could whip us out a picture of some of CAC's Green & Reds?

Yes, Champion was on Peltier packaging years before the Champion Agate Company was born and they still continued to use it later 'coz we see it on plastic bags.

I still don't know what they are. So I don't recognize them as something collectors would intentionally collect.

Hansel tried to post some pix. It didn't work. Here they are. Original contents? Mike? Any thoughts?

Was that 9:30 tonight?

lol ..... Perfect.

Pigs are highly intelligent, misunderstood beings. (And I know you're generous. )

My first thought is that the colors look like Vacor. [Edit: I'm not sure if the swirl pattern does though.] And how did I miss this post before? Thanks Darla for bumping it.

Someone reminded me about these marbles from Argentina ... http://marbleconnection.com/topic/16895-argentina But maybe they look most like the ones sold in Argentina but maybe made in Japan.

I truly don't know. I've definitely seen it more than one way. Just don't know how wide a net the various definitions would cover. Maybe someone who actually used the term "baseballs" for their marbles back in the day will weigh in.

Photobucket should work. On your photobucket page do you see something which looks like {img}address.jpg{/img} ... but with square brackets instead of curly brackets? Looks like you have a Bennington in there, which is an older style. The solid colors are usually labeled as "game marbles" even if they're larger than the average size used for Chinese Checkers. Separate those out and post a closer of view of the remaining marbles, preferably in lines so we can easily point out which ones we're commenting on. (Does look like at least some of those will be oldish.) (Some solids are considered collectible but it's hard to describe what to look for.)

And then that purpley one .... hmmmmm One picture note: textured carpet often makes the camera focus on it instead of on the marble. Smooth gray background helps the camera set its automatic features to something close to what we're seeing with the eye.

No guess on the brown swirl -- other than WV Swirl. (Well, brown often suggests Ravenswood, but I'm not sure.) Likewise unsure on the reddish and whitish swirl. For now would have it in with general WV Swirls.

There's another cork -- can't quite make out the colors -- is that purple and red? It's a Prize Name. The slags aren't shouting out to me about who their makers are. The red and yellow patch could be Akro. I'm not 100% on it since other companies made red/yellow but straight seams makes Akro a good chance.

Could the blue disk be an oddball Peltier banana?

What do you count as baseballs? I remember a day when one definition required four blue ribbons ... and I think required them to be connected into two rings, but I can't remember for sure. I just made sure mine were connected to be safe. And then elsewhere other people called 'em baseballs with other colors than blue, and I don't think everyone was worried about 'em being neatly aligned.

(p.s., super cool finds, John) :)

Yup. Also from Morphy:

Edit ... waitaminnit ... John has the box version, doesn't he ... not the foldover version .... *off to look to see if I have open box pic*

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