Steph

yowzer

Not aware of a Florida connection. That might be the guy who "sold" marbles which were already in private collections -- using photos from sites like Morphy and Joemarbles. I think maybe that guy started in WV and moved to Florida.

Cute title.

How did you get the silvery parts? Are you allowed to divulge?

I see no reason someone would go to the trouble of making fake boxes unless there was huge money involved. Looking at the boxes they do not look reproduced to me. IMHO

All my best .......... Danny

As you can see from the final bid -- 1,280.00 even with all the damage -- those boxes are pretty special.

They're rare enough that even some of the more seasoned collectors are in doubt when they see it.

Not on my end. That name and location don't look familiar to me.

Striking difference.

I totally see why people would want this done. Everyone else just needs to be educated and not spend a lot of money before they know what's what.

Do these appear significantly different under a blacklight after you get done working on them?

The boxes from the auction:

Some which Brian posted awhile back:

A Pavcraz box -- one of several variations:

A view of the inside of a Pavcraz box can be enlightening also but that's all I have for right now.

My initial impression was heck-if-I-know. I was tricked by Pavcraz boxes originally. Then when comparing them to the real deal the fakery was obvious. But I still need to be reminded what the real deal looks like.

My 2nd impression after going through some old files is that the ones in this auction seem like the real deal.

I'm still going through more old files to try to find the boxes I used for my initial comparison. But for the moment, my thought is the auction is okay.

How many of those guys were made?

Don't know if I need it, but downloaded just in case.

I just paste the address. Making sure that it shows up as http, not https. And making sure I'm in the version of the editor which doesn't automatically turn it into a link when I paste it.

A couple of slightly different but basically the same boxes from ebay auctions. Estimating this at 1960's.

wild!

For the record, there is a six-page thread which was broken off of that thread so that we could leave part in the main chat and send only part to the BOI/SZ.

That second thread isn't showing now and I haven't reread it recently. I know I said some harsh or at least strongly worded things in it though.

Is it too late to say "wow" on that?

You didn't let me down, Paul! lol. Now I'm just going to have to go find that other marble and ask you about it in a message ......

Juicy.

Not the marble I thought you were teasing us with in that other thread.

Whatever it is, it's cool.

By pendant, do you mean part of a necklace? And does anything other than a watch have a fob?

I wondered if it might be something like, say, the end of a lamp-turner-on-er.

That's interesting. Not a style I'm familiar with.

gorgeous

definitely cool

Wow ... Santa was so thin back then.

1962 was a good year.

Yes. The opposite of bright and vivid.