Steph

I guess it wouldn't be random to ask what they were doing .....

Fixed

My mom had a card collection in her childhood. Just a sample of each deck. I should check to see if she had any marble players.

one vote for super neat nlr

It's clearly a moonrock.

I loved his straight face ... and the brown head boy's occasional grin.

Meow

What a beautiful card. Very creative. Merry Christmas to everyone! And peace in the New Year.

The mica is scrumptious.

It's like a tornado. That underwater photo is very revealing.

Pre-Jabo? Scandalous! (pretty mibs!)

Will do.

Nice array

Thanks for letting us know, Cheryl. And thanks for the link, Steve.

Nifty! What does the cover on the red box look like? (Not meaning to sidetrack your question about sets with purple)

The emphasis on recycling adds to my impression of this being a thrifty 40's or 50's thing. How big was recycling before the war? I have some neat examples of recycled materials used for packaging. My best is some fur cleaning powder which says "hand grenade container" on the bottom. ( : Posted a pic of that one here once.

I'm rooting for the post office. Keep saying I'm going to start writing letters again. Maybe I'll write a few this afternoon. If you're on my mailing list maybe you'll know in a few days if I kept my resolve. ( :

From a 1939 article. They don't seem to hold a lot of marbles. But they do say Champion. And it's from when Berry Pink was selling Pelts. Fairly large size pic -- might need to double click for full size

Well ... now that I look more closely, yes, I've seen mesh bags with just Champion, not Champ Jr. BRB with a pic. (I have a cropped pic. Wanna see if I can find a more complete copy. :-)

One of the versions said Peltier on the side: Berry Pink later put his brand on Champion boxes. I'm pretty sure he was still boxing up Pelts at least part of the time he used this style.

I have seen Champion on a box. Related?

<insert joke about Ric having me on ignore > The time frame I'm thinking of for all of this is marbles from the 40's, packaged in the 50's. The patches in Post #3 are ones I would guess were from 1940's so it doesn't surprise me that they'd be in the stock Master bought from Akro. I was surprised by the corks in Post #2. But in a way they made sense. I've never been sure of when cork production ended but the corks in Craig's boxes don't exactly fit the types I'm familiar with from the 1930's, so maybe they were produced later after all. Chuck's aventurine marble looks more Master to me than Akro fwiw, but ......