Steph

Anyone seen anything like this in real life? This is from an ebay auction. The seller said circa 1940's.

Same from Wisconsin. Hope you find relief. (((hugs)))

No idea what the story is here, but hey, it's marbles!

http://www.alexcormack.com/Comic_Art_and_Comics%3A_Marbles!.html

Looks like a good price on that box of boulders.

Interesting comparison. Strikingly similar considering the different base. Your theory sounds good.

What does the label on the chinese checker mesh bag say?. Do you have a better photo?

Larry

I labeled this bag as being Randy's in one of my old files so it might be the same one from that photo:

Mmmmmm turquoise!

Looks like fun.

Looked through newspaperarchive.com again and the first ad I see for Hop Ching is 1938. fwiw, etc.

http://chinesechecke...no/history.html

That site has the 1928 date but where did that date come from? Do all the 1928 references trace back to the same source? And was that source significantly removed from the 20's and 30's in time?

I don't think I'm totally beyond being convinced that Chinese Checkers as we know it existed with that name or a similar one before 1935. I'd like to see more conclusive evidence though. Something concrete from the late 20's or early 30's. An early ad for "Hop Ching" maybe. Or maybe a Hop Ching set with 1928-1930's style game pieces. That would be awesome. Is that too much to ask? (lol)

Which game pieces would have been used in 1927 to 1931?

Whitman had wooden "marbles" in their multi-game box sets. I don't think those sets were all that old -- just inexpensive. But maybe someone else would know for sure.

Hiya Steph! I fixed the link in my post (I think). These have been flattened for the jewelry. Sorry killermarbles, I don't have any of these myself. I have to admit I cringed a little when I read her narrative hoping she doesn't happen upon a guinea or something:

Wouldn't that make you cry?! Well, maybe not quite cry but ......

But some of those cat's eye pieces are neat .....

I reduced them to about a third the size. VERY nice set of marbles. I'm going to move the thread to the main forum to get more input. I'll leave a link here though.

This might show up smaller than I reduced them too. Depending on how this displays on the monitor they might need to be clicked on once or twice to get the size I intended. (816 pixels across)

If they're too large they might not load. You can email them to me if you can't find a way to resize or otherwise get them to show. (Edit to add: I sent a PM with my email address.)

Hello. Welcome. Do you have a way to take pics of your find?

Does Vacor make "gems" or would someone have flattened a round one?

The bottom looks like Vacor's Fiesta style.

http://www.emarbles.com/mega2.htm

Great news, John.

Thanks for sharing!

I thought I remembered someone credible -- was it Galen? -- saying that there was more recent evidence that the one on the right was actually legit.

I'm prepared to be informed that I just imagined that! LOL. The memory is fuzzy.

Wish I had better pix of real Master boxes to compare details such as texture of the box, detail of the print, etc. And I wish I knew all the dimensions involved. That would be good too for future reference.

Here is one box. Obviously different from the one in the auction. Different depiction of marbles on front, different layout of print, different location of colors, different MMM logo.

Another box. Still different.

American Machine-Made Marbles shows a couple of other Sunbeam boxes. Still different from auction pic of course.

Grist's Big Book has yet another longer box. Still no match in the graphics. Of course.

Was there actually a variation of the sunbeam design just like the one in the auction?

If it's new, any idea who the artist might be? The other boxes the seller has listed are fantasy boxes. There's "Vitro" box as the 2nd pic of a "Peltier" box auction. Does it look familiar?

Well, those are some pretty marbles. I hope it brings more than the current (minimum) bid, or I'll seriously regret not having bid on it.

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Santa-Claus-y