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That is so cool. Congratulations. I noticed that on my blue one ... the transparent areas being a darker shade of blue.

Oh! lol! The mouse?! cute!

Me? no .....

My first thought was Jabo. But I don't know what to make of the stringers. Pretty cool.

If you look up at the top of the page, on the right, do you see an icon for an envelope?

What all kinds of marbles have been found in Unique boxes? This one was sold by someone in Argentina: http://www.ebay.com/itm/330634814587 p.s., was the B on the bottom of the box a clue to anything? I don't remember seeing a B before, but then again I don't remember seeing that many box bottoms ....

I was kinda wanting to post this pic of the "Vitro find" box, at least to get the big picture of how the lid attached. Here's a link to another pic of the insides: http://i119.photobuc..._marblebert.jpg I can see some Vitros in it. Tri-lites and and a yellow jacket. Above the yellow jacket is a marble which looks either Vitro or Akro. I think it's a Vitro but there are a couple of moss agates which look like Akros on the ends of some swirl rows. There are some which look like I might ID them as Anacortes marbles if they were posted alone and if they had more views showing?? What is that red, white and blue swirly one? Bottom row, top position in the 3rd column from the left.

If you're in the market for marbles, check out the buy-sell-trade forum and palaver with BJ. Tell him what you're looking for. Pix are in the works but maybe you can get some early deals.

Here's a pic of the other known case in case that helps the discussion: If you click it, it gets a little wider.

Do you have any gut feelings, or any empirical data, about this? Suppose you had 25 to 50 Marble King Rainbows, 25 to 50 Vitro Conquerors, 25 to 50 West Virginia Swirls, 25 to 50 Peltier Rainbos, etc. Would they sell better as a Marble King lot, a separate Vitro lot, a separate WV swirl lot, and so on .... Or would they sell better as lots of 25 to 50 assorted vintage marbles with a variety of makers in each lot? Would condition impact the decision of whether to sort or not?

Works for me! neat

The one with orange and yellow ribbons is cool.

They look Vitro to me. I think they did sell them in bags.

Wow. Those are so beautiful.

Looks like you had a blast. I'm jealous! p.s., enjoying the captions in your album ( : Griff's bad side?

Cool link. Al, do you have your bags yet? There was a Jabo Kokomo run. http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=13291

The way he phrases it is,"History links the set to the Alley Agate Company and the Anacortes Factory." I think I know what he means. This appears to be the box pictured on p. 21 of the Vitro book. Apparently what gives it its historical link to Anacortes is that it was in the "Vitro Find". Photo is "Courtesy of Raelyn Dolton". It was ID-ed in the Vitro book as a Vitro-Agate Sample Case. Might have been the only box like this known about at the time. So appears to have been some confusion based on where the box was found.

Do you have Paul Baumann's Collecting Antique Marbles? He did a lot of ranking in different categories, complete with tables detailing percentages and noting his sample sizes and all sorts of good stuff.

Nobody should worry their pretty little heads over that scenic china. It's mine.

Cool beans! Does this link work?

well done on the lolspeak! You seem quite fluent! I can read it but never learned to converse. Here's how to post images. Put the web address between img and /img tags. [img=http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/funny-pictures-salami-sensing-device-has-now-been-activated.jpg] Your code looks like this in that first post. Not sure what happened. [img=<a%20href=]

wow!!