Steph

That is one beautiful eye.

That really is some interesting action.

Hello Arteor. Welcome. I broke your post off into a thread of its own. I went to Google to translate the page and saw some of the articles there. Google translation

Fantastic ....

The first post here has a list of some abbreviations. http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=12056 If you have some specific ones which aren't on it, let me know so I can add them.

Is that a John Deere?

Here's the slogan "marble days are here again" for Akros in 1935.

I can see some stains when I look closely. Has anyone ever seen anything like them in flyer form or anything?

Happy Gobble Day!

could it be a monkey?

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.