Steph

I love me my basement cats. Does that make me bad? http://www.lolcatbible.com/ Genesis 1 Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs 1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem. 2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz. 3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz. 4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin. 5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1 6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling. 7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen. 8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day. 9 An Ceiling Cat gotted all teh waterz in ur base, An Ceiling Cat hadz dry placez cuz kittehs DO NOT WANT get wet. 10 An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urth and waters oshun. Iz good. 11 An Ceiling Cat sayed, DO WANT grass! so tehr wuz seedz An stufs, An fruitzors An vegbatels. An a Corm. It happen. 12 An Ceiling Cat sawed that weedz ish good, so, letz there be weedz. 13 An so teh threeth day jazzhands. 14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the skiez for splittin day An no day. 15 It happen, lights everwear, like christmass, srsly. 16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two grate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day. 17 An Ceiling Cat screw tehm on skiez, with big nails An stuff, to lite teh Urfs. 18 An tehy rulez day An night. Ceiling Cat sawed. Iz good. 19 An so teh furth day w00t. 20 An Ceiling Cat sayed, waterz bring me phishes, An burds, so kittehs can eat dem. But Ceiling Cat no eated dem. 21 An Ceiling Cat maed big fishies An see monstrs, which wuz like big cows, except they no mood, An other stuffs dat mooves, An Ceiling Cat sawed iz good. 22 An Ceiling Cat sed O hai, make bebehs kthx. An dont worry i wont watch u secksy, i not that kynd uf kitteh. 23 An so teh...fith day. Ceiling Cat taek a wile 2 cawnt. 24 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has MOAR living stuff, mooes, An creepie tings, An otehr aminals. It happen so tehre. 25 An Ceiling Cat doed moar living stuff, mooes, An creepies, An otehr animuls, An did not eated tehm. 26 An Ceiling Cat sayed, letz us do peeps like uz, becuz we ish teh qte, An let min p0wnz0r becuz tehy has can openers. 27 So Ceiling Cat createded teh peeps taht waz like him, can has can openers he maed tehm, min An womin wuz maeded, but he did not eated tehm. 28 An Ceiling Cat sed them O hai maek bebehs kthx, An p0wn teh waterz, no waterz An teh firmmint, An evry stufs. 29 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, the Urfs, I has it, An I has not eated it. 30 For evry createded stufs tehre are the fuudz, to the burdies, teh creepiez, An teh mooes, so tehre. It happen. Iz good. 31 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthxbai.

White, yellow, blue and red? Sweet. That black and gold is incredible. Those are my brother's school colors. If you send it to me, I'll give it to him. Promise.

Here's one: (click to enlarge) More in some of the later attachments here. http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=15362

*whistles nonchalantly* (thanks Mike!)

Gracias. ( :

Sweet bunch of mibs there, Edna. I should probably know what RDR means, huh? The initials of 3 birthday boys?

those are gems

One sort of natural way marbles get a matte texture is in aquariums. Some new marbles are given a matte texture by means of acid.

I sorted them by how much it stood out. 1, 3, 5, 7 are the ones where it stood out most to me. There were others which almost made it to the list for something like Mike is saying. Sort of lost their luster.

Looks like the torch adds new damage.

Nope. I'm quite insecure with my red, white and blues! For a time they all seemed to be called Champion. I've tried to sort it out but haven't found much information to go on. That was the main reason for this thread to start with. It didn't go that far. Obviously. Maybe ask about it in the main chat. Might be time for a new look at 'em.

That's my facebook status!

I don't think they made that kind in Germany in the 1980's. However, it might have been available for sale in Germany at that time. Vacor made some with similar coloring in about that time frame. Here are Vacor examples someone posted from a Mega sampler bag.

Corkscrews? Shocking, I tell ya, shocking! Very nice array!

Joe says Muwahaha, you ain't seen nuthin yet!

I just went through some pix George Sourlis sent. They're on paper so I can't post them at this time, but one shows a Champion box with the No. 25 label on the top. From Berry Pink, Inc. The design is a little different from the ones above. One difference is the box top has a decorative border. Looks about the same size though. So I'll guess that's what Pink would have designated most of the boxes in this thread: #25. I was searching George's pix because I thought he sent me a copy of a 1953 MK ad. I hoped to confirm that it looked pretty much like the 1954 MK ad shown on p. 105 of AMMM. I think it did. Anyway, the 1954 ad has plastic bags. Not sure if it's a photo or a drawing but the marbles look like swirls. FTR and FWIW.

A marble. 1997 is the year I heard. Check out this page: http://www.themarbleman.com/caramels.htm

Maybe the FBI could confirm those were Rainbo stripes. I can't swear to it: (clicky) However, I'm pretty confident the marbles donated to the Marble King tournament also highlighted in that flyer were Rainbos. Remember this pic? source: Tacoma Public Library Archives

Even earlier

Scott, do you know how long the VFW tournament went on? The last year I have the national results for is 1961. I saw an announcement saying that the national was going to be in Tennessee in 1962, but then I couldn't find any follow-ups anywhere saying that it actually happened. It never occurred to me to ask the VFW itself, until I saw your post. Doh.

"Everyone wants to kiss the marble!" ? (lol - don't know what that means but it's cute) About that list, First, I still need to reformat it for this page. I think I can get a decent, readable format, but I'll have to pull Sam's file back up to sort it all out. Gotta go find his email. After that, I'll try to figure out what you're getting at. Did he get an entry wrong? Or did he leave out a whole category? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of that tournament. *off to find his email*

Gambling marble table ....... http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p9020coll2&CISOPTR=1016&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 (While I was in the neighborhood looking at Saturnino Garcia's pic, I saw the link to this.)

Only 1947? Only VFW? I have a number of articles snagged from online newspaper archives. Different tourneys, different years. Including for example one mentioning a lack of funding for a state VFW tourney in AZ in 1950, which may or may not have been resolved. I have a number from 1947. Not all I could have gotten probably, and I don't know how interesting they are. When I was searching, I was mostly just trying to get the names of all the national champs. But I saved a few extras here and there for more background. The 1947 champ from Texas was a "modest boy" named Saturnino Garcia. The Texas VFW gave him cowboy boots, a silk shirt and a sombrero to wear to Boys Town. Here's a pic of him. Hmmmm ... doesn't look like a sombrero. lol. p.s., Check out that motor bike Tilton Holt won in 1950. (link)

What he said. Those black and yellows are cool.

oh cool! Wonder if it was remotely possible that it's original. How many marbles would fit in that box? I still wonder if Pink ever brokered any deals between Rosenthal and Alley. And supposedly there was a 100-count box from Rosenthal. Is that it? That 1940(ish) flyer had a pic with a bag with the same design. I have a bigger version than this if someone needs more detail. (might need to double click for full size)