Steph

oh hey, I just opened the thumbnail, and I recognized the big colorful one on the left. You got that big group? Beautiful!

I'm going to go ahead and move this. Kinda like to have handmades in the main forum so people who don't frequent the ID forum can have a say on them. ( :

?????? My first thought would be German, but I couldn't argue against Czech.

nice job!

Oh hey, I just checked their feedback and see another box. The plot thickens. The marbles in this 2nd box are ID-ed as Japanese, and 1940's, though again with an unprofessional looking label. The marbles do look like they could be 1940's Japanese tho. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120595793667 He's not making much money on them. What if they're real and he quits selling because they're not profitable. What might we miss out on seeing!

If it were from here, I would have thought "wrong". I don't have much to compare it to though from Argentina. How would I know what boxes would have looked like in, say, the 1950's? The other marbles I saw from them were mis-IDed. Said to be 1950's though at most half were. But maybe they didn't know. http://cgi.ebay.com/Dozen-old-Swirl-Marbles-/12060147638

La cancha 16 old marbles in box!! Looks like a modern label but it looks like it might be over some other writing. And the mibs look foreign and oldish. Whaddaya think? (click to enlarge)

omg + drool. those are so nice! I thought I knew what you meant by picture record. I didn't. Those are even better than I imagined! wow!

I just noticed the announcement! Hope it's been a good one!

Sure

That's a beautiful piece of wood! wow I also have a thing for unique items with nice shapes which once were functional but make awesome displays. I have some cool old hardware in that category.

Wish I knew which exact mib(s) were featured in that, but here are a couple more Universe marbles for fun.

pretty amazing what you can do with an ordinary marble. nice!

Well, happy birthday! Hope you find a lot of marbles BJ.

Thanks Marie. Nobody's perfect. Thanks for trying. p.s. Rainbo says hi. :-)

Thanks Steve for addressing the subject after that last thread. It's a deep one. I appreciate the effort and the leads.

Way to go!

p.s., Happy Birthday

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Still gorgeous!

Gorgeous! Do you want this to be in the buy-sell-trade forum? Only asking. The ID section is fine with me! A nice surprise to have such an eyeful of color.

A nice little marbles article from Argentina: http://sites.google.com/site/danielhoracioeugenio/bolitas © 1995 Daniel Horacio Eugenio

Maybe someone kept their Chinese Checkers set in the box. :-)

I see what you mean. That's a neat, orderly grid in the middle of your box. Hard to say. Maybe it did come from Akro that way. Or maybe someone else stored their extra marbles in the box - very neatly. At one time at least, your box coulda been sold with a bag, but of course I couldn't swear Akro always sold it that way. Here is an ad with what looks like your box, and a bag.

I heard once that there were guineas found in made in Mexico packaging. I remember this in the context of a discussion about big ones. I was under the impression they were ones which could be passed off for CAC's. And I heard that someone well-known in marbles was following up on that. Or at least I think I did. Maybe someone slipped something into my root beer. Does anyone else here remember anything like that? Know any details?

Happy Birthday Bill!