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Sweet box!

I might have seen small opaque ones. I think Road Dog mighta had one or more small ones. I'm trying to remember whether his were clear or solid.

Anyone notice this comment at Marbleforum.org? On the Pelt Comics page, someone asked about a Jiggs comic marble. Jiggs was an old strip character. Is Jiggs on the Marble King repros?

Just saying. The Stanley-Lapics are major Jabo fans. Jabos are the marbles used in the local school tournaments in their area. According to Debra, the kids love the colors. Debra and Whitney's tourney shooters are/include real agates but the marbles featured in the recent articles and interviews about their trip to England were Jabos.

Bumping with a new pic of my particular Rosenthal peewees. (And near peewees.) I have two sets now. Green patches and blue patches. The green is most or all transparent. The blue is most or all opaque. This scan does not show the blue shade at all well. In hand the blue is much darker and richer than it is coming across on my monitor. And the white is too bright on my monitor. But some other details come out fairly well in the scan, so here it is.

There are some Ravenswood bags for sale in the Buy-Sell-Trade forum. Did you see them? Rick found a cache of them. But they're not that common in general, if I understand correctly. http://marbleconnection.com/index.php?showtopic=13373

LOL. You tricked me. I still didn't know which question you were asking. I didn't say there were a lot of Christensen marbles turned out. Simply that companies regularly sold their marbles in boxes. There would be a lot of reasons for Chrissie marble boxes not to survive after the Depression, a lot of factors making the box rare and pricey in present day.

oooooo, I have a blood viper. coooool.

To the best of my understanding, that's how Akro (and others) sold them on a regular baais. I think that's how they shipped them to retailers. Sometimes it would be a counter box, and kids would choose individual marbles from it. Sometimes dealers would advertise the whole box for sale.

So, here's my Jabo Cobra which David was trying to post. David, the pic at Yuku has a weird extension, pjpg, instead of jpg. So this board don't like it. I kinda like the Viper name.

So is cyclone the same as cobra? Are the names interchangeable? Or is one a subcategory of the other?

There's gotta be someone in the area. Doesn't there? Well, I don't know exactly what "in the area" would be but it sure seems like a lot of collectors in Ohio.

Do you mean that horrible wooden Master box? I think that seller was in Maine at last sighting. Here's the auction I had in mind. The item location for this one was given as New Mexico, so it looks like a completely different situation. Item #150430039837 I'm still guessing it might have been an innocent combination of vintage items. I did a little googling and there was a Majestic greeting card company founded in Brooklyn in 1938. Company site. So that's the way I'm leaning for now. Maybe an old box, but not as old as the super cool marble box inside, and brought together at some point after the paper inside was used up. jmho!

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, shimmmery

Happy Birthday Ron! Hope you're finding time to celebrate! . .

I think you might have just cemented the name "wee wee"! I was starting to get used to it. Now you made me laugh at it. And now I think it's stuck!

If that's the one which was on ebay this past month, I didn't recognize the Majestic box. My guess was that it might have originally held stationery or something else other than marbles. And then someone realized that the marble box and pencil set and all fit in nicely. However, I do not know. That was sure a pretty Master box inside.

Wow, I hadn't noticed that V-bag box before. That's cool! The bag is awesome and the marbles inside the box are a style I've been curious about before. So thanks! Some boxes might be tough to narrow down to within better than 10 years. I like trying to get as close as possible tho'. Sometimes I try to match boxes up to ads or articles. Last year we had some fun with Master Glass boxes which advertised candidates for offices in the Lions Club. Found articles about the elections in newspapers from 1955 and 1956. So voila! We had dates!

you can get through security with bells on?

Here's a pic Al has posted in a couple of Berry Pink threads. I believe they were Patry's:

Are these Patry's? And is the bottom view backlit? edit: yes to both! She said the top three were solid, no light passing through, and they were swirls. The bottom two were made more like sunbursts. The backlit photo appears to be one of this pair.

Here's one Kris posted. I'm not sure I have any other swirly looking pix. . . I have other aventurine pix but it's not so clear whether they're swirly or stripey. (click to enlarge)

wow

Norbert Geitner, Germany, circa 2004. A little less than an inch in diameter.