Steph

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.

Hope the person ships it safely.

Here's the marble of Tom's I was remembering. The aventurine didn't come through in the photo as much as I would have hoped, but it came with a box, which is why it stood out in my memory. Here are a couple more photos from Tom which I think might be the same marble and some of its companions, and then the box it came in. (Tom broke the box up into multiple photos across at least two threads.)

Here's a swirl which Pete had listed in his catalog at LOM a couple of years back. Listed in the Champion section. I THINK I have seen a two-seam aventurine pictured straight from a Master box. If I did, I think it was at LOM. I think it was posted by someone named Tom. Not sure if I saved the photo. Might take some work to find it but I will give it a shot.

Finally looking at the vids. Have to rewire my computer everytime I wanna do that. I don't read so good sometimes. Thought you were gonna be talking about the blizzards of this year. Those were crazy. I'm in Wisconsin. We were fine. But I had to worry about my family in Texas. Looking at the vids now. hey that first one's not a vid, it's a slide show. that's a lotta wotta .....

My guess would also have been contemp. It's sorta a dark mib. Larger brighter pix could help, maybe? Maybe one of the pontil? If anyone else is leaning toward contemp but if no one recognizes it for sure, you might give it a try at glasswizards.yuku.com.

I'm pinning this one because I just love this box so much. (Not my box! pix were donated) Here's another thread I posted at the same time with a later sample case, If You Can Handle A Little More Akro. I don't want to pin it because the pinned section is starting to get quite long. I'll settle for a link. Actually there were quite a few more cool box photos and some ads which I was privileged to post around the same time, many Akro but also some others. They might be in the archives, or in the study hall. If not in one or the other, I will move them when I next come across them. :-)

That is so cool . . . that it made it out of the factory inside a bag. Mostly I think of double ingots as dug marbles. In theory I knew they're not always dug. Pretty sure I've seen at least one foreign double ingot cat's eye so it had to be in a package. But it seems very rare to me. So wow. That is way cool.

thank you lots a stuff to catch up on. thanks for the encouragement.

"edgy" and "passionate": okay "abusive": not okay Dancing around the line: your choice but this thread has two reports and might be closed soon

@ Bruce, hmmmm, excuse me while I adjust my paradigm. @ Jack, those are soooooo cute sitting next to that penny, so bright and colorful and cute!

I have some mystery pee wees of my own. Got my 2nd Jumpo Marblo box tonight. Here's my first box, half the patches are peewees, half a tad over 1/2". The Jumpo Marblo set was a Rosenthal product. Rosenthal was a jobber, so who knows where they got the mibs from. Berry Pink was an executive with them, and had Alley and Pelt connections, so that might be a clue, but who knows?

The clearie wee wees I got in 1976 would not have been Alley. Pretty sure about that. I have also bought amber wee wees in Champion packaging, within the last 10 years. Didn't mention that earlier because there's a good chance the bag was backfilled.

I got a buncha clearies of many sizes from wee wee to shooter for Christmas in 1976. I've been under the impression that they came in a Champ Bicentennial bag. Could be wrong about that. But that's my best guess for the wee wee clearies - Champ.

No prob! Glad we could help one way or the other!