Steph

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.

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.