Steph

Man, there are times when I seriously wish I had Photoshop. This is one of those moments. Raiders of the Lost Mibs! Can you see it?

Might relocate this thread to the Study Hall but figured I could start it here in case there was wider interest. Anyone have any cool storebrand marble packaging? The kind which might fly under the radar because it doesn't have a marble company name on it? Been specially thinking of the Woolworth packaging containing Cairo Novelties but anything would be interesting to me. Thanks!

Have a good one. Where do you fish in December?

Here are some American-made stone marbles. From the California Onyx Co., AKA the California Agate Co. (click to enlarge) That's one of the pix Doug Mitchell sent me. He's the grandson of the company founder, George Douglas Mitchell, shown in the photo.

Here's a pic of that blue-based jasper I used to have. Pic leaves much to be desired but people can get the idea.

Thanks Steve! Jaspers are one of my favorites among the seldom seen earthenware. I had a great one - white lines on blue. Alas, it's also one of the first mibs I ever sold, because it was one of the first I could identify! (lol) I have a large marble from the American Marble & Toy Mfg. Co. I also picked up a very inexpensive digital camera. Might be a good time to see if I can get it to work on mibs. Of course BJ already has some great pix of those. I don't think he'd mind if I posted them.

Bumping with a Ketchup & Mustard posted recently by Jeeperman at LOM. I believe it to be an NLR, but it seems to be approaching the boundary line between NLR's and Rainbos. It would mingle well with this boundary-pushing group of Tracers and Bloodies which Joeager found at auction: Here are some more tracers, I think from one of Lloyd's auctions. Still near the boundary I think. But I'm fairly sure these would be considered Rainbos by most. I'm putting a mental bookmark on these pix for when the subject of "tweeners" comes up. These mibs are dancing around that line so nicely.

By 'shooter', are we talking 3/4" range?

Coming soon.

great snag!

LOL. I thought of Nerf! But actually I didn't notice the spelling until like the third time I saw it. No problem! LOL

I moved it when I saw it going unanswered. It's sort of a specialized question so eneeeeway ...

p.s., as far as information my best guess on source and era is Japan, 1960's. That's all I got. Won't feel bad is someone corrects me. I know there were modern peewee cats, but were they cross-throughs? It might be educational to get a pic of the colors the modern cats came in. Does anyone have a pic handy? No matter what, that's one cool cat.

Oh man, I saw the title and thought I was in trouble again! Whew! what a relief. Jack, don't be frustrated. Feel Special! That is a very cool marble. The lack of information in this case seems like evidence of how cool it is. Put it in a plastic baggie and mark it "RARE". Then every year or two bring it out again to show it off! Maybe one of these years someone will be able to add more information about it. Maybe someone will someday find a lot of them. But for right now you get a prize for Cool Cat. well, that's my take on it. Sorry I can't give you more information.

Happy Birthday, and many more.

Ditto and Ditto! Here's to warmth and safety for everyone!

Vacor also makes marbles which are sometimes taken for older slags: Source: Schusserland.de Online Shop

Here are some more Vacors patches which I think could be taken for old. Sometimes the cutlines are v-shaped and it's easy to guess that they're modern. But when the cutlines are straighter they start to look more like Akros and Vitros. Interesting-looking variations exist but we don't often see them on the boards, so I don't know how common they are. That's one of the downfalls of vintage collecting - we collect VINTAGE. We don't know all that much about the modern ones. Always a surprise coming forward. (Schmoozer posted. I think he found them on the web.) Here's another set. I'm not sure if these are Vacor. However, they are foreign. Chris posted them.

Vacor "Old Fashion" Here's the pic from emarbles.com. Other colors are available also. I'll try to get some more pix to show more variation. That's a tricky thing about Vacors - how variable a single style can be, with some looking more nearly vintage and some being more obviously new. Here's more of the same. Still looking for a pic showing brown ones at least.

Ouch! Good news here tho'. No new snow to speak of overnight. A sultry steamy 10 degrees! I suspect the glee is like gallows humor. They gotta be out in the snow so they find something to laugh about. Hey, we have a newly retired snow plow operator on the board, don't we? Gene, if you are reading, any input into this?

This is a clip from a Vacor pic posted by Sandy. Is it the same style as the one at the bottom of Albert's photo. I think some of its kin have been mistaken for Pelt Cubscouts. I don't know the style name of this one. Any help on getting that name would be appreciated. Thanks. update: I've been informed that it is called a Wave Breaker. If that's correct, it is another example of a style which has varied significantly over time. This is the Wave Breaker example from emarbles.com. further update: Apparently that name is still uncertain. Another possibility is Van Gogh.

Here are some Vacors posted by Albert at LOM. Including some which look like CAC's. I'm pretty sure they came from one or more Mega Sampler bags.

Thanks for the links, Paula.

Rockwell Museum? Haven't heard of that one. But there are a lot of museums. Local history. Maritime. A wood type museum in the next town up the line which I kinda liked. And I don't know what all. We do have something called the Rahr West Art Museum which folks are proud of so I hate to admit I haven't visited it.

Where's the tongue-sticky-out icon! The fun started last night when the wind blew a power line down and into the street. That adventure only lasted about two hours. Some heroes from the power company came out into the bluster and took care of that. The snow in the drive is only about 5 inches deep. Not so bad. The problem is the 3 foot high mound of compressed snow boulders the road plow wedged onto the base of the drive. Luckily, Jimmy doesn't have to leave for work for about three hours. Hopefully I can save him from most of it before he wakes up. Later everybody!