Steph

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!

Oooh, nice cold pic. It's actually not too bad here either. I'm in Manitowoc. (Need to look up Lannon on a map.) I slipped on my sandals (lol) and went out to the porch to enjoy the view. There's a park across the way with Christmas lights. Very pretty actually.

But we can't afford a snowblower for the drive. All shoveled out by hand. Thanks for being such a nice person.

Just sayin'. It's cold in Wisconsin! brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I'm a southern girl. It's still a novelty to me.

Smart to pull it. I was a bidder but not a true contender.

Thank you everyone. A very nice assortment.

Got some nice feedback on the Ribbon Cores. Hope that gives you something to work with. A picture is worth a 1000 words in cases like this. If you still have questions, I'd love to try to answer. And of course we could probably settle your questions directly with pix of your mibs if that's possible.

Looks like it's on a bed of iron filings. Nice contrast of texture.

aaaahhhhhhhhh, you guys are so cute. Happy Birthday Dani!