Steph

p.s. How many "national" marble tournaments were there in 1940? At least two, it appears. So this one would have been different from the Scripps Howard tournament series which started in 1923? yes, okay. So, this contest is the one which ran from 1937 to 1952? (much later edit: I question whether Berry Pink had "Marble King" tournaments for all those years. Where did we learn about those dates?) Wonder what the top prize was.

One possibility is that the trophies were re-used. The winners may have had to return them for presentation to the next year's winner. ? Perhaps Don now has one of a very limited production from the 30's, which may have been recycled until it was replaced by the taller style in the 1940 photos. Perhaps the newspapers, or whoever sponsored the events, eventually discarded them. -- not having the same emotional attachment as the winners would have. ??

Thanks Lloyd. So it does look like Don's might be a city level trophy. (doesn't it?) At least for a biggish city. 300 cities in 48 states. I guess the little towns would have sent their reps to the nearest metropolitan area to compete? Or were the more rural areas left out? Great question Galen! For that year and any other?!

And the winner is ... Jimmy Collins!

Not identical but looks related. Maybe they had different designs in different years. Looks like a box of Rainbos, doesn't it. Source: Tacoma Public Library Image Archives

Christensen

Cairo Novelty From Rinesmarbles' dug Cairo auctions: From Marbelalan's old Cairo page:

Alox Jill Marie's bag: (click to enlarge) Posted at MCC: Awesome swirl (and cool patch): 3rd photo from David Chamberlain's Alox article at Marble Mental

Ravenswood from David Chamberlain's Ravenswood article at Marble Mental

Diaperfolds were a different type of marble. Single seam CACs. I think once upon a time this one might have been called a diaperfold: . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .

How's this one? (christensen)

I know there are better CAC examples out there, but here's one for starters: A Christensen buttcrack would be a ButtCAC. ;-)

Pelt butt from marblealan auction.

Here is the ebay photo of my first Peltier Mansion. It has mica.

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More red and yellow cats. 2 aren't mine.

I think this might be about playing marbles in Spain From Burgos, Juegos Populares, by Fray Valentín de la Cruz, 1993: (source) AltaVista Babel Fish Translation:

Well, I've just discovered that there is a limit on number of images for a single post.

Not a trick question: do any of Rick's dug pelts have the filaments and clear which would suggest Vitro to you if you saw them in a marble which wasn't already obviously pelt? edit: trying to "get" what seems Vitro at times like this. There are other maybe similar examples which seem to get a split Vitro/Pelt vote and I don't usually see the Vitro side. Yet the Superiors were once thought to most likely be Pelt, if I recall the story correctly.

What do I think? I think I can see why someone would be tempted to call it a citrus. And I guess I can see why others would object. I personally wouldn't try to tweak the boundaries on a citrus i.d. The laws differ from state to state but usually there are stiff penalties for tweaking without a license. (Comparison mibs are Steve's, Charles' and Craig's) On the other hand, I thought you'd have a much easier time getting a citrus confirmation on your 2nd one. (comparison mibs are Charles' and Craig's)

What is your conclusion? Sounds like you've decided not pelt in spite of all the pelt-like signs. ??

This brushed patch is the style which is known as Wales. (Pics below are from various posts and auctions. Some are clickable to enlarge.) (Paula) The name comes from this particular distributor's name: (Al) It should be noted that Wales sold other types: And other companies sold what we call the Wale's type. (Bo) The small, usually single colored types are known by other names such as "Japanese pincher", "Japanese pincer", and "Mt. Fuji Peewee". They're in the "game marble" category: (Don) And for fun, here's a pretty one which was put up for i.d. The consensus opinion was Wales type. (Cairlinne)

Here's an Akro Pat dug. (I finally remembered where I'd put this one.)

Thanks! I love the Akros! Here's one Susan posted. I believe the consensus opinion was Vacor on this. That is the one which I think might give insight into how Vacors sometimes manage to resemble NLRs -- complete with seams -- but then when you look a little closer, something seems not quite right. Maybe some ribbons are actually hitting seams, but other ribbons which look like they're connecting turn back too soon. Sorta like on this one posted a while back: Cool, I just noticed that Randy's has a real/false seam thing going on too. I'll have to remember this one for that Vacor study I want to do "someday".

Then what? Please edify.