Steph

(click pix to enlarge) Vitro Shooters Mesh bag: Closeups: The seller said about an inch. When asked for particulars he said, "I Measured a couple loose ones with my calipers and one was .985 inches and the other .995 inches so I would say they are 1 inch marbles." The seller is baam!!, with 2 exclamation points. I can't leave a link to his ebay sales page. The exclamation points are messing up the html code for some reason. Are these shooters? Poly bags: (source for bag on left)

Peewees: (click to enlarge) Block's auction description: P.s., most of the marbles in the Mosaic box here are peewees too.

No. 16 carton, with slags: (click to enlarge)

(click to enlarge) Auction description:

Codeg box. (griff's box) It says "British Made". The other Codeg pix I have say "foreign". Would these have been made on a House of Marbles machine, or ... ?

Very rough/old draft, haven't checked the links for errors or redundancy Marbles from outside the U.S. See also Original Packaging European: Various: I.D. Help needed (euroflames) Ravenswood?, Purchased from ebay (large flame) German Ox, where was ya Help Needed Here Who? What? When? (sort of guinea-like. not sure about Vacor, but foreign sounds right) Any Info On These Please? (lovely sparklers) German: Trip to Lauscha (includes info about wirepulls) EYE CANDY! Just pics of amazing marbles! Enjoy! "From the collection of an European collector" Peach Pretender (not CAC ) German Sparklers I, inside / beachball CATS?, New or old shooters, or Germans? My First Sparkler! Really Bad Picture, But, What Are They?? (German striped transparents, comparison to slags) tell me about this one (original pix are replaced by pelts at the time of this writing, but there are other good pix, plus good discussion) English Swirls / Flames All That Glitters Is Not Gold...., ...Or Aventurine Or Lutz.... Ribbon Core Or Germany Sparkler Or ?? German Marbles, Original Packaging German Corkscrew, (well, sort of) Red Cac?...or German Stripped Transluscent?, wicked design! Quote about marbles with Bonux printed on them: "Bonux appears to be a Procter & Gamble western Europe detergent brand product. heres a link." (This quote is from an old thread.) Odd Shooter Oxblood's Any Clue Akro, German Or Somthing Else? Czech: Czech Fortune Telling Marbles?, on the Bay now Czech Marbles? (pix of fortune telling marbles) Speaking Of Czech Marbles... An unseamly question....or two.... (See Post #7) Czech Bullet Mold Guineas Pre-wwii Czech. Or New Dusseldorf, Germany Bullet-molds? British: House Of Marbles Made In England? (British packaging) Portuguese: Modern German Repro? Asian: Japanese: Tiny See-through Marbles...chinese? Marble ID (See Post #19.) Japanese Marbles, Original Packaging WWW: Japanese Pinch Pontil Transitionals Interesting Glass Beads (not marbles, but I wonder if beads might ever give a clue about marble makers. perhaps some glassmaker tried both marbles and beads, but finding beads most profitable went that route for the most part and never became well known for their marbles) Pee Wee Blue Green Alley Aventurine Swirl BLUE GREEN ADVENTURINE SWIRL (Wales type in Union bag, on p. 2) Chinese (or generic "foreign" marbles assumed to be from China): Website For Marble Manufacturers In China Help Needed Here Who? What? When? Coral Marble Hong Kong, Taiwan, ... Mexican: (see the Vacor Company section) South American: Marbles From South America Canada (esp. marbles often found there): Color-base Variation See also Handmades, Transitionals and Cat's Eyes.

Speaking of guineas! Check these out! p.s. That's a fantasy box of clays from eBay seller Barbitontallucchio. (edit: I just found out that Barbiton Tallucchio is the one who makes the Zia marbles.) Auction description:

Rough draft. This section was hit hard by loss of old threads. What do you have? We'd love to see it! Marble-related collectibles: Wide-ranging displays and discussions: For The Fun Of It Pros And Cons Of Framing Marble Art, opinions and suggestions needed, please Marble bags: Old Marble Bags, anybody collect these? Tournament-related: Marble King Trophy, Berry Pink Tournament Item Marble company ephemera: Postcards: Magazines: Ephemera: Country Gentleman, Lost All His Marbles Newspapers: Stamps: Countries With Postage Stamps Of Ducks Paintings, prints, sketches: Marble Art Ot Anyone Been To The Antiques Roadshow? Figurines/Sculpture: Look Who's Going To The La Show., darn hitch hikers Other: About A Million Marbles, Ebay plug (puzzle) Someone once posted about marble themed notecards.

7-ups: (pelt rainbos)

Thanks Edna. Not my marbles. These were on eBay about three months ago. Most of the small ones look good. Mossy like you say. And some of the shooters look okay. Maybe on the plain side yet sort of like the Paul Bunyans Al showed in a bag which had the note attached saying they had come from Akro. (Here's Al's bag.) But some of them ... The blue and yellow shooters remind me of post-1990 Marble Kings, and off the top of my head I'd guess Vacor on the red/yellow ones. If they are, someone had a lot of brass pawning them off as Akros. They would have had to look around to find the matched sets of modern shooters with a sort of Akro look. Man! If I'd even contemplated backfilling a box that way, I would have lost my nerve long before I managed to complete the set. The top row of small ones look like they might be from China, even the translucent ones. maybe.

No. 300 box: (click to enlarge)

No. 15 box. Wow. A steel tray to hold the marbles. Why? (click to enlarge) Mr. Block's description:

I heard about that guy. All the boards were abuzz for weeks. For the record: (not my pix. )

Okay then. Not in the list! Thanks. There's already at least one #250 box anyway. This one would have been a bonus. The shooters on the left are the ones which seem most wrong to me. You too? I'm having my doubts about the top row of smaller ones, but it's those shooters which started me worrying.

I would feel better with another opinion before I add this to my original packaging list. Anyone here think any of these mibs look "wrong"? Or a-okay, regulation Akro all the way?

Wow. This is amazing. I had bookmarked this thread but did not realize how much information was already in it ... and now you're adding more. It keeps getting better and better! Steph

Contemporary glass artist Chris Juedemann at work: Mr. Rogers' tour of Marble King: . Marbles Discovery Channel, Jabo first and then a marble made by hand: . JVVMarbles' .Large collection of antique handmade marbles. ABC special: . GUBA: He's A Bully Charlie Brown South Jersey Video Magazine: 2006 National Marbles Championship. (Note: link is gone. I don't suppose anyone archived it?)

Fantasy bag. Popeye the Sailor Man Game Marbles. These packages are not from Jabo, but they're a common place to find Jabo marbles.

More Qualatex. 1988. Two Natashas, a Bullwinkle and a Boris. (source) Another Bullwinkle and a Rocky, front and back.

Qualatex, made in Mexico, distributed by the Pioneer Balloon Company, Wichita, Kansas. These are early Vacors. Possibly late 1980's? Galen's bag, from here.

Specials? I'm still sort of mystified by the "specials" name. Here are examples. They don't fit the current "textbook" definition of specials. That is to say, they don't look like there is any emphasis on three-color corkscrews in these sets. 1. Akro Box, any repro's of this box? shows an Akro Special No. 00 box, with an assortment of marbles. [edit: the pix are gone. I can only report that they weren't textbook specials.] 2. In Post #6 of the same thread Art mentions seeing a Special box filled with random corkscrews in 2 and 3 colors. 3. Here is a box Al showed at LOM with two-color corks and patches. 4. Here's a box belonging to Patry, with patches. 5. This peek at the Specials compartment in the Saleman's box which Galen posted in another LOM thread shows 2 color patches. 6. The marbles in this Salesman's box are out of order, but they still look as if they could be all or most of the original ones. And I don't see three-color corkscrews to put in the Specials compartment. (If they're not original, I have to wonder what was taken out since so many good ones are still there.) 7. I do have at least one other box pic labelled special, and again it has something other than three-color corks. I'll add it here when I find it again. 8-ish. And now here is a weird sorta special box Alan had for sale. It didn't say Akro Special. It said Kress-Special. That was marked out and Opals was written by hand. So, I have no idea if it "counts". But it's fun. update: 9. I've seen one more salesman sample case since I wrote this. It appears to be in very good order. The special compartment does have corks, nice ones. They are ades, popeyes and eggyolks. Still not textbook 'specials'.

Show 'em off next to some small fry. That clear one must look out of this world next to regular sized mibs. I'm picturing the ordinary little opaques staring up into it in wonderment like 8-year-olds looking up at a giant new age sculpture on their museum field trip. (lol @ fantasy)

Submarines: Circa 1911 . . (ANR) Handmade Would You Polish This One???? CAC Vitro & Cac Questions (posts #2 and #12) Shamrock Rocks (post #17) Peltier Could This Be A Peltier Sub? Any more kinds?

Some full-on views and a little more about the physical details of a box which sounds like it could be from the cache Ron found. Alan's description:

A minute ago I attempted to edit one line here. When I submitted the edited version, the contents had disappeared entirely. I shall have to start this section from scratch. This is going to be tough. Since I'm very new to handmades, I had to work hard to even figure out which categories to include the first time. DARN!