Steph

Velly, velly intellesting. Now I'll have something new to consider when a marble looks like Jabo or Vitro or Champion or even Akro and I don't recognize the colors. I'm seeing conflicting statements about dates of operation in google results. Also I didn't find much about when, where or how Mid-Atlantic marbles were distributed. But I saw that they were made for "Tiara Exclusives", a company started in 1970.

Very cool.

Well, that's very cool. As well as something vital a vintage mib-buyer should know about. Not saying it wouldn't be worth what I paid for it if I was in the market, but it's still good to be warned that if someone tries to sell me an exotic CAC with interesting gold furnace bits as a bonus feature .....

Something to think about for catching sparkle!

Anyone have info/pix on Mid Atlantic marbles they'd care to share?

At least part of it! With so few if any actual Exotic owners posting pix of the mibs, I was just hoping to get a feel for what they looked like. At least a sense of if the mibs are dazzling in their own right ... or if it is mainly the possibility of owning rare, recently discovered, minimally circulated CAC's which is the dazzling part? (P.s., thank you Brad for pointing out that example.)

So, naturally I've been curious about what exotics look like ever since I first read about them. I've not been lucky with finding photos though. It sounds like you're saying some of Mr. McCormick's could give me a fair idea?

I knew that, sue. LOL Well, at least the part about them being contemporary. I was guessing Buddy had made them actually! And that slag. Wow. All I can say is good thing it's signed. It looks like the real deal.

Really hard. Do you have these bags?

I know that pink n green has gotta be pricey. Can't even think about that. Whaddaya think that slickery mint pelt slag would be worth on today's market? What kind of moon(ie) is that big 'un?

Bumped for Newby Chris. (after you read this you may still not know what an exotic is ... but you'll have an idea why it's funny that you asked)

thanks!!

Thanks Ron for the info and Dave for the compliment! Wow, Paula. That's what I call provenance. I've downloaded that pic to help with some of the others cats in my stash.

Aha! I found it! Woo hoo! (along with a whole bunch more old friends I hadn't known I'd lost ... woo hoo what a reunion!) I can't wait until daylight to take the pix, so here the mib is, with a flash and whatever aid it gets from my dim livingroom light. Ta da! Yeah, I know. I told you. The colors are boring. But that certainly is an odd vane style. ay? P.s., if this has more than four vanes, they're hiding. (Do Anacortes cats ever have less than six vanes?)

Dave, that's what I was thinking they looked like. Andrea's gave me a serious Waitaminnit! moment though, because that sure is blade-y. (not to mention psychodelic) My mib has/had skinny blades. Mostly some blah color (olive? taupe? I can't remember colors). But the blades were edged in slivers of other colors. I think two blades may have had orange on the edge and two may have had purple. The most interesting thing about the shape of the blades is that they don't do that wide wiggly flare on the end. They almost form an O. The ends of the blades almost touch and as far as I can recall, the marble appears/appeared to have only only seam. I don't think I would have gotten rid of it. What I'm afraid of is that I may have put it in a pocket to keep it "safe" one afternoon while I was hoping the sun would break through.

Sun's gone ... and it looks like my mib is too. I've hung onto it for years ... toyed with the thought of getting rid of it in some bulk lot so I wouldn't keep worrying about it ... I thought I'd always pulled the mib back into my collection before I did anything so permanent to it. Maybe I finally let it go. ? Arrrrrrghhh

Okay. I have a mib that's hard to photograph. Not flashy but unusual. I don't think it looks all that much like a horseshoe, but it sure doesn't look like anything else I've seen. I didn't want to spend time trying to capture its innards if no one reading had anacortes experience. Looks like you do though, so I'll try to get a decent pic while the sun's out.

Anacortes is Vitro, right? And the horseshoe cat eye was a cage style, right? No blade style vanes, right?

Incredible!

Be sure you keep that in mind ...

Straight from a Christensen box! Wow!

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Hi Carole! Could I buy/borrow any of that to see it in hand? (buy if you are interested in selling, borrow if you really want to keep it but wouldn't mind parting with it temporarily ) (I'll pay shipping in either case!) My first priority is learning more about the white, but with so many blue base and green base and red ribbon mibs abounding from all makers it would be very cool to see those shades too.

anyone have a couple of beat-up but certifiable cac's they could bear to part with for under $20? pieces would do! I keep reading about how you gotta see cac white in person to really know it, and then you'll wonder how you could ever have mistaken it ... or something like that. I really want to have that experience !!! but so far whenever I've looked for samples from online sources I trust, they've been selling stuff way out of my price range. (calling it a price range is actually giving it too much credit that's why I collect cats) looking for the pathetically pleading but not annoying emoticon ... can't find it .... darn

Curiouser and curiouser. Holly, your marbles all look vintage, or at least potentially so. (Some of the cats and clearies could be newer, but we have no particular reason to think so.) So, if the Czech mib is newer, it is out of context in that way. But it is already out of context in another way, because no matter its age, it is not a common marble, and the rest of your mibs look like a nice, solid, but not exotic set. And whereas the seller of the Czech mib lot currently on eBay has credibly (and refreshingly) claimed they are modern, Marble Alan knows glass pretty darn well himself and he should also be able to judge some things about a mib's origin from the person who consigned them to him for sale, and he ball-parked his similar mibs at around the same era you estimate your mib to be from. So, the clues here are pointing every which way! Curiouser and Curiouser.