William Marbles

Hey dog, what's the one by the largest red one to the right, dark red?? Great pic btw!!!

I've seen aquariums do this to mibs. Final polish or (buffing) usually will bring them back to life.

Hey Chris, well after an hour search (last bag in the box) I found them. 15 in all, all came together in a vintage lot. --i didn't wipe them off--- send me an email. all for one price +1/2" to -11/16, factory mint 1 has the typical peltier blowout remember I thought these were Koko's. William

Nice Roger and Bob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's a few more that was gettting ready to get bagged for storage. Check out the face below the butterscotch one...LOL The poke-a-dotted one my not be one of these types...???.. It's not developed right anyway, so it stays there. I'm glad I'm not the only one stashin' some away for the future. William

There's a pic over on BuyMarbles.com imperials Thanks Craig for saving the pic, I lost that on a HD failure. (my small collection back then)

Those are nice!! I have a big stash of them as well. Some with aventurine, some moonie like, and some that are very smooth, and lots of different colors. These very well may be sleepers of the future. As for age.....I have no idea. Imperial Toy Company There's a link....but firefox isn't working right for me on the history screen.

Thanks Craig!!! That's a nice looking board. I have added that to my wish list for the future. William here's some history of the game for those interested. History

Honest mistake, Craig. I just wondered was all. I have the pic's from the New Philly show, I wonder why all those boxes have tape on them... Do the other Vitro boxes you have seen have the tape as well??? Thanks, William

Why are the fantasy boxes in the pre-1970 category?

Hey Craig, you have one of his boards to show????? Never seen one of his yet. Thanks, William

Here's my bag. The Game of Chinker-Chek The following was pieced together from various newspaper articles recently received on the life of Lawrence W. Brown and his invention of Chinker-Chek. Lawrence W. Brown of Brown manufacturing company, Clinton, Missouri, experimented with a variation of Chinese chess starting in 1935. The game he came up with allowed one to six players to be involved. In 1937 sales of this new game were limited to the Midwest and western states. At that time, Ohio was the furthest state to the East that was supplied. The boards were manufactured by Brown manufacturing company while the marbles used on the boards came in 100 lb. cartons and by the car load from one of the marble companies in West Virginia. At one point Brown manufacturing was turning out 4,000 Chinker-Chek boards a day. The game board was manufactured with a patent pending but they were unable to obtain a full patent, for some unstated reason. When the 7 year patent pending period ran out, other toy companies began making the game. Chinker-Chek is more commonly known as Chinese checkers. Mr. Brown was born in 1881, East of Clinton, Mo. and died tragically in a gas explosion at his factory on April 4, 1960.

Here's some that are often forgotten about..... Horsehair Oxbloods.........thinking Champion/Alley's made them. Pretty sure the center is a Road n' Tunnel CA w/Oxblood shoulders GREAT OXBLOOD examples everyone!!!!!!!!!! Supernice stuff.. -William

Here you go! Japanese Pinchers Thread at Marble Mental Bottom pic in thead show's yours. This should be helpful to ya!!!!

This one is a keeper

Me too, with a nice 6 side shot of one of the mibs inside. Maybe a back lit one as well.

Any of the High end collectors have a box of these to show off??? With some detail pic's?

Hmmm, Thanks Alan. But what color shoud it florece? One on left is bright green. But the other two have Pink/orange/red shade and "purple, btw; is the first time I've ever seen a black light make this color. " Good tip! What about electric yellow slag's? Mine glow a great yellow under UV.

Ok, you guys made me open my display table.... First let me say this, these are not my normal format for pic's trying something new..... With that said....let's see some bricks.. Purple Brick. red and white and I'll throw this one in as well, if you notice the cut mark......green..but this is a slag. (i was getting a reflection on the right column, sorry) Enjoy....

Hey Clyde, I'll take a stab at this... Both are 6 panel End-of-Day Onionskin-English Style. Nice one's I might add... reference 2002 Antique Glass End-of-Day Marbles, Page 96

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