smitty

Hi Gary, it's called the "Foxfire" run, not to be confused with firefox. The run was just done on May 14th by myself, Brian Estepp, Lee Linne, Frank Miller, Mike Meade, Russ Kasmar, Paul Kasmar, Steve Olenick, and Rick Hall. I am still going through my share and these are the nicest out of any runs I was involved with earlier, we were trying for brighter colors and achieved our goal. Some look like they are on fire, bright oranges and yellows with flames and some oxblood! I'm sure you will be hearing more about them in the next few weeks. We also did a tank wash the day before. I sent some to bocci to post pics on the boards. I only know of one other run later this month, it all started in May of 2008 and could very well end in May of 2009. What a year!

That's the concept, I've traveled to too many auctions where you end up bidding against absentee bidders or internet bids and you have no idea if those bids are legit. Also, we want people to examine the marbles in hand before they bid and don't want to get involved with mailing them out, waiting for payments to arrive, unhappy purchases etc. Like I said, just a good old fashioned marble auction, they bid and we hand them the marble, and it's done. Every lot sells, even if it is 1 cent!

Rumor has it that there will be plenty of parking lot "marble trading"

Did you notice his early 1900 clay marbles! And his Vitro 8-fingers! Check his other auctions. LOL

Congratulations Burt! Those are spectacular! Can't wait to get my hands on some!

Bob, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Champion, because of the absence of aventurine, the pattern and the metallic stripe. Smitty

In my opinion, that is a rare box and most of the value would be in the box, not necessarily the marbles. However the box is in extremely poor condition, kind of like a rare marble in really bad shape, hard to sell.

i think I fixed it, try again. thanks

We have been working to put together a good old fashioned monthly marble auction and it is finally going to happen. No absentee bids, No internet bids, No buyers premium, No reserves, all sells to the highest bidder! This is our first and we already have consignments set up for many more, including an enormous collection from Illinois (probably in June) This first auction is Sunday May 3rd here is the info http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/auctionv...&category=0

Thanks for the update! I was getting tired of checking the schedule. Figured they didn't think it was dirty enough! LOL

Dan Grocki ! LOL

I'm checking in on wed. Looking for unusual Peltiers, selling some other nice marbles! Smitty

Kevin, Just to clarify, I don't know who your friend is, but I never saw those marbles at New Philly and I would have never called them CAC, they are obviously Champion. However, I am honored to know that someone would use my name in order to make a sale! LOL

We made those marbles in the wee hours of the morning right at the end of our run, if I remember correctly, only Brian Estepp, Bill Tow, J.H. Miller, and myself were still awake! The "S" is for Smitty. LOL I have some empty ACE boxes, 6 count and 9 count if anyone is interested. By the time my boxes came, I was sold out of Aces to put in them! (Except, of course, my keepers)

Before the show began on Saturday morning, Richard Goddard from Indiana received a message to call home, his mother had passed away. The cool thing is, she lived in Ohio and because he was here for the show he was able to visit with her on Friday! She was 105 years old.

Between the New Philly show in Ohio and the bead show in Arizona this week, many people may not be back at their computers yet and/or are still resting from the marble mayhem!

A bunch of us are taking a tour of the Warther Museum on friday morning, it is only a few miles from the hotel. here is their website www.warthers.com And we are only 20 minutes away from the heart of the largest Amish Community. You might google Holmes County Ohio for more info. New Philadelphia is in Tuscarawas County, Ohio

There is only one Holiday Inn in New Philadelphia, and the address is bluebell dr. s.w. Just got home from the hotel, (monday) there were already 6 people there, more coming on tuesday. Anytime from wed. thru sat. will be heavy trading and the weather forcast is good! We now have 81 rooms reserved.

The Eagles were a very succesful run! Lots of variety and very colorful combinations. One of the top special runs in my opinion. Plus, they will be on an upcoming episode of "Dirty Jobs" with host Mike Rowe I don't sell on ebay, and have posted on the boards that I have them available at very realistic prices, yet not one person responded to me through the boards! I was selling them at the Indy show and they sold like hotcakes! I will also be selling them this coming week at New Philly. If you want to purchase some, simply contact me. I traded some with Edna through the mail, and she can assure you of the quality. I will not be online next week because I will be running the New Philly show. You can reach me before monday or after Feb. 7th at [email protected]

The last time I checked with the Holiday Inn there were 71 rooms reserved! People are arriving as early as monday, and coming in on "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"! I'll be checking in on wednesday, but will be down at the hotel all week.

Thinking back, before we were getting bold striping colors and oxblood, we did get a few with less color, each person only got a few of them. So, I would consider it one of those "ugly but scarce" marbles.

Doesn't look like any Aces that I have, might be the marbles from the beginning of the run if they even are Aces.

I'll be arriving sometime thursday. Looking for nice Peltiers. Smitty

Cool, I'll be arriving at the hotel on wed. July 16th, I'm really looking forward to the show!

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