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Here are some examples of Mike's Lost Your Marbles JABO Classics

My main interest in the early Imperial packaging came about just recently because of unknown Vacors. There are some late 70s packages with made in Mexico marbles in them which seem like they would have Vacors in them. The opaque patch type marbles look more like Asian made patches than later Vacor patches, but they have to be Vacors, right?. Does anybody know if there was another non-vacor Mexican machine made marbles producer in the late 70s? I know many consider these marbles total garbage, but I still like a mystery wherever I may find one

There are some Anacortes Vitro Classics in there along with some JABO Classics. Neither are very old, but you have some fun marbles to sort by maker and/or location hiding in there too

my bad, vintage 08

yes JABO

yes I believe you are correct

This one is good. Mexican marbles not cats

1977

1983 packaging

Probably a big Vacor Orca

The Veiliglas wirepulls are nice

Its not like the few 3/4"-7/8" range shooter size Vitro Anacortes Classics were much earlier. There are only a few of them and it just isn't documented what year exactly between 1988 and 1992 they were made (as far as I know). They do not resemble the 5/8" Anacortes Classics anyway. Sure the marble could be an earlier Vitro, just not an earlier Anacortes Vitro.

All of the 5/8" range Vitro Anacortes Classics were made in one run in 1991 or 1992.

I didn't really pay attention to this type of marble until a month ago. MarbleAlan's site has some pretty great info I obviously basically skipped including advertisements possibly showing machine mades. It looked to me like it may have been G. Kuhnhert who made them instead of Seppenhutte. I need to read and look it over some more.

Great info!

H.E. Hopf Marble Factory (Spielwarenfabrik) was/is in Coburg Germany per the Greenberg book. I have no clue about when they began in Germany.