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*Edit* Steph can you please copy this and repost so the pics will work until we figure out why my pics won't post anymore? While digging 4 feet down at the Heaton factory, this came up in my shovel. I almost tossed it but it had those rounded corners and I thought, "that looks like a marble pouch", so I grabbed it. Sure enough, it still has print on it. It says Big Shot marbles int he center, as we know Heaton used for their logo, and above that it says "To Open Cut Here" then "To Make Pouch - Punch Holes" and then "Insert Strings". Then below the logo it says M.F.G. By Heaton Agate Company Pennsboro West Virginia. Ron confirmed it is an unknown type bag. The bag is not seamed together well. I'm not sure if that's why it was tossed, or if they never could get it to work right and it was an abandoned project, or if it's a type of bag that was marketed. Either way, it's a rare bag and pretty decent considering it's been buried for 70 years. There was a seagrams 7 bottle unearthed in the hole with it, dated 1951.

Trying again for the heck of it: [img]https://i.ibb.co/B2BpQ4t/Copy-of-Presentation-Untitled-Design-49.jpg[/img]

No, I'm copying them from IMGBB and pasting them here. It works on other sites, just not this one.

I'm posting pics the same way I have for years but now it just shows the address to the pic, not even clickable. Steph copied my links and posted them and the pics showed up fine for her, why not when I do it? Something has changed. Trying again now. [img]https://i.ibb.co/BCY9hT0/DSC06301.jpg[/img]

I agree with Al. All Alleys in the top group.

*Edited, pics working now*

Here are some more combos

Pelt MCR/MCS

Thanks Steph, not sure what's going on. At least you got them to show up.

That is one top shelf Master! Love it. Master did use a fair amount of purple and lavender. Here are some examples from my collection for comparison: [img]https://i.ibb.co/0pbbLFW/Copy-of-Copy-of-Untitled-Design-45.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/0fBt1y0/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Presentation-Untitled-Design-2019-08-16-T012246-720.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/nCL8MhY/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Presentation-Untitled-Design-2019-08-16-T012448-189.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/Y8GM1Xp/masterade.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/Q650QXz/DSCN5114.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/Ytsg4xy/DSCN5086.jpg[/img] Edit... why don't my photo links work here anymore?

Starting at 12:00 and going clockwise, I would say Alley, Champion, Champion, Alley, and Heaton.

I agree with Master. Those are about as close to red as I have ever seen for a Master Brushed patch. I'm holding on to the hope that one exists somewhere.

My understanding is that they were only taken home by workers and such, not marketed to the public by Champion (because of all the fractures which equate to inferior marbles).

The first marble is not a furnace type. It is a late champion, not a hot wheels but part of the same family. It's called a red cloud. #4 on this ordering list. This photo I believe is David Chamberlain's if I remember right.

Doubtful

And a clambroth, smoky grey pelt, several CACs, nice haul!

Some Sistersvilles:

It never ends, something new, something unknown. Thanks for the info!

Fun fun!

More Heatons, for the sake of knowing:

A couple more. A nice trilite and the best Easter egg I've found so far.

Few more

Not really any crazy story on it Steph other than they were cheap, someone listed them for sale on ebay BIN and I grabbed them, amazed that nobody else beat me to it. There were a ton of Masters and other nice Vitros with them. I found lots of yellow brushed patch masters in the lot too and yellow brushed patches are HTF. Thanks Stephen! Some I wasn't familiar with either. Here are some other vitros from the lot and a group shot of the Masters (couple champions mixed in) just because they were all in the same lot and I think they help lend a hint as to the time frame of the Vitros. Pretty sure these marbles have been stored together since they were new. Almost all are dead mint other than as mades and virtually unplayed with.

And a couple of cosmic rainbow shooters I recently got. One is just amazing to me. both ~7/8"