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Base ball marble point game ( Skip Ball )
Chad G. replied to Chad G.'s topic in Marble Runs & Marble Games
I took a closer pic of the playing field , fora better look. Oop! I'll taka a better lit one of the score area, The edit tonremove the pic isn't working right now -
Man This hide out is "killer" where's everybody at This is one of the best places to share on the whole forum Just look at all the grade "A' No. 1, cutting edge facts you learn here, not to mention the stand alone comedy. Isn't this the place we all get to really know each other ??. Some great stuff, a place for us all to cut loose Hyyahhh !! Well since I was reminiscing over old times, I thought about the Father of the dog I have now. His name was Buddy, his son the marble partner I have now I named Tubby, A picture of each so you can see how much Father looks like son. The Good Father Buddy The King & his Queen, a happy man. What do you mean why am I standing here!! " I am human " am I not ?? "The Good Father" Time for Dad to teach Sonny the ropes. Tubby all grown up 1/2 of the "deceptive duo" look at that face, like father, like Son, right now he's waiting to help me "hide" I mean clean and sort mibs. With friends like this, who needs enemies ?? No wonder I have 2 or 3 of everything, they hide them faster than I can buy them. Happy New Year From Me, Tubby & Sissy !! I already know their resolutions, to eat more food & hide more mibs from me than they did last year, truly a dogs life !! Honestly what would I do without my kids ??
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Friday is almost over, Here are some pictures from "mibbage's" old site ( Chad Cline & Charles Williams ) the site has been gone for 5 or 6 years now ?? but I saved several pix of marbles they sold including original packaging also. Here are some Akro boxes for you to look at, Thank you "Mibbage" for the great pictures of marble history.
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Man, the clean machine, musta hit that one with the power washer !! Good symmetry for what it is I got alot of doubles, nice and even, ones almost round at nearly 1" and clean just like yours, believe it or not it's a volcano, a perfectly named mib, frac city. I got some great mibs, absolutely no complaints here, I should've purchased more. They sure look good in those flats." Nice Heaton Ron" I like the abstract ones, I got a barbell also, I know I need to submit more pix.
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Sure is fun to grow em around here they die outside ☠️ we trimmed it till it wouldn't fit in the house and was gettin a little ugly, never did get an avocado 🥑They have those little orange trees you can grow inside, I wish they would hurry up on the avocados. Oh sorry!! Hi tiny Can't leave the little feller out. Good start on the resolutions Steph, bringin some new life into the world
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That's what the bags are for Since we'll all be moving a little slower 🐢 we need to be incognito to get into those hard to reach spots. Maybe a little dieting before hand for some of us ?? Gotta be in tip top shape 💪 to get away from the marble police 🚓 !! You all know I'm just kiddin and well aware of the digging situation, almost everywhere there is left to dig has a fence and a stiff fine or is just plain on private property. Either that or it's under pavement or concrete, therefore inaccessible. That's why I grabbed up on them Heaton, not only some very cool mibs but historically just about the bottom of the barrel as far as digging goes. You might get away with it if you are young and fast and don't mind going to jail, myself those days are long since past. I'll sit here and clean Heatons off, plenty of time to do it right now. Stay safe and "keep em rollin "
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I've lost track of what's posted and not so I'll go to a favorite store and post some of their goodies for a little Friday night Akro education. I haven't smoked in over 12 years but still enjoy the glass, I have some tabbed ashtrays but that's it, here's a little variety for all you Akrozoners. Short tabbed, shown in oxblood An Akro black amethyst Hamilton match puller ashtray A very early Akro agate ashtray, check out the early embossing on this one. The embossing on the bottom "AA" Akro Agate, a very plain but rare ashtray Akro hexagonal design The dreaded Akro ellipsoid, even the name is cool At 1 1/4" tall these thumb pot are tiny, I have 2 of them one is already pictured and is uv. The rarest 2 colors are black & amethyst, the little dimple in the bottom is a knockout if you want a plant in it, used for a water drain. Every size had these. I better slip in a few mibs just to make it legal. An egg yolk ox an imperil cork I can't believe it Steph, I got rid of a double post, deleted it completely. peter piper pic...... never mind I bet I could never pull that one off again !!
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Oop ! I thought it was Sat. Lost one somewhere there. Here's a dome I bought at an antique store for $20.00. It was full of thimbles being that's what it was designed for in the first place. You can see the little upraised bumps between the mibs, I just put rubber o rings in between each thimble holding bump and I was in business. I ran into another One at an estate sale, also full of thimbles, the same amount of shelves but a little bigger in diameter $ 30.00 this time after they took out the thimbles. I Googled these and $75.00 each, plus mine rotate and te ones for sale didn't, a nice set of displays at 1/3 of the price. I have since went to flats and wall mounts for space reasons.
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Maybe you, me, and your swat team could plan one more assault some day!! if there's a place left to hit ?? Gonna need a backhoe and some dyno 💣
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Amen to the memories Ron, my main driving force, making "new Friends" and "new memories" the marbles are just extra icing on the cake.
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"Thank you Ron" Yes the generations ahead of us seem to leave something to be desired in the respect, work ethic, and moral departments. Believe me I earned every penny I ever got, hard earned and well spent for the most part, a few frivolous extravagancies and that's it. I left home the day I turned 15, my Father said if I didn't like it there I could leave and that I did. I worked for my uncle for room and board putting cedar shingles on roofs and siding. We split the shingles from cedar bolts by hand using a hammer and a frow. Hard, hard work, and just to earn my keep, daylight to dark every day until each job was finished. Joined the Navy when I was 17 and that was that. Oh ! I remember what you told me they used to put on the floors to prevent the hot glass from starting fires in the old factories, information gathered on either forum sticks to my in my brain like glue. Eager to learn and also wipe out any wrong thinking I may have learned in the last 30 some years. I love this hobby and love to share what I have learned with others. Nothing brings me greater pleasure than getting off a forum knowing I have helped someone just as interested as me. I wish I would have lived a little closer to all the action as you do. I know for sure I would have been involved in some fashion. Probably a factory worker, I like hard work, the days go by swiftly and you know every penny was earned. " Anything worth doing is worth doing right " a motto I try my best to live by. A lucky man you are Ron, doing what you love to do as a job. I loved my last job ship fitting so lucky as well. I believe the last dime store I went to was almost all toys and such, called Bonanza 88, shut down when I was very young, a dream world for me, my folks had to pry me out of there. Chad G.
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Nice Akro ware Bill ( Hope ya had a great new years ), and the matchin cullet too. Wish I had the cullet to go with mine, course I didn't get to go on them midnight raids on the old Akro plantation Aargh !! I like the shaded pumpkin, ox, as well as the regular pumpkin
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Hope you all had a great and safe new years.
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Some old ads for the New Year. I am adding dates by year so the pictures may have changed in particular order. 1905 salesman's catalog 1905 regular catalog
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Take it from me, you can "count" on having a " Happy New Year " Even though it seems to "suck" right now ! Ah Ah Ahhh !!
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I always get to suffer a little longer than anyone else, I'm only 48 mi. from the Pacific ocean
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I was only kidding Deanna, but since you've offered " Thank You " I do need some wet mint, hvy. ox coverage, 11/16ths or larger patches, or if you have any wet ones with just an oxblood patch. Just let me know what you want to trade for and I'll see what I can do. 90 % of my mibs are 9.8 wet mint, I've been culling for about 5 years now, I had to sell my 20 some year collection during a divorce in 09, one of the least treasured moments in my life, watching 22 yrs of collecting go to auctions and Ebay Ah well all uphill from here, that water went under the bridge and hit the ocean long ago. I like Pelts, Alley, Germans, Akro, Master, MK, Vitro, Heaton, Cairo, and Contemps. in that order. I do have more Pelts and Germans than anything, Oh! alot of HEATON as you seen some of the pix on the thread I started. We can trade pix and come to an equitable trade for both of us. One good thing is we don't have to pay Ebay or Pay Pal fee ( ONE IN THE SAME ) they just have the two different names to bilk more cash out of you, it's like Remember when Ebay and the web started, FREE COMERCE YAY !! and then it was over. I look forward to some pics, Jess got a killer clip on macro for her cell, it's posted somewhere here on MC, I'll find it for you and repost, better pix than my camera, a great investment, I think under $40.00, take a look at her pix, killer with just that little clip on addition, she uses a maglite for her lighting I couldn't believe it you won't either after you see her pix, she has a bunch on "Akro Friday" her avatar is Disco005 you'll see her there and me as well, don't forget to post on "Happy Akro Friday" on Friday ( Tomorrow ) under the header "General Marble Glass Chat" Later. Chad G.
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Ahh !! Nice bowl and mibs You obviously have to many I wants me cut After all, that's what this forum is all about "sharing" rite ??
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