Chad G.

And the gang mentality approach !! A few more pistachio's a calligraphy some what I call lemon meringue's and a few dozen more common alley's next time I load my new pic's, hopefully w/ some new bulb's in the near future, getting tired of lugging my mib's and all my camera junk outside every time I take photo's. These indoor pic's really leave something to be desired.

Some more ??? Only the second alley red monochrome I've ever seen. nice flame pattern on it, have to wait for my new bulb's to get better pic's, most definitely alley, a classic pattern. These picture's just don't do these mib's any justice.

A couple of hard to find alley pee-wee's. Both below the .50" mark, true pee-wee's. Not what people call a pee-wee now,( almost always over a bit, not a pee-wee at all just a small marble )

I love the spruce collection, those big one's are real boglers. I should have held onto the other five I had, not as much aventurine but as you said everyone like's alley now. When I started collecting it was all about Christensen and German's hardly anyone collected Alley. I guess because they where so common then. Now try and find a nice black lutz or a good spruce, calig. or what have you ( not there ) Glad I held onto what I have now and regret selling what I did. Mostly not happy about the mib's I lost during the divorce. What a bummer, oh well no crying over spilt milk, The hunt goes on. "Thank's for the nice pic's Ron"

Thought you might like these pic;s Ron !! The big sturgeon isn't mine but I did catch one a little longer in the estuary, just over 12.5 feet, the boat was only 14', the fish pictured was caught near Bonneville dam, you could never hold an estuary fish like they are, the diamond's ( spike's ) on it's back and side's would cut you to ribbon's. The last pic is my baby Brother who passed in 2014. All these where caught in the Columbia river, including the sturgeon

Thank's for the link Al, I don't as of yet have a Facebook account but your offer is very enticing.

Thank's for the new and current info Al, learning as we go is good medicine.After my time in the Navy I and my Wife lived in Warrenton until the late 80's working @ a place I think you'll remember, Point Adam's Packing, a now long defunct seafood processing plant. My wife of 10 year's passed in 95 of cancer. I moved back to Rainier and began working at Foss maritime in Rainier as a welder building tugboat's, last job before becoming disabled. I appreciate the new info and thank you for sharing about your location's, your only an hour or two from me, man what a small, small world we live in.

! remember when Alan died in 2012, He was born the same year I was, it was a sad time for me, as he was someone I always aspired to.Thank you Steph.

Two view's of an alley lutz swirl, one of the cleanest alley's I have and a favorite of mine ( I'm beginning to believe they're all my favorite's ) forgive the fuzziness in the second photo, I must have moved a little bit.

Almost there @ 23/32nd's a metallic alley swirl, w/ copper and iron looking banding clear around the mib, when I can capture it a little better I'll resubmit this pic.

Not the most spendy but very beautiful alley spruce w/ an extra busy pattern, the only one I kept of 5. ( definitely not the brightest move I ever made )

One of my best sulphide's, a common but xtra clean and wet with very minimal air entrapment figure of a pig, not huge but an average size of exactly 1 1/2 "

One you don't see every day, a yellow glass coreless swirl, @ 29/32nd's

This is my wettest mica, a common green but no pitting, pullout's, scratches or pocket wear a nice 1.13 inches, excellent mint + shape for a mib this size and age. someone must have forgotten about it for a long time.

Here's a handful of smaller German's

These are my favorite German's next to lutz, joseph coats, nothing like the ones I used to have but getting there. plus some ribbon lutz marble's. I found a few more when I was going through my mib's that I didn't even know I had.

beat me to it

Keep the pic's comin Ron, I can always save them even if i can't get the packaging.

Sound's as if we have more than 1 thing in common. I still have about 1/3 of the pic's from the old collection I had before my divorce, I don't really like looking at them but have them none the less. The last time I seen any orig. packaging besides cat eye bag's was the box I got with the chinker check board I bought, still have the board you seen, and mib's but the box took a walk ?? Leaves me w/ 0 packaging except for the lone game bag and repro box. Collector's that are lucky enough to still have packaging aren't letting it go, as I suppose I wouldn't either.

And what a lucky man you are, most excellent, I especially like the alley's being one of my two favorite's, I know I won't see that box anywhere else. I had s few different assorted boxes of mib's in the past but all gone in the ensuing divorce I went through. All the more challenging and fun to try and play catch up. If I can ever find them again ??

Wish I had a fresh minty box of each in one of my curios Bill. "Yum Yum delicious"

Don't stop now !!

KEEP em comin Chuck , You got a hungry boy here !!!

Seen em before I was confused by the coral color and seam so I paid them no never mind. Like I said, I throw away nothing mint anymore, a lesson hard learned. By the way nice pic's and thank you for sharing yet another tidbit of knowledge, though I'll probably never see them again I'll certainly not pass them up. Regards, Chad G.

I understand wvrons is a fisherman ??? Maybe I'll drop him a pic or two.