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1 hour ago, wvrons said:

 No no, Please don't call me king of marbles.  I just decided many years ago to learn WV swirls. My location in WV was the biggest advantage in that. In the center of where all the WV swirls were produced. I was also lucky enough and close enough to spend many hours, some 12-16 hours straight both days and nights at Jabo over many years.  Eight or ten years even before the investor runs began. Watching. listening, and asking millions of questions of any one there who would talk to me. Even the women who did the packaging. A job I could have never done. I saw a lot of people come and go at Jabo. Some were there from the start. The combination of those two were my biggest factors in learning about marbles. The marble shows and experienced collectors were my next teachers. But I soon found out that some of what I heard there was not what I had been told and seen. But it was all they knew at the time. The one single person who started me with collecting marbles and has kept me with it through different difficult times is Sammy Hogue. He took his time, he made me work for all of it. He directed me to every source of WV swirls and also to Jabo.  Sammy give me the clues and I went searching and asking. Even when he knew the answers well and was friends with most all of them who helped me.  

There are many people who know as much and more about marbles than myself. Many are gone now but several are still here and some newer collectors are doing their searching now. Maybe many of those just do not pass along the info they know as much as I do ? Many of them seldom use the internet. Plus it is a lot of time. Some have told me a waste of time. But if that is so, then a lot of people wasted a lot of years with me.  So that they did not waste their time, I pass it along. That is the only thing they ever ask of me. So you will just have to put up with me telling you what they told me or my experiences with marbles. 

Not any king just a messenger.  The messenger reserves the right to be wrong. 

It’s never a waste of time if you enjoy it!   I’ve only been on this site for a few days and I’ve learned a ton!   Thank you for passing on your knowledge.  I build surfboards and a lot of builders don’t pass on what they know and it’s sad.   I don’t know why they are that way, but that’s just how some are.   I could sit and listen or watch for hours just soaking up every bit on information.    

Here are others that I assume are from the Aquarius run.  

1 hour ago, Gladys said:

So I reached out to /  Jeff Theobald, AKA columbusrockhound  and he believes it is a part of Aquarius run ! he event sent a picture of a box he has! amazing!! bite my tongue on that one! never a dull moment! 

Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks for the help. From what there is online of Aquarius runs I think that’s it.

3 hours ago, Nantucketdink said:

JABO Aquarius Run.  These ones were the most interesting patches in that run.  

Thank you!   

1 hour ago, Steph said:

I too am leaning toward Vitro Tri-Lite.

 

Estimate 1930's on the date whether it turns out to be Vitro or something else such as Akro. 

Thanks,  your knowledge of marbles is impressive.

6 hours ago, Chad G. said:

"WELCOME to MARBLE CONNECTION TERANCE"     

  Good people having great fun while we all share what we know, learn & enjoy this great hobby at the same time. "Again" glad to have you on board !!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Chad G.

Thanks Chad!  

I’m new to collecting and have been hunting estate sales for marbles.  Any help with ID would be