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Sorry Griff, I don't eat fish. They stink to tell you the truth.

I want my own forum for all the "deleted" and "edited" posts that should be allowed to stay on here. Oh, and one for dead fish too.

Sweet!

Hey Carl, Happy Birthday! Wish you the best!

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I too have noticed a significant decline in the prices of MK's on fee-bay. Now is a good time to buy IMHO.

Great score Brad!

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Defineatly cool! I have never seen another either. Neat piece!

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Cool...a six month old thread revived for no apparent reason....

Dug Akro fo' sho'.

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Thanks Kevin.

I wouldn't even think anout doing anyone wrong Roger. You really should keep that one forever!

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Darla, if and when you come to Baker....be sure to get ahold of Bev and I. We can look at mibs over a steak at the corner or something. LOL

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Roger, I promise I would send your avatar back! Heck, you have pictures of it...thats all you need isn't it.

Memories.....LOL

Its amazing in hand Roger. If I ever make it to Texas, I'll bring it with me. I would send it there for you to look at, but I am scared it would like the weather down there! LOL

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Bought as an Alox, but believed by many to be Alley. Beautiful!

5/8 in size.....and mint

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5/8 in size. True 5 color cork.

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thats a beauty! When are you gonna post groups and let folks buy them again! I missed out last time and only got to read about it.....

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An alley flame, a CAC guinnea, and a Czech corkscrew. Its hard to pick just a couple with clear. LOL

Here is a sampling of Patry's work. Please, if anyone feels that the line has been crossed in anyway by posting these, then let me or a mod know and we will remove them. They are tryly amazing works!

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Yes, sad indeed. What a lady! I will also echo the previous comments about her artwork. For those that have not yet seen any of her work, its a must. Her marble art is amazing! I have some jpegs of her art. Would it be OK to share them on here for others to see her talent?

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I must have missed something, where does it say whos box this is?

So I'm still on the fence about this one.

If workers would mix different colors into specific color-labelled boxes as needed, mightn't they be adaptable and put blue corks in a blue-labelled box?

Seems like a possibility.

If backfilled, when might the filling have occurred?

Things I wonder about ... :-)

Why not a Prizename box? Backfilling can happen any time. I have thought about dumping my Pelt box and backfilling it for display purposes and retaining the originals to put back in. Nothing shady on my part. Then there are the people who backfill to get more cash out of something. Who cares really. If you are educated, you can decide for yourself and buy or not buy. If the pricce was right, (for example) I would by the "blue" box dump the cheesy corks and refill with Akro game marbles. I have a full set of known Akros to fill it. IMHO

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thanks for showing that. I've only seen the ones that have 60 marbles. Edna

Those are the "Chinese Checkers" sets. These are stock boxes and most commonly found with an assortment of colors despite what the end stamp reads. I believe the boxes contained the "proper" colors at one time, but were likely jumbled at the factory proir to shipping. A worker could pull 6 boxes of each color and mix them into a box and ship them out. Therefore, the box would have a single color stamp (such as black on mine) but an assortment of colors within.

IMHO

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Here is my 100 count game marble (opaque) box. Notice that mine says "black".

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Thats the type of box the opaques come in, is it not?

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Here is my "large" candy. 1 3/8" with mica. Gotta love the handmades.

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