Al Oregon

Thanks for sharing!

A few bags with peewees...

Japan Art Sphere Calendars

Alley peewees - top two rows

Tough one. Here is a picture of Nancy's display of Alox but hard to tell if there are any patches there. Also a picture of a mesh bag where two in the upper right could be patches. And, picture of a poly bag with 5 shooters, 4 patches, but could very well be a "filled" bag. I have some other bags with obvious filled marbles like MK cat's-eyes and patches (although Alox could have bought the marbles and packaged them - seems like there have been stories about the purchases).

The Vacor (Mega) Spaghetti/Streamers were thinner ribbons and I don't show them ever having an orange. Attached is a picture I had saved from 1999 that showed some Champion wirepulls.

Thanks, Edna.

Is anyone familiar with this 2003 time frame project that these three marble artists did? I've had someone contact me about this project.

And, here is a Jackson mesh bag with Playrite marbles that, if I remember correctly, came from Mike Johnson who got it from the lady that owned Playrite.

Here is a Jackson mesh bag that I got from Chuck B. some years back and some close-ups

A quick P.S. to the above. Ron Shepherd has done a great job in getting information out to us via the marble forums from digging that he, Bill, Nola and others have done over the last 10+ years. But, look at the several times where he has had to correct himself from something he said in the past on ID's, etc. Do we criticize him? No way! That is what is great that Ron (and others) recognize that information changes as more research has been done but they still put it out there when they think they have new information. I can't say enough about the work that Ron has done and the knowledge provided to the community. And the same for anyone who has had the time and courage to put out a book on marbles!

I agree with Steph. I like all marble books since it means that someone took the time to write them and put the available knowledge "at that time" into print. Things change all the time. It's only been 20 years since machine made marbles even became collectible. And, no company really kept any records on what they did. The Peltier paperwork seems to be one that has some information but that information has not been published or even widely shared with the marble community. Mike Johnson (helped by Suzie & Dean) spent many years researching information about the marble companies and interviewed a lot of the old-timers from the marble companies before they passed on. Their book is considered one of the best for history. Bob's (and Stan's) books drummed up a lot of interest in marble collecting and were basically the only thing out there for years, especially with price guides (and remembering because of the publishing company slow process, those prices were "wrong" before the book came out - but they were something we did not have before). Marlow & Larry's cat's-eye book and marble collecting books were good reference sources. Everett Grist attempted to get some information out in books and there were others (Baumann, Webb, Barrett) that came out with books during that time frame. So, please don't be critical of people who at least attempt to get information out to the marble community, whether it is for commercial gain or providing information on marbles and marble collecting. Thank them for their effort!!

That's cool to find local (somewhat) fellow marble collectors (or at least sellers).

Thanks - interesting about some of the countries receiving marbles.

Here's Ric picture of one I gave him at the Texas Show a few years ago for helping ID a bunch of WV swirls and one of the boxes of Ravenswoods ID'd by him.

Great variety!

The Jay Leno Superman!!!

Yes, a lot of fun and always great to renew acquaintances and make few new ones.

Here's the Champion "brain" type swirl - forget the Ravenswood notation in the picture.

Here's a nice group that Guy had posted back in 2002.

I'll sell one at half price and include s/h! I sent him a nice email explaining the difference between NLR and common Rainbos - we'll see.

Cool pics. I used to collect those when I first started but ended up selling them to Bert Cohen.

I have three of the ones like yours (all with yellow mesh) and all have swirls that are probably Alley. I also have 4 others that are a little larger bag with a different header and they all seem to have Peltiers in them (yellow mesh & blue mesh) (pic below). I have seen pictures of the latter with red mesh. I also have a picture of the header style like yours with maybe Ravenswood in it (pic below). Also a larger bag with header style like yours (pic below). Not that easy to find but someone had a lot of the ones like yours for sale on eBay a few years ago.

Flower company - the flower growers are not part of the flower seller's company. If the slower growers contract with the flower seller to sell their flowers, they are still not part of the flower seller's company but they may have contractual rights about the selling of their flowers - anything from advertising, priority, amount, price, etc. Race Car LLC or similar named companies - it'll all be up to the individual state where they "license" (or whatever terminology is used in that state) their name or with the Federal government if there are copyright or other legal provisions for the name. Obviously if someone does not "license" the name or properly go through legal channels, then the wronged party can go to the government entity that regulates the names and file a complaint or go through the court process to enjoin them from using the name. There are no clear cut answers to the second question you ask on race cars. The above opinions are just personal opinions and not legal opinions, Contact your attorney or legal counsel to determine your individual legal rights.

Neat item. This is how you can tell the difference between marble collectors and marble bag collectors. I look at the bag and not the marbles. Ric looks at the marbles in the bag. LOL - of course, we do both but the first look is probably as I describe.