Al Oregon

And here's the JIF Peanut Butter lid that Jill Marie mentioned.

I've got a bunch of them and there are ones in cellophane and others in poly material. They go from one marble to 9 and some are Vitro, MK, cat's-eyes and some with differen companies (even Ravenswood with some other swirls). Here's some pics of mine.

Cat's-eyes are a general term for a type of marble. There are many varieites of cat's-eyes within the general grouping. Banana style cat's-eyes are one. 3-vane, 4-vane, 5- vane, etc. are other styles; cage style cat's-eyes are another with a variety of numbers of vanes; Vitro cat's-eyes with varying number of vanes and hybrid colors besides the single colors. The Mexican, Japanese and other foerign style with vanes of different colors coming out from the center including white crossthrus amd 3-way crossthrus. Neverending... The primary maker of bananas, as least when many of us hear the term, is Peltier. But then there are other cat's-eye marbles that are similar to the Peltier bananas made by Mexico and other foreign countries. And, of course, to muddy the water, not all Peltier banana cat's-eyes were 'perfect' so there are a lot of varieties even there. I posted a picure some time back of a bag of Peltier banana cat's-eyes that I opened and you could see the variations. Also, with the Japanese and Mexican 3 vane cats'-eyes, which were both one color and 3-color, there are ones with very tiny vanes and they look a lot like banana style cat's-eyes and atre probably called that by many collectors. So, that's a start - hope I answered part of your question anyway.

Good compilation Rich.

Always fun to see the odd stuff - thanks!

Good variety! Only one that might be newer would be the one that orbboy mentioned and the two to the left of it. More pictures of those 3 would be beneficial.

Someone had posted this back in 1999

Rich, I'd say the remaining ones of yours going left to right, top to bottom, numberwise, #'s 3, 8, 9 & 10 are Vitros. #12 looks Japanese. Others could be variety of foreign from Japanese to Vacor to India, China,... really hard to tell on some. Vacor put out a ton of peewees similar to some that Mike showed also.

I got it so I'll let you know my thoughts when it arrives. If it didn't have some reference to free marbles on the package, it'd look like someone just wrapped a bunch of marbles in an old hot dog wrapper.

I agree that Rich's marble probably is Vacor - just too odd a pattern for Japanese. Even though they had some messed up ones (Japanese), they still maintained the pattern pretty close. The Japanese had clear glass cat's-eyes, besides the coke bottle green that we are familiar with, but I'm thinking Steph is talking about crystal clear rather than 'normal' clear.

If anyone wants to send a card to the family, Landon called me with this address: Kinstler Family, 323 Riverview Avenue, Capitola, CA 95010

Here is a picture of John taken by Matt (biblefreak) at the Las Vegas Show last November. (If the picture works, thanks to Steph for the image link. If it doesn't work, we're stuck with a post with no picture since I cna't edit it either...).

Nope, not even a masked one. Strange. Thanks for your help.

Thanks, Steph, however, as I just posted in the topic in the main forum, I do not have any toolbar at the top of the reply box, whether I click on the more reply options or not. Do I have to do something to enable the toolbar?

Ric & Steph - I don't have those emoticons, etc. showing in the reply area, even when I click on "More Reply Options". It has enable emoticons box which I have checked and unchecked to see if it makes a difference but they don't show up either way. Maybe an AOL browser thing but...? I have not used a hostingservie since most of the boards have procedure to upload from computer - quicker - but, maybe I'll have to figure out Photobucket or one of the hosting services.

OK - I uploaded a picture to the Gallery. Now, where is this 'My Media" button located in the Reply area so I can move the pic to a post or reply?

Thanks

Yes, he will be missed. He enjoyed collecting and always had some hard to find marbles, boxes, etc.

I just received a call about this also. Apparently he became ill and was hospitalized shortly after the Seattle Show. He was at all the West Coast shows that I attended and had some great marbles, boxes and more. He will be missed. Much too young to leave us.

Lou - are you using the process that Steph shows in Post 30 and 31? That's the only way I know to upload pics and I have the same problem that Steph has. If you are not using that, why is it there? You might check with the techs to find out why it does not work.

Just a follow-up on the book comment. I don't think people that write very specific type of marble books make any money off them. I think they are lucky to break even. I would just like to see all the info categorized in one place and with good pics. Steph has done a great job with the "Study Hall", etc. getting information pieced together on various marbles and topics.

The 1985 MCSA Guide had no mention of the name spiral or corkscrew

Thanks, Rich

Maybe someone will write a book/pamphlet about the find and include pics.

Neat marbles!