Al Oregon

Nice to see a different game and people enjoying marbles. Thanks!

On the 081, 087 pics, I'd be thinking Champion.

My calendar must be off (I have this coming Sunday as the date...?) but any time to wish a Marbleous Birthday is a good time!

My first thought if someone posted a picture would be Alley. Haven't seen a CA like that so it must be rare!

Neat idea - works for shipping a marble or two, too.

Nice group!

Neat items - thanks for sharing.

Good find - I'd say not common but also not rare.

Yup, love that color!

Here's a group of 3 pics of 5 Paul Bunyans that David C. put together for Stacy

Winnie's do look foreign to me, along the lines of the Far East types.

I can't remember if I had one in a bag or not. The green glass cage style shooters show up in some Vitro bags. Here's a picture of the pink and peach cat's-eyes that I got via Raelyn in her Vitro find and from Don.

Here's two pics of a 2 agate box that someone posted in 2008

I have not seen the larger bag like that before. Too bad I missed it on eBay. I have just seen the smaller cello type bag with 5 shooters. I have always considered this to be one of the bags that someone made, not to rip people off but to make an interesting bag.

All of the above are correct and it is the same reason that antique shops sell marbles in jars and many of the eBay sellers are people who sell in antique shops or antique malls

Also, a list of top 30 cat's-eyes done by Marlow Peterson in 1999 (Co-author of Cat's Eye book.

I could not find that picture but here are some collages that Ron Shaw did a few years back to give you an idea of the varieties.

As Felicia mentioned, your 'spines' are my 'vanes'. Here's a picture of the 14 cat's-eyes that came out of a Peltier 'printed on bag'. I have saved many pictures of cat's-eyes and other marbles, bags, boxes over the years so I'll look to see if I can find that one of Patry's that you mentioned. In the old threads, sometimes the board was 'updated' and pics disappeared. Sometimes the poster used a host and the picture is no longer hosted or was deleted in the host server, etc.

I'm sure you know about the Kansas marble club but, if you don't, ehere's the link: http://www.kcmarbleclub.com/

Good link Ric - that's a long one with lots of pics and examples! I think you do have to register with Marble Mental Board if the link does not work for you.

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!