Al Oregon

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a marbleous New Year!

Wow!

How's the ice fishing, Griff? Hope you have a safe and warm birthday!

Have a marbleous day!

Of course it depends on the condition of the box. The one I picture here that I have I got for $25 or so. It's a little beat up so... I have seen these range from $20 up to $45 or so but it's been a while. There are also some Weatherbord Shoes advertising on an Akro Box and some others I believe. Also, some bags but those you have to be careful of since some may have been "filled".

Neat items, Craig - good work!

Neat display - good variety of marbles like Black Eye Pea, Sweet Pea, great corks, furnace marbles and some 8 fingers....

Not that I have seen unless they were an accident. Theirs were primarily transparent swirls where the internal swirling was random and the sirls would 'touch' each other throughout the pattern. In a true wirepull, the pattern does not 'touch' itself.

Neat one - new to me, too.

Here's the one pic I have of the one Roman Marble donated by Bert Cohen to National Marble Museum. I'm guessing it was transferred to WVMAG with the other marble items.

If you are not sure Steve - maybe it is a Vacor...?

I have not see one like that or even a picture, except the pic you posted last Feb.

Once you have more than two colors plus the clear base and wispy white, you have a hybrid popeye. Calling it a 4 color popeye is just furthering the description, which is good. A hybrid could have 3 colors plus the clear and wispy white or 4 or 5... Obviously, the more colors, the rarer the popeye.

If you are shipping a bag of marbles (not a baggie full of marbles) like a Vitro or Marble King or advetising polybag or especially a mesh bag, put the bag inside of a baggie or bubblewrap and then wrap/tape it tightly before putting into the final package (usually a box). You want to ensure that the marbles inside the bag cannot move at all (boxes get thrown, etc. by shipper). That way the polybag or the mesh bag does not get torn. Over the years, I have had a few valuable bags get torn because the shipper did not think about it. There was one mesh bag that the shipper carefully cut out some styrofoam to fit the dimensions of the bag lying flat in a box. He put styrofoam on all sides, etc. But, the marbles inside the bag could still move and I received a bunch of marbles outside of a torn up mesh bag....

Thanks for sharing the pics and info.

Also, marblealan was an archaeologist (I think) before 'retiring' to sell marbles. He might have some insight. I posted that in the other thread also.

Another person you might want to contact who is also an archaeologist (if I remember correctly) is Alan Basinet - 'marblealan' on eBay. He didn't specialize in 'marble archaeology' but he is quite knowledgable in both fields. I don't want to post his email here but you can always contact him through one of his eBay listings.

Pretty! If someone posted these from the US as a question, I would be thinking of some of the Jabo special runs.

One of the Superman ones, right? More pastel looking colors - neat!

Good job on the video - almost like being there - thanks!

Nice find - especially like the Ravenswood

I don't own it but this one of Ro Purser's has a few colors...

I'd say Vitro on most, if not all of them. I have similar ones in smaller sizes.

I lso use the 25 count plastic boxes but I also use the 35 count softer plastic boxes. If you have marbles around 5/8 inch, you can buy a plastic cover sheet (thicker type) and cut them up into strips to use a separators and then you can get 70 marbles into a box. Here's a pic of one of my boxes.

Hey, Steve - did you get that from Galen?