Al Oregon

From Ron Shepherd's display at the Texas Marble Show last weekend - the word Alley is made up of Tater Bugs....

Hope you had a chance to enjoy your birthday!

Hope you have a marbleous day!

Lou, you may want to 'pin' this at the top.

Pretty one, Winnie!

These are some of my non CA type flames.

Great find!

Hey, that's been my screen saver for the last few years...

What general area do you live in - many of us have contacts all over the US - maybe we can put someone in touch with you? Also, when it comes to marble ID in books, the vast majority shown are ones that have a little bit of value to them (or a lot) but 95% of the marbles that you find in the wild are 'common' and you don't find them in the books.

May your marble days extend forever!

All the current listings mention German in the title. One even mentions Alley in the title along with German.

And here's a link to the other thread for the report on the 2009 show http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=12147

Have a marbleous day,Burt!

Marble colors are really difficult to pin down, especially on monitors, etc. IMHO aqua has a slight touch of green to it. You might just google aqua and look at the colors. Among previous marble 'color' discussions, trying to pick a peach slag color has caused many a discussion with all the different shades of amber, etc.

Those are unusual - great looking.

Have a marbleous day!

They look nice!

Here's a picture Patry did back in May 2007 - Crow's Nest - and one wvmarble did back in April of Kingfishers

Neat marbles!

Not many of hte bags from Japan, Taiwan, etc. in that era had warnings. The ones that did seemed to have 5 or 6 years. Here's some examples from my colleciton (quick look) - I did not have close-ups on all.

I got a beat-up Playtime blister package - blister part came loose in the mail from an eBay purchase - so thought I'd take the marbles out and use for display, etc. Of course, Hong Kong did a lot of packaging of marbles so marbles probably came from Japan or maybe Taiwan (guessing this pkg is 80's - maybe earlier?). Anyway, there are some of the flat one vane cat's (which to me are just their 3 vane type that didn't flow properly but they ARE flat) that wee discussed not too long ago in another thread plus some of the 3 or 4 vane types - couple different color cat's - all in that coke bottle green glass (which is why I think earlier Japan). Just for info - Steph can save the pics...

Great pics and great report! Lots of marbles and people!

Neat one - good pics, too.

I'm going to the Texas Show for the first time (not my first show but first in Texas). I'm arriving really late on Wednesday. I would highly recommend that you get there at least the day before the show so you can visit the collectors in their rooms. They usually try to get the marble folk on the same floor(s). If the doors are open, you can walk in, see marbles, get ID's on marbles, buy, sell, trade or just chat. The shows are great also but you may not have as much time with a particular collector to ask questions or have your marbles ID'd. With Ron Shepherd there for swirl ID's and Steve Sturtz there for the Jabo Runs' insight as well as his books, it sounds like a great show. Also, the collectors in that area are fine folk. I look forward to meeting many of them in person that I have only "met" on the boards.

Have a great day!