Al Oregon

Why don't you email him instead of posting this to the board?

Interesting pattern!

I lean to Akro (tie-breaking vote - LOL!)

Good buy Mark - so you're the one who outbid me....! Yes, they do look like the anti-blackies although sometimes Vitro had some of their other marbles in Blackies, Whities, Tiger Eyes and other bags so compare them to those types first when you get the bag in-hand.

I thought the term sulphide has been used for couple hundred years or more? As for the term being used with marbles, I'd guess from the mid to late 1800's.

Pic 'title' says Scott Patrick

Here's a couple views of one of mine. Then some other pics I had saved from the past (not confirmed as Vitro oxbloods but ID'd as such so...?

I have not seen any Woolworth's named bags at all so any would be nice to see. There are a lot of advertising bags for soda pop, food, various clothing/shoe companies & varied other companies. A lot of them have Alley swirls or MK patch & ribbons or MK Cat's-eyes or Peltier bana cat's-eyes as well as many Vitros. A lesser few have Champion or Alox swirls. Here's a few odds 'n ends bags that I have. The Dr. Pepper bag has Heaton (verified by Ron). The Nestle's bag has two red & white St. Marys cat's-eyes in it.

That'd be a nice find but, for example, here's one I bought (on the left), in hand, in a group (all $1 or so each) and didn't have a light until I got home. Thought it was a score (and it still was overall) but the black was the dark transparent green base showing through. In hand, with no backlighting, it looked just like this pic.

Great idea!

Some great looking colors and patterns in thee - thanks for sharing that.

Enjoy some ice fishing and celebrate the big day - still got a ways before the half century mark!

Unfortunately everybody will think it is one if you put it on eBay. By the way, what is it?

Yup, that's a good one, Steve!

Time flies when we're having fun so maybe Steve's 'three years or so' is 4 to 5 years. The thread Galen posted was 4 years ago+ and they were mentioning not only 'crows' but 'kingfishers'.

Yup, happy birthday! What day was it?

Here's wvmarbles' pic from last April and Patry's 'Crow's Nest' (from 2007)

That's great work you do! I'd be bringing every one home with me if I did volunteer work there.

Have a (Jabo) marbleous day, Edna!

Have a great day - heading for half a century but you still got a couple years to go...

Good show - too bad they didn't get more pics of the 'classic' (Eagles?) marbles but they hadn't cooled yet so.........

Jo mentions 'Wednesday' Dec 8th. It airs Tuesday, Dec. 8th - that's tonight. It may repeat early am on Wednesday the 9th.

Beautiful marble - colors do look a little European though.

Happy belated birthday - was out of town yesterday!

I agree with duffy on value. I'm curious, what shipping date was there on the box and where was it shipped from? It'd be good information for those if us tracking actual dates of any type. Thanks in advance.