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Very nice!

OK, I'll bite - what's a Tootsie?

I have a couple different Hot Shot bags in my collection - here's the pics. One had some tears in the mesh so I was able to take the marbles out and photo them.

Here are a couple old pics that I have of the King and Monarch bags - probably from eBay.

Here's the reverse mode of the picture Windy took of me. Then a box of Pelts from Steve's $1 bin - always fun to pick through; a couple of Vitros I got from Smitty; some corks for my collection and some neat Vitro hybrid cat's-eyes.

I'm pretty sure it's our premier machine made marble maker's birthday today. Have a great one Dave and rest up for the next run!

Good pics, Windy and better than me on some of the names... In the first post, that is Steve Pursch with me. The picture above us is Bob (Doc) Robbins and Landon Daniel. In the 2nd post, it's Jack Labbe on the right (blue shirt) and I'm drawing a blank on the other guy. Above Bill O'Connor is Larry Cannon. Below the 3 Stooges (Sami is the correct name) is Doug Hildebrand. By the way, Peewee is Steve Cogdill for those that don't know. I'll get my pics posted some day.

I agree that the Pressman bag is real. I have several with Vitros in them. Of the others, the Alox one on the right is the only one that might even be 'close' to real. When Alox closed, someone bought all the leftover headers, polybags and marbles and filled them themselves. It looks like this one was filled with MK Cat's-eyes so it is obviously not an original complete Alox bag but may have a 'real' header and polybag portion.

On eBay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=120387826264

Thanks for posting that link

Thanks to both of you for posting the pics and making us 'feel' what you are going through - looks liek a great bunch of people and marbles!

Lazy cork or twisty patch? I'd lean towards the patch but...?

Those Champion Jr. headers look fine to me.

Hope you have a great day! I appreciate all the help you give on ID's, etc.

The Vitro Cat's bag of 22 is real. Some of the mesh are probably real mesh, real headers and then filled with marbles and stapled. That's how a lot of those bags came about from the sale when the factories closed - with marbles from the factory until those ran out and then other types.

Happy birthday!!! Have a marbleous day!

A couple pics

The bag on the right in the listing with the MK cat's was probably made over 10 years ago. The guy out of Florida that had the flyer with 53 (or 55?) different fantasy bags (from the mid 1990's) made that type of bags. Obviously fantasy bags in my opinion.

I'll be there on Wednesday - still trying to figure out what to bring. Not much room i nthe carry-on and I don't trust checking marbles in luggage.

From what I know, they come in a variety of sizes. Made by Vitro, here are some pics (not mine). Also, there are black-eyed peas also. Last pic is Patry's showing both.

Are they actually holes or are they bubbles on the vane?

Thank you!

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