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  1. Al Oregon
    Sad to hear. He mentioned some health problems when I talked with him at the Orange County Show in March. He was a great guy, champion weightlifter and had a variety of marbles. Condolences to his family.
  2. Al Oregon
    The one I start my specific search for is under "Toys & Hobbies" - "Marbles" and has 17,508 listings
  3. Al Oregon
    Will be there on Thursday - look forward to meeting many of you that I have not met in person before.
  4. Al Oregon
    These "jobber" boxes were filled with a variety of marbles - a lot of time Champions but you find other ones in there also. No specific company name tied to this box as I recall.
  5. Al Oregon
    That atmosphere bag is a good one for your category - definitely hard to find. Along the Vacor lines, for marble bags sold in the US, Qualatex was the predecessor company to Mega in marketing Vacors in the US. Their bags are definitely harder to find. What makes people overlook them (from a bag collectors' standpoint) is that their headers look just like the first style of Mega bag headers - basically Mega used Qualatex's style and changed the logo. In the upper leftt portion of the front of the header on these pictures, you will see the Qualatex logo instead of the more common Mega logo. The two types of marbles here - Glitter and Assorted Stelaris are definitely harder to find - 90's time frame
  6. Al Oregon
    Steph is on point - hard to tell when MK Cat's were made. You can find a variety of MK's in those Peltier bags - cat's and even Rainbows.
  7. Al Oregon
    Here are the other two pages on the fkae marble bags flyer from the mid to late 1990's.
  8. Al Oregon
    They just "pushed" them out in bulk like the ones you show above. There are some sketchy Mr. Peanuts bags. If they are Alley swirls, very good likelihood of being legit. If they are older MK's with a BB or CS, same answer. If they have "Play the Game, Be Fair...." on the reverse, they are most likely legit. If they have "Play the Square...", that's where you have to look at the marbles and for the seam on the bag - that's where there may be some fakes. Amana - Des Moines Marble Show Article (9-25-13).doc
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    Agreed
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    Agreed
  11. Al Oregon
    Possibility of Champion also
  12. Al Oregon
    Yes, both the Heaton and Vitro were legit.
  13. Al Oregon
    Those Buddy bags look good to me.
  14. Al Oregon
    Peltier Multicolor Rainbo in upper right. Multicolor swirl in upper left and maybe bottom.
  15. Al Oregon
    Good variety
  16. Al Oregon
    Here's one of Dani's picture from '09.
  17. Al Oregon
    By the way, be careful, about 90% of the marble bags that you see listed on eBay are fantasy/fake bags. Of course, they have real marbles but they are newer ones compared to the purported dates that they say the bags were made.
  18. Al Oregon
    One of my comics
  19. Al Oregon
    That's a machine made "Fiesta" marble made by Vacor in Mexico and marketed in the US under the Mega Marbles brand.
  20. Al Oregon
    Reminds me of marblealan's parrots.
  21. Al Oregon
    You can check the "poles" or "ends" and see if you can see initials engraved into the marble. That can help determine which individual contemporary maker made it. Also, what size is it?
  22. Al Oregon
    Agreed on box being the same. I'm looking forward to George's book (and any new marble book)!
  23. Al Oregon
    Here's a picture of one with cellophane top from Morphy's Auction (3-2013)
  24. Al Oregon
    These are the "older" Jabo logo marbles when they were getting ready to do all of the licensing ones - package I got back in 2005.
  25. Al Oregon
    These are some odd ones out of a Vitro Chinese Checkers Box - plain but with a hint of a pattern
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