Al Oregon

A few of the 100+ Imperial packages that I have.

I think any Heaton Big Shot (or other) mesh bags are harder to find. I only have one (pictured below) and it has the swirls. Ones with swirls would be more valuable than with clearies but if someone like me that collects packaging doesn't have one, the value would be a little higher. I also posted pics of an older style polybag with swirls.

The guy from Florida that was the first major producer of the fantasy (& fake) bags in the mid to late 1990's made several fake bags of CE Bogard. I have attached a copy of one page of the flyer that I have (not the best copy). On this page, #'s 7, 9, 16, 23 and 27 are the fake CE Bogard and Heaton bags that he made. I had bought a set of the 50+ bags from a third party who had bought them from the maker. Here are pics of the CE Bogard bags. You can see that there is no seam on the back of the bags. I think these are where the MK shooter types appear and people think CE Bogard may have packaged them. I'm not saying that they didn't but the fake bags used a lot of them.

Nice report. Were there Milkies in the box or was it empty?

Couple of other CE Bogard bags - "muddying up the water" with the 4 shooters in a bag (with seam).

Here's a pic of one of my CE Bogard over Heaton label bags. With the tear, you can see the underlying staples, etc.

Some Heaton Cat Eyes bags

A couple more Master bags with black cat's-eyes

www.iamc.us has all of the information

No pontil - machine made - might be Akro or Vitro.

TV - then video games - then cellphones, iPads, etc. Kids don't stand a chance of being normal like "we" were in the old days....

Agreed

As with many marble names, they have encompassed other styles over the years. The ones I pictured were the original ones named "Cloudies" back then. Y'all can have "Cloudiestoo(2)" or "CloudiesJr." - LOL!

Top two rows are Alley peewees that I got from Larry Castle years ago.

Those do not look like the Cloudies that Ron Shaw and I had discussed/named many years ago. Here is a picture of those.

Picture looks like the blueblood (oxblood under the blue).

By pics, I was referring to ones that I have taken of my 3,000+ bags and others that I have saved over the years from the boards, eBay, etc. You find very few bag pictures in the books.

Great find - those size boxes are hard to find.

Neat bag. Not one that I have but it is on my list to find. I have seen a couple of pictures of this mesh bag. Also one polybag with different style of header (it had Vitros).

Galen had posted this picture back in 2009

Worked for me, too.

Great variety of marbles - should generate some interest.

I saw that on Facebook - prayers to him and his family.

Looks very similar to the Jabo Lawnchair Metallics

Also, a thought, because of the other yellow one that was called a messed up cat's-eye (but a definitely different one) and the European slag, it might be possible that both this and the yellow one are some type of European swirl that we are just not that familiar with over here.