Al Oregon

When I was first collecting - for the first 8 - 10 years (when the fantasy bags starting coming out - late 90's, early 200 time frame), I did collect those type of fantasy bags. The person that made the types you linked to (and I did not keep track of the name so not sure if same person but bags look the same) did a very good job on them - nice printing, good quality headers and bags and the marbles were good quality marbles. But, they kept proliferating and even bags take up a lot of space so I quit collecting them. The person keeps up on the latest "hot" items - like the latest Ghostbusters movie - and has kept them coming. My last count, I had about 270 of the fake and fantasy bags and some duplicates, too. A little side note - on some of the earlier bags (and ones now probably), they also used Mega/Vacor marbles. Can you imagine finding a fantasy bag with some advertising name like these bags and having it full of early Michelangelos? 25 to 28 of those beautiful marbles that are selling like hotcakes now.

I haven't seen any lists of MK P&R colors - old or new. Gerald is working on a book - I think it is still in "layout" or whatever it is called.

Agreed - Alan was one of the first ones to sell them. I think Pete has them on his site.

If you think finding Whities in the wild is hard, try finding Vitro Whitie bags. I have a couple bags of shooters but only one partial bag of the regular size Whities. If anyone has one, I'm interested.

Picture?

Nice finds

I'm against Vacor, too.

Here's a "peawee" post from '07 that's a companion to Steph's post.

Just for comparison, here is a picture of the Akro game marbles that are No. 2 size (3/4) in the Chinese Checkers Box. Definitely not your colors. Yours look to be the correct pastel hue. I'll also post one picture of Pete's/Galen's CA pastels box so you have that comparison.

In 1998 when I first started, I found a lot of CAC Bloodies but found out they were some of the Jabo Classics.

Good information - thanks for sharing that.

If anyone collects bags (and some boxes), I'm back to selling some duplicates on eBay (after 10 years of not selling). My eBay ID - arasmus Thanks.

If I were sorting slags or striped transparents/opaques (or any similar type of marbles that could be by 2-3 (or more) different makers, I would be doing the one-seam, two-seam idea of yours. As Steph mentioned, others are usually sorted out by company and style - Pelts, Akro corks and other obvious styles. Patches, to me, is a whole other ballgame in ID'ing. I've given up on those but, after studying the various tips, etc. on the marble boards, you should be able to sort those by specific patterns.

I'll stray to the "bag" side of the aisle with these "E" companies advertising bags.

CAC or Superman Alley or Superman Peltier???

Info at www.iamc.us

Looks like they are.

Since someone posted Coca Cola logo types, ehre is a bag that I have. I wrote to the plant in Piqua, OH some years back to see if anyone remembered these -no response.

That is sad to hear.

Steph - I think it is the large botched ones that I don't view as Galaxies. Here's a pic from David Chamberlain's box (from Vacor) plus a couple other bag pics from Qualatex and early Mega. None seem to have the large blotch types.

Not sure about Galaxies but it does look like older Vacors (80's to early 90's) - here's pic someone posted years ago. Is yours opaque?

Thanks for the info. I don't plan on collecting more of those. By the way, if you did not know this, Jabo used to produce licensed logo marbles in packages (samples below) but they could not sell the volume required under the licenses so stopped after a while. I think they are pretty collectible.

Definitely Vitro hybrid cat's-eye - nice one.

That was Mr. Carl Fisher's first attempt at the clay marble making....LOL!

Back in 2004 I picked up a couple packages (since I collect marble packaging) but did not pursue any more. Here's pics of front on two and back of one (shows others they had packaged).