Al Oregon

Same here - bought a lot on eBay. I am so sorry to hear this.

This one I have not seen pop up anywhere for a long time.

Great research by all. That helps put some more date information towards the transitional types. Thanks.

Great info - thanks! Couple questions - the blue & white in the "no type" picture seems to follow the Type 1 description (or is the white not "following" the blue?) And the lower left seems to follow the Type 2 white in a colored base?

Here is one of Don's pictures from 2008

A picture I saved from back in 2000 - no other info available.

Yup, newer style Mega (Vacor) Dragon.

A little off topic but I wonder if the government will come after the marble collecting hobby for calling these marbles "Indians"? Not politically correct.

Oregon Sorry, couldn't resist.

Here is her Christmas card from 2002

Thanks for the additional info.

You can probably search the name on this Board but I had copied some info that Winnie had posted in 2011 - here it is: Veiligglass Marble Co. – Amsterdam – Netherlands Info from Marble Connection Board – May – December 2011 Posted by Winnie – May 2011 It's true there was a marble company in Amsterdam. Agood freind,Hans Bartels has looked in his fathers archief and found this newspaper article written by Jaap Stigter in 1959. In my post "speaking of flames", I already mentioned the possible existence of a factory. Then I also talked to a fellow who was born and raised in that neighborhood. He told me he remembered the factory very well, he picked up marbles as a child Here is a brief translation of the contents of the article. Dutch marbles roll over the globe. Born in Amsterdam in glowing colored glass flow. The marbles roll over into English,French,German,Ethiopian,Australian and Cuban children. The large German manufacturing has disappeared since the war. Netherlands has only one marble factory in the Realengracht. France also has a marble factory. The Dutch marble factory made each year 50 million marbles in different colors (15mm 17mm),those obtained by mixing metal oxides with glass mass. 10 years ago they started production. In the beginning,they experimented a lot and the production process amounted to much handwork. Finally they succeeded with the help of engineers to design their own marble machine. How is that? i think they have made swirls.... winnie

Great Cairo marble ID site. You mentioned packaging - any on Cairo?

Interesting site

I assume that you did log into your account on eBay. Nothing else mentioned above will work until you do.

That first picture sure looks like a double ingot, however.

Just put the marble in an ice cube tray of water and then freeze it - you'll have a "marble cube" - LOL!

Very nice! And you did use the "museum glue" on each stand and marble so when the "big one" comes, they will stay in place?

Hadn't thought of that but I have not seen any marbles with the Marbo Gun so...?

Very possible based on what Edna said. Of course, a lot of the filled bags were really off in size versus label as well as # of marbles. This bag is closer to a "normal" bag and appears to have the "right" number of marbles so it could be a legit one done by Champion. This is also why many of the legit Champion bags do not have much value and do not sell well.

Good example of Japanese Cat's-eyes

Neat item

And, the corkscrew in the lower right is one of those types that if you shine a bright light on it, there might be some oxblood underneath the blue/black cork...

Agreed

The two oxbloods that Steph mentions in the top of the 6th column might be more valuable - up to $20 or so but it all depends on the condition. If there is a pinprick or tiny flake, the value goes down tremendously.