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

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.

Here are the other two pages on the fkae marble bags flyer from the mid to late 1990's.

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

Agreed

Agreed

Possibility of Champion also

Yes, both the Heaton and Vitro were legit.

Those Buddy bags look good to me.

Peltier Multicolor Rainbo in upper right. Multicolor swirl in upper left and maybe bottom.

Good variety

Here's one of Dani's picture from '09.

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.

One of my comics

That's a machine made "Fiesta" marble made by Vacor in Mexico and marketed in the US under the Mega Marbles brand.

Reminds me of marblealan's parrots.

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?

Agreed on box being the same. I'm looking forward to George's book (and any new marble book)!

Here's a picture of one with cellophane top from Morphy's Auction (3-2013)

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.

These are some odd ones out of a Vitro Chinese Checkers Box - plain but with a hint of a pattern

Agree on Asian - there are some messed up vanes and sometimes colors in those type of marbles.

Look like slags, especially to newbies, but are Mega/Vacor.

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So they definitely made them and did not buy them from China or some other source?