Al Oregon

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?

So there are 200+ marbles - average $30+ each. May not be bad if condition fits.

Great find!

Neat idea!

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Galen - probably since '99

That large one is nice.

Your story similar to mine - bought several years ago from guy whose grandfather had it as a kid. Same types of marbles, too.

Nice share, Bob. Thanks.

Last one

Getting near the end

And a couple more

Couple more

Couple more

I know most people don't collect metal on marbles (not including the metallic sheen on newer marbles) but I think everyone has one or two that cross into your collection of whatever you do collect. I'm posting some of the ones that I have collected over the years. In doing these group pics, you cannot always tell the metallic in the pics. I* just did flash pics to try and bring out what metallic I could. Some are a small piece, some stripes, some follow the swirls and others almost cover half the marble. BUt, you'll get the idea that it shows up on a wide variety of machine made marbles.

Very nice!