Al Oregon

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.

Nice find

From Vitro - I remember Ron Shaw and I posting some pics years ago and Ron called them Vitro "Cloudies". Here is a pic that Ron had posted.

Here are a couple pics from the past - three odd color Rainbos posted by the late Patry Denton back in 2007 and a group of harder-to-find Rainbos posted by the late Guy Gregg in 2004 or so.

Vacor did have some "old fashioned" marbles and I could not find any pictures of the older style from pre-90's but their newer old fashioned style is the basic colors with nothing swirly like Winnie's. Here's a pic of a bag of their new old fashioned style (for info - some might look like WV swirls).

Agree on the Vitro horseshoe style cat's-eyes but a little (lot!) nicer than the ones found in bags like this. The only contemporary cat's-eye that I recall (I don't collect contemps) is one Ro Purser did back in the 1974-75 time frame - zaboo had posted the picture some years back. Ro Purser's 1974-75 cat's-eye (in Calif) (Zaboo-10-04).bmp

Fritos started back in the 1930's so it would not surprise me if they used that kind of bag.

Interesting article - did not read it completely but the marbles playing logic fits in quite well.

Great ideas so far. I would include a package or two of marbles - maybe the newer Mega nets so people can see what is currently available to buy for their kids to play with.

When I first saw the picture in small size, I was hoping it was one of the Vitro Blackies in the odd style that we see in packaging but rarely in the wild - but, alas, it does look Akro.