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A day late. Sorry

Oxblood August 2023

More Vacor

Vacor is putting out some beautiful mibs!

Just a couple of my Vitros

On 7/27/2021 at 7:53 PM, wvrons said:

Who made these ? What is your opinion ? Ravenswood did not make them. Ravenswood bought them, named them, packaged them and sold them in their mesh and plastic bags. Also came with a rare large childs toy named Paul Bunyan with a Blue Ox. The marbles are placed on the Ox's back then flip his tail and the marbles roll across the ox's back and down across the head into a trough or track below between the ox's legs. I have one in a original box. Kids love it and will wear one out. The marbles were made by Akro or Master. None have ever been dug at Akro that I can find out about. The cut lines look more Master. They come in about five color combinations. They are all near 7/8 inch size.  The most common color combo is opaque yellow base and red patch.

Many of the Ravenswood packaged marbles contained one large Paul Bunyan marble. The Old Fashioned Marble mesh bags contained Ravenswood marbles and one Paul Bunyan marble. 

 Did Ravenswood get the name from the Paul Bunyan game ? Did they get a order for 7/8 size marbles for this Paul Bunyan game. Since they did not produce 7/8 size marbles they bought them from another company and named them Paul Bunyan. I think the date of the Paul Bunyan game is about 1931-1933. 

This marble game or childs toy is rare to find. I know of about maybe six total in the hands of marble collectors. 

I have done a couple articles on this for the West Virginia Marbles Collectors newsletter in the past years. 

Have you got any Paul Bunyan marbles ? 

 

This is well over an inch big

On 4/4/2023 at 8:07 PM, Fire1981 said:

Are there any 7/8 -1 inchers out there. I don’t recall ever seeing any 🔥

RAR

I have two. Light blue.

1 minute ago, Chad G. said:

Warm rain and getting warmer, we missed all the rain and snow Cali got "Luckily"

The wind is blow very hard right now. Was 80 yesterday but, much cooler today!

How's your weather? Hope everyone is safe!

On 3/21/2023 at 10:29 AM, Mojo said:

Reacted on an advertisement today 

After work i went to the seller 

Few blocks away from where i live 

A white latticino he had for $10 

 When i was there i asked , do you have more ....

Yes he said.....

He showed me 26 more marbles 

I was blown away of the condition of the marbles and he had the solitaire board also , and just the top of the box  

Same cane caught my eye 

I spended a bit more them $10 

$150 he accepted for all 

I was on a blue cloud rose then instantly whooohooooooo 

What a catch 🤹‍♂️🥳 SCORE !!!!!

Enjoy the pictures , took 19 different ones , some are same cane , did not take pictures of all , hope you can see it on the board 😃👍🏻( middle row and above )

Comments welcome and always appreciated 

Wow, I would try to keep them as a set. But, that probably wouldn't last long  because I would end up sharing. They are cool!

2 minutes ago, Chad G. said:

I know it reminds me kind of a Peltier Feather slag also but a feather slag has a transparent base, in this case it would've been transparent blue, still an excellent marble.

Thanks

3 hours ago, Chad G. said:

Lookin like it may be Alley Windi ?

Really? Huh?

1 hour ago, Fire1981 said:

My Top Shelf Aqua Tuesday Slag 🔥

Nice

Another spotted dick?

Silver Surfer, peltier blues brother and an akro sparkler. I also would love another Brick!

1 hour ago, Chad G. said:

I'm guessing a few people were expecting me to post a tiger ?? Or two ??

       

 

 

Very nice 👌 

I have both the heaton rotten robin and the jabo version and both are very nice and very similar 

I am seeing Jabo classic all the way across.

Pretty purple pelt