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No, I was not there for the Dirty Jobs. They would not allow anyone extra there while filming that entire day. They even limited how many employees were there that day. That is probably the only time I remember the Jabo factory being closed to the public. I was amazed that Jabo got around Osha rules somehow to let public plus kids in the factory. Right up close to the furnaces and machines. All red hot, noise, fumes and moving equipment everywhere.

Man, I was way off with the year on that one. I should have known that 2003 was one of my most favorites at Jabo. ,

Thats strange, in over twenty years digging at many sites, many times and three states. I have never dug a ball bearing with marbles. I always see them in jars and collections but never dug one.

He does a great job with these.

William, I am sure those fish were made by Rich Shelby in CA.

Vitro

Jabo. I think late 2008 or early 2009 3/4 inch run. A yellow base, it has no white. Made the same time as Frank's Alley. Steve Sturtz wanted yellow base marbles. He wanted me to pick one to be named for L.E. Alleys grandson Frank Sellers. I picked a yellow base with red/orange swirls and some had a few flame tips. Like the Sistersville yellow base Alleys, only the Jabos were 3/4 inch. Frank Sellers at the WV show in May was presented with a box set of Frank's Alleys and a certificate with the marbles named for him. Later in that run blue was added then brown and a small amount of black Kugler rod was added. Some of or maybe the first use of Kugler rod glass for added colors at Jabo. The Kugler glass rods were expensive, but they did strike good. Which means most of the color showed on the marbles. They were about one inch diameter and maybe 12 or 14 inches long. They cost from $30.00 to $75.00 a rod depending on the color. One rod would last or stripe for about fifteen minutes of 3/4 inch marbles.

Light, light and more light.

I started to collect the alphabet. I got about half of them and stopped. Numbers one through zero is not to difficult.

My Bad: To many serious illnesses in family, a neighbor, and close marble friends of many years. Some will not make it long. I answered honest but way to quick , in order to get on to the next one. I try to id and help as many as possible. Probably five to ten a day for 25-26 days a month. On just this one site alone. I help on others plus the emails for identifications and questions daily. I will slow down and with a lot more pick and choose. When the marbles also become stress, it is time to change things. There are plenty of ways to learn today. It is so much different than 25 years ago. It was not easy and none of it free. Lots of people here to help. Keep em rolling.

Ravenswood

No problem. I will give no more values.

You ask and I commented that I did not need a closer look. Were you asking for identifications of any or all ?

Turkey head is associated with Christensen Agate swirls. Not WV and Mexico swirls. The second picture looks like Christensen Agate. To much damage for any collector value.

None

No Wedding Cake. All Wedding Cakes are two different colors of white and one other color, not two.

Not that I know of.

Alley

One of the later Jabo.

Maybe newer MK.

First one is Akro. The last one is Vitro.

I don't see the best slag ever.

Foreign to the US. Asian, or pincher or maybe Wales.

Tank wash are marbles made before a special investor run the next day. I guess end of run would be near the end of a run. Most times at the end of a run the colors are running out and the marbles are plain mostly just base glass. First it depends on what a run is or what run ? Most special investor runs at Jabo were 2000lbs. of glass. At the end of most all special investor runs, once the time usually 10-12 hrs. or the 2000lbs. was reached. The Striping colors were stopped being added. Once the colors left and it was just mainly base glass. The 3/4 inch marble machine was pulled out from under the furnace and a 5/8 or 9/16 marble machine was put back in place under the furnace. Then the normal scheduled production began again. If it was game marbles, industrial marbles or what ever the need. What I would consider end of run marbles, would be plain or discolored non desirable marbles. They were always discarded as scrap. Unless you were present in person, how would you know what the last marbles made, end of run were ? A run might be days, weeks, or months. A end of run might be when a problem happend and equipment had to be stopped and repaired. End of run statement for machine made marbles is a big blank or ? unless you were present in person and seen them. Because every end of run could be very different. But all actual end of run marbles would be most likely be discarded and not anything sellable. Once you stop adding colors to base glass, it might take five minutes or twenty minutes for the colors to leave. At 250 per minute that is a lot of marbles and lots of variation all along the fading disappearing colors. So os end of run when the colors addition is stopped, or the last one hundred, or the last ten marbles, or the last marble ? Big separation from Tank Wash to End of Run. Tank wash at Jabo was a small batch or marbles made almost always the day or evening before the special investor run. Tank wash at Champion Agate was a completely different thing. But you ask about Jabo tank wash. End of run for machine made marbles, sounds nothing more than a sales pitch to me. Unless the actual seller was there in person to see and get the last marbles made for some particular time frame. There are probably as many false sales pitches as truthful ones. Buy the marble not a false story.

It means that they were made the day or evening before a special investor run. Almost all were 5/8 or 9/16 size. They were usually small numbers maybe from one hundred to five hundred pounds.