Akro gatherer Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 get some repackaged marble king mibs in a brand new CE Bogard package. If i'm wrong i will buy them and eat them. Great deal!!! and they have been in a box for decades! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glangley Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Very cool! Cat's eye's are hard for me to id and having them in the original packaging sure makes it alot easier! lol God Bless!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akro gatherer Posted March 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 check out all of his other auctions. lots of nice old bags. :Emoticon-jawdrop: mibs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Marbles Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Those net bags he also has listed look similar to the questionable Akro bags recently discussed here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Knowing that Bogard did sometimes purchase Marble Kings to fill their play marble orders ... and Marble King sometimes used Bogard marbles to fill their industrial orders ... I had to look closely. (yeah, even with the bright Vacors in the 6-count bag I considered the possibility that they might be age-appropriate lol) The rest of their auctions do not inspire confidence though, so there ya go. How would I go about getting some of that mesh packaging? I kinda like it. Has anyone trademarked the name "Fantasy brand marbles"? That'd be fun. FWIW, sometimes backfilled packaging can have good mibs. This was presented as a backfilled bag, but one which still happened to have very nice Champs in it. Just newer (and fewer) than that particular header would originally have been found on: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 The bag on the right in the listing with the MK cat's was probably made over 10 years ago. The guy out of Florida that had the flyer with 53 (or 55?) different fantasy bags (from the mid 1990's) made that type of bags. Obviously fantasy bags in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 As usual I feel bad about sounding flip. I wrote to the guy about a couple of the auctions. Mentioned the modern marble kings. He seems open to the information. I'd forward him a link to this thread so he could get more info, except that I sounded so cavalier! I am intrigued by the mesh bags though. And it would be fun to have some ... just for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jormibnut Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 All modern! None of the bags have a seam that you'd find on bags from the 50's or 60's. Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 The Vitro Cat's bag of 22 is real. Some of the mesh are probably real mesh, real headers and then filled with marbles and stapled. That's how a lot of those bags came about from the sale when the factories closed - with marbles from the factory until those ran out and then other types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akro gatherer Posted March 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 good info. real but not REAL old. that makes me feel better. of course i wasn't losing sleep anyway. still i guess they may have not been in a box for decades. oh well i hope they sell so it will help the economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2marbles Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Is the buddy box original?.......Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akro gatherer Posted March 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 it would be hard to say but i would not think that they put those MKs in a buddy box. Steph would be the one to ask. She would nail it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 It looks "real" in a way. But it would backfilled with MK's as Brian notes. Using old stock as Al notes. Buddy was a Ravenswood brand. (click to enlarge) (from ebay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddog Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Would you guys say real or fake........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akro gatherer Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 real or fake is hard to say....how about brand new or vintage? those are brand spankin' new looking to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2marbles Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I aways heard something about the staples, like the old ones are square and the new ones are round, or visa versa. I have seen the difference with a 20x loup but can't remember which is which. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I've also heard some reference to a slightly different shape of staple 70 years ago. Whatever is right, having the new ones would prove new, but having the old style wouldn't prove old. I ran out of staples last night. I have pounds of them somewhere, but where? So naturally I went to our antique office equipment nook and took out my husband's 1935 Bates Model B. It's totally awesome by the way. Very smooth. It makes the staples as you need them, from a spool of fine brass wire. So smooth. I'm already hooked. I don't want to go back! LOL. If I keep using it though, I'll need this guy's site. But eneeway ... we saw recently where someone used pre-rusted staples. Shouldn't be too hard to find some old ones. Hmmm, I suppose we're giving away a lot of hints to those guys who want to fool us ... but is that a reason not to talk about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Those Champion Jr. headers look fine to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddog Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Thank You AL-------i thought they were REAL------ they were bought at an auction with these older games and toys!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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