clydetul62 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Both of these comics are fake done on MK new patches. Buyers are gonna be very disappointed. http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Comic-Marble-Lil-Orphan-Annie-SANDY-Peltier_W0QQitemZ360175197977QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMarbles?hash=item53dc1d5f19&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Comic-Character-Marble-SKEEZIX-Peltier-OLD_W0QQitemZ360175197282QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMarbles?hash=item53dc1d5c62&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 yep...saw those too Clyde. bummer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckEye Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Those are obvious fakes and why did each have over 50 bids? strangely odd Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Whats the give away? by looking just at the photos provided in the auctions I could not say they were new MKs - how can you be so sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 the ink. the print itself, then I noticed the marble. what was it for you clyde? BTW Clyde, Ya comng to Vegas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg11 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 people are actually bidding on those? Wow, and they are 3/4 inch as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Whoa, yeah Mark, that bid history is a beaut. (edit: oops, sorry, Craig!) Bill, look at the blue. It's the most obvious MK structure - modern Rainbow style not Peerless patch. Blue patch on either end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 These fakes have been around a long time. I remember seeing them in the early 90's when we first started collecting marbles. Edna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Here's a comparison of the images. The Skeezix is a better copy than the Sandy. Of course it's still fake. by that way, anyone here familiar with a peerless patch with a yellow patch like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 easiest way to check is a scratch test, the real ones were melted into the marble wernt they, graphite, another great thread thanks,,, bj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clydetul62 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 The color of the patch is wrong. The color is muted in a MK example compared to a Pelt example. The pic is wrong. Steph got it right in comparison of the pic style. I like Edna saw these when I first started about 10 years ago examples in hand. You can feel the print. But you cant feel the pic lol. The size being 3/4 is also a give away. Vegas is still up in air. Although work has approved my time off during that time. Clyde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 The question was asked, "Why so many people bidding on this?" Simple. Amongst the greater antiques & collectibles public(including antique dealers) while there is considerable ignorance regarding the arcana of marbles almost all of them have heard of Sulphides, Comic Marbles, Popeyes, etc. So when some misguided soul with a decent track record(What was that? 98.5%) provides a description with only a sketchy qualification(the ? after Peltier) minds run wild. Hey Clyde, bummer about the plane snafu. I'd be interested in hearing how this eBay sale progresses. Anyone yet advised the seller about his reproduction Comic? David Chamberlain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Oops, just noticed that there were closing bids for both 'Comics.' Ouch! David C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 The question was asked, "Why so many people bidding on this?" Simple. fwiw, the question I saw wasn't why were there so many bidders. It was why were there so many bids. There was something suspicious in the bids. There appear to have been 5 people or fewer bidding on the two auctions. That is, there were 5 distinct ebay accounts involved. One of the bidders placed almost 100 bids total, pushing the bids up, up, up. That CAN be an innocent bidder uncertain of how high they want to go and doing it in increments. However, it's still disconcerting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckEye Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Thats how I saw it, one bidder in both really drove up the prices but won neither I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poplarhead Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Those are the Bennett comics made in early 1990s. I sold my box of 12 for $12 years ago I believe. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Here's a comparison of the images. The Skeezix is a better copy than the Sandy. Of course it's still fake. by that way, anyone here familiar with a peerless patch with a yellow patch like that? great comparisons - thanks for the tips. As you can probably gather - I don't have any of these in my collection yet...so now I will know better what to look for when I decide to get them - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Those are the Bennett comics made in early 1990s. I sold my box of 12 for $12 years ago I believe. Don "Bennett comics" - were they part of a collectors repro set? I hate those - the new repro Akro boxes and such just ruin the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Unfortunately, either way, # of bids or # of bidders the result(s) were the same, a mad scramble to buy that which wasn't what it was purported to be. Re. Bennett's comics: Actually they were rather charming in their thoroughly different illustrated box. Bennett even garnered himself a small corner in the field of marble collecting. And the size of the marbles pretty much made them patently obvious to anyone with a smidgen of marble knowledge. Unfortunately ignorance prevails! None of us are immune to it. Marbles are a real cipher. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 By the by, does anyone here remember Mr. Bennett's claim to fame outside the field of marble collecting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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