Okiemarble Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 As most of you know that read these we love to go out to the old farm steads ( sometimes nothing left but a foundation of an old house) and hunt for marbles. Sometimes we get lucky and find one or two....... but today was JACKPOT!!!!!! At an old dairy there was a little building that held full cans of milk to be cooled by cold water. These were held in big troughs filled with water from a windmill that sat next to the little building. These troughs are now filled with dirt and debree from pack rats! BUT digging through this nasty stuff.... we found 75 marbles!!! ( and some old toys including a red rider bebe gun, soda bottles , and odds and ends) I know to some these are just old dinged up marbles, but the fun is in the hunt. In all it took about 3 hours to dig these up, so here they are. they range in all sizes from one inch to peewee. The peewees I have never seen before. SOme of them are blue with a gold stripe from pole to pole. The white peewees have a maroon stripe and an oxblood like color stripe. Any info on these would be appriciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiemarble Posted September 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 the peewees.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba1 Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 those peewees are SWEET! i couldn't hazard a guess though! nice find!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo44 Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 I would REALLY like to see those white peewee's in hand. The ones with the stripe's remind me of the oxblood peewees that came IN THE BAG of the Akro popeye tins. How far are you from Duncan where Buddy lives? He can take excellent closeup pictures. A gold stripe...... now that is interesting. Bo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 I have one of those mettalic striped pee-wees. They are cool, I will see if I can dig up my shots of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiemarble Posted September 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Now youve got us really excited!! Gotta tell us all about the peewees in the popeye tins!!! Here are some closer pics. The little blue ones are strange with there gold stipe, If you look at them in the sun or bright light they shine gold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiemarble Posted September 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Heres one on ebay..... still don't know what it is though.. http://cgi.ebay.com/NEAT-LOOKING-TINY-PEEWEE-OXBLOOD-MARBLE_W0QQitemZ170381269936QQihZ007QQcategoryZ2573QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26ps%3D6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roany poany Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Hi Okie. I found these metalics in a yardsale over at Chattanooga a couple of years ago.. they were traveling with MKs and Vitros. the 2 whitish ones are 15/32" and the blue one is 1/2" dead on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiemarble Posted September 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Thanks ROany, Yeah those are pretty much them. It seems I can find some of the white ones here and there on line but not the blue metalic ones. Yours is pretty close, but my blue ones have a thinnner line, but everything else is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigafoose Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 What a nice find I agree that when finding marbles condition is secondary to just finding some marbles. I can spend hours digging in the dirt only to find some chipped up, dirty or just plain clear marbles and still call it a good day! Congrats on the find sounds like you had some fun and the BB gun and the rest is a cool bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiemarble Posted September 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Exactly and Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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