Ima_ddicted Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 these are shooters in orig. bags. The colors are browns, blacks, oranges, yellows. Also some French Billes bags with 2 diff. types mibs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMopar Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Hey Gail, Do the French Billes have any similarity to anything you have seen before? Just a tad hard to see through the plastic on a picture. Thanx :-) Felicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ima_ddicted Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Sorry about my pics. It's so hard to get good shots through plastic. They're Gladding-Vitro bags. The larger bag has patch type marbles with very beautiful earthy colors. They remind me of the older Vitro Parrots as the colored patches cover the marble more. The smaller bag has a more traditional colored patch marble like bright red etc. I'd have to yank the bags out from under the pile again to get more pics and I'm just feeling way too lazy right now LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pene-lope Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 OK I will flaunt my ignorance, what are HORSESHOE cats. I looked at all the pics and can't figure it out. Not even a little, splain please. Pen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Hi Pen, Horseshoe Cats are basically cage-style cat's-eye marbles that kinda loop around within the marble into a horseshoe pattern. If there were a pic here you'd right off say, "Oh yeah!" Vitro while in Anacortes WA was particularly noted for making these in 5/8" size and larger. I am mailing you the CAT-EYE book by Castle & Peterson gratis whenever I finally get around to it. Sorry....been procrastinating what with prep work for a big Yard Sale and Gawds knows what else. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMopar Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 LOL Gail, not to worry about the pics. Shoot, I'd be lazy and tired too after taking all those pics you have done so far not to mention going through all those marbles. Pen, there's a lotta really kewl cat's eyes out there. Some have color combinations that are off the charts gorgeous! :-) Felicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Here's one which was presented in a thread about horseshoes. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pene-lope Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Thanks, Hot Damn I have one of those, but my mother fried it about 30 years ago and turned it into a mouse. I dismemebered the mouse, but it is still the ruination of a perfectly innocent marble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 What I don't like to think about is those high end, name marbles that might have been fried along the way over the years. Or for that matter ones that were sent sailing in sling shots. Before Jabo got a better handle on packaging I consigned more than a few pounds of them to wrist rocket practice. One morning I spotted a coyote about 1/10th of a mile away settled down on a ridge so I went back inside to get my wrist rocket and supply of Jabos(5/8"). The first one came down about 10 feet from him and he lifted his head to look over. I swear the second one came right down on top of him and he was out of there. "Some damn fool firing marbles at me!" "What's the world coming to." David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poplarhead Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Thanks, Hot Damn I have one of those, but my mother fried it about 30 years ago and turned it into a mouse. I dismemebered the mouse, but it is still the ruination of a perfectly innocent marble. Somebody say what a horseshoe catseye is? Enjoy Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pene-lope Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 The pictures are amazing. Thank you. My mom, as I recall, only like to fry cats as the clarity showed up the crackle effect best. Maybe nothing too spectacular got fried. I have two huge at least an inch that were part of the mouse also. Those damn mice were the tackiest things, she would glue those little googly eyes on them. I was always so offended by them I would take them apart as fast as she could make them. I was a teenager, what if a friend came over and saw the damn things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 This is a particularly colorful horseshoe cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pene-lope Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Oh how lovely, looks like some rare and exotic thing from the depths of the ocean. Who made it and how old is it? Pen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Wow, hybrid horseshoes cum bananas! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Here's one of my favorites - it's Buddy's now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 A non-Vitro horseshoe . . . Jr. now has this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 And of course the Cosmic Rainbows another version of horseshoe cat made in small numbers by Vitro Great marbles everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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