demismom Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 Hello - Jim and I used to collect/sell marbles years ago, used to attend alot of the shows, but started a family, sold the collection, etc. Well, we still find marbles from time to time and yesterday he ran across a hybrid MK Watermelon, it has yellow in it, in addition to the green and red. It's really a nice looking marble, I'd be willing to call it a wet mint marble. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the value? I hope I included a couple of pictures of it. I hope it works, I've tried previewing them after attaching them to the post, but nothing comes up in the description when I do that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 Neat marble. Not sure of value but with no white showing, I would think it would be of interest and might bring good money if auctioned. In the left picture, I see some oxblood striping on the right side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Marie Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 Cool Mib!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demismom Posted November 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 Neat marble. Not sure of value but with no white showing, I would think it would be of interest and might bring good money if auctioned. In the left picture, I see some oxblood striping on the right side. Yes, that is oxblood, forgot to mention that! I miss collecting marbles - our young daughter is showing interest, so if there are still shows in the upper midwest we might start attending again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOKER Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 SPECIAL RUN WATERMELON IF MINT 450 TO 500 HARD TO FIND RARE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demismom Posted November 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 SPECIAL RUN WATERMELON IF MINT 450 TO 500 HARD TO FIND RARE Would they have deliberately run a marble with these colors? In talking with Jim last night it seems we are confusing "hybrid" and "error" marbles. A hybrid Popeye is collectible because of the extra color, but is a Marble King that has an extra color just an error and not really a hybrid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOKER Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 this marble is No error rare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOKER Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Would you like to sell it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 There are shows - was just one in Decatur, IL. There is a forum on marble shows on the home page in this site. Doesn't go too far ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Is that marble a variation of MK's "rainbo reds"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOKER Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Not sure what you would call it but the last one I had Lana payed 450.00 for and told me it was special run watermelon lana's purty up on the marbleking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demismom Posted November 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 Thank you everyone for the discussion. We decided to go ahead and list it on ebay tonight and see what happens! We were told by someone that the yellow actually makes this marble not worth a lot of money, so I think it'll be interesting to see where the bidding ends up. If anyone wants anymore info on the marble our friend Dan Grocki saw it in person tonight, I'm sure he wouldn't mind giving you his honest opinion on it. Decatur, IL? I think we used to go to a show there, I know we used to go to Ottawa, IL and South Beloit, WI, we also used to go to the New Philadelphia, Ohio and Cincinatti OH, such fond memories. I remember our friend Art, and RIP Ray, Chuck and Diane, RIP Les, and a slew of others I can't remember their names anymore. The room to room thing was always my favorite part of going to the shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Marbles Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 http://www.ebay.com/...=item5890c5652e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demismom Posted November 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 MC Marbles - I wasn't sure if that was allowed or not, so I didn't post the link because I didn't want to upset anyone. I just figured if anyone was interested they'd either message me or ask on the board and I could tell them the number. I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 I don't think there is any problem posting a link. I think they might prefer it in the buy/sell forum but since this thread was originally about hte marble before you decided to sell it, this is the best palce for the link. The mnore PR, hopefully the higher the price for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demismom Posted November 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 I just wanted to say thank you to everyone. I'm trying to decide if I want to start collecting again or not. We have a nice starter collection for our 7 year old daughter, she seems interested, but she likes everything Daddy collects. You know, a Daddy's little girl and everything. Marble King just never was our thing back in the day. We liked Christensen, Akro and Peltier the most. Never could get into hand mades either. Had a couple of nice colored sulphides once, should have kept those, but it was hard to turn down the money offered on them. One was green and the other amber, I think, they were nice sized ones too and I believe they both had a little girl in them, if memory serves me right. Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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