William Marbles Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Hey Everyone!! Okay thought I talk about this subject. IYO, what do you think are HTF type/kinds of marbles. I'll start. I think Akro white base with Yellow cork screw's are almost impossible to find, so I would think they are HTF, if not even rare. Checking eBay, None in forever. I tell my buddy all the time.....how many do you have? And he just smiles. None. My picture soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 I agree with the yellow on white corks. I have 5, but even harder to find are the Akro baby blue spirals or snakes. I've been looking for 17 years and I've only found 4. The turquoise ones are not hard to find I'll show you the difference in color .I allowed some updates this morning and now I can't find my photo files. They have appeared to disappear. I'll work on it. I also found the purple on white base corks htf. I found one in many years and gave it away because I couldn't find 4 more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 I never though about it maybe some are whiter ? do these count ? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Here are baby blues at the bottom. Above them are 3 with the turquoise color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 I also find Vitro Agate beach balls difficult to find and very expensive when I find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Marbles Posted April 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Sorry, never washed these.....just dirt.. 2 shy of a row for a box. Yeah, Mike those are them.... Those snakes almost look purple. Very neat looking color!! I'd say HTF as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Row 2 green and black corks were very hard for me to find, Also row 5 red and black. I have found the 5th one now, but don't have a new picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 More Akro hard to find (for me) Blue and green corks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Row 4, the green and yellow were hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 The red and pumpkin corks were hard to find. I haven't looked for more in years. My enter key will not start a new line as of today, Makes it hard to post pics and write about . them, Tried to trick it by spacing over and that won't work either. The pumpkin on the top row is looking yellow, but in hand it's pumpkin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Purple/yellow and purple/green were also hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 The red spirals were hard to find too. They are red, but look orange here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacyw Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Great thread - keep it going. It's very educational for those of us with less experience to see photos of the HTF ones. I hadn't pulled out the Akro box in a while - forgot how much I like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nantucketdink Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I think rare and hard to find are very different terms. When I hear "Rare" I am thinking about a marble that was produced in extremely limited quantities and/or very few are still known to exist. HTF is a very subjective term to me that means in my personal experience I have had great difficulty finding an example of a particular marble whether or not it is a rare speciman in reality. HTF means very few are available to buy to me. There could be thousands of HTF examples in strong hands under lock and key and they would still be HTF if very few were for sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Agree with nantucketdink. That's why I kept posting hard "for me" to find. I am not an expert on how many were produced or on who's got them squireled away. I answered from my personal experience hunting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacyw Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Understood. But I still think it's good to know what folks consider HTF if only because an inexperienced collector, such as I, might have something that someone else is searching for to complete a row or collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I agree they mean different things but there are very few if any actual numbers in writing of how many of any type vintage marble was actually produced. Although we do know how much inventory of certain color slags was on site during early production inventories done each quarter, at Peltier different color combos of opaque types are not really mentioned. There are some numbers available for MFC marbles but other than those I know of none. I am only talking Vintage. I have to say in marbles rare and HTF can seem fairly synonymous since we do not have facts on how many were actually produced. Of course both these terms have an extreme amount of variation to whoever is using the term. Someone that just does ebay vs someone that does ebay and attends shows vs someone that just does stores and flea markets vs someone that does auctions, where you live, who your marble buddies are etc,etc. In CA any CAC is fairly HTF but I would not consider many types Rare although they are rare in CA or are they just HTF????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 For me living in Holland all the American made marbles are HTF but not rare LOL Edna good pictures,thanks. winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 HTF... a purple and black snake/ corkscrew please?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 That gotta be pretty darn rare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacyw Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Zaboo - would that be like the one in Road Dog's avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Hi, no road dog's avatar shows slags. but here's 4 yellow and white for sale... lol http://www.ebay.com/...#ht_2021wt_1328 want the purple and black constructed like these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleseeker Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Are we talking only Corkscrews? Otherwise, I have a hard time finding Pelt clowns, and those Vitro 8 finger marbles. I have found some fairly rare marbles in my time. A MK Hercules, MK Dragonfly, CAC Peach slag and even a MFC moss agate. But just can't seem to find clowns or 8 finger Vitro.... When I say "find" I am talking in the wild. Like at garage sales, flea markets or antique stores/shows often in a jar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gametech Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 Would this Pelt qualify as htf? I can dig through the rest of my collection to see what other goodies I can come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gametech Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Here ya go. Just picked this up last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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