mmuehlba Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Well I got a repro box at the show has 25 ringers some mint but mostly have very small issues . were ringers ever dug as this box has a nice amount of them . Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted October 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 one more picture . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Why are you sure it's repro? Just curious. I can find four Imperial box pix ... and they're all bottoms ... to show the contents. I'm not seeing what the top is supposed to look like. Is it because it's brown, not yellow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Looks right in those pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Whether that's repro or not (still curious), maybe it could have been filled from one of the Akro crates which have been found in modern times. How many such crates are known of? Was it only the one Craig sorted ... some 10,000 marbles ... or were there more? Was this style of marble one of the kinds of cork found in the crate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 I got an Imperials box in the mail the other day on consignment (along with a Christensen Agate Moonies box). I'll image the top and the marbles tonight and post them here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Here is the top of the Imperials box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Here are the marbles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Interestingly, 4 of the 5 rows of 5 marbles are double corkscrews, and the last row of 5 are patches (Royals?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted October 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 bob what size it your box as the one I have is 4 1/8 by 4 1/8 all the marbles are 3/4 and all have issues Dug ? for sure not imperials look more like ringers but / ? . Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 So yours is yellow after all? Imperial boxes were host to many different styles of marbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted October 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 just another picture so how many out there or what about the marbles .there are marks on the paper dividers but if I remember correct the dividers are a paper more like a file folder and these are like regular paper . Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 These are some of the bottoms I have pictures of. (And the inside of one top.) The first is an illustration from the letter introducing Imperials in January 1929. (click the links below the thumbnails for the bigger photos) http://i119.photobuc...erialFromAd.jpg http://i119.photobuc...o/MVC-010S1.jpg http://i119.photobuc...ro/MVC-011S.jpg http://i119.photobuc...ig_mc7055_b.jpg http://i119.photobuc...orVersion-2.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 How did you come by this box, Mike? Anyone know how to send the bat signal out to Craig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted October 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 well I was just taking pics at the Badger show and I went back because of he price $75.00 so it came home . It was from a fellow member of the club . here are the pics I took at his table . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 3-3/8" X 3-3/8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 That's the real deal there. My boxes are shiny paper, and all signed / printed on the paper under the lid. That's the buy of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted October 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hi Craig so what about the marbles as they all have issues was there a huge find of these ? I know there Akro for sure but being the condition I thought were all from a dig or ? Here is a link to more pics of the box will get of the marbles later . so how many like this are out there . Mike http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mmuehlba/library/Akro%20Agate%20Imperial%20%20box%20number%202 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 I'm just not positive the longer I look at it. Compare the way the paper label wraps under the lid and stops, and the rest is cardboard. The marbles in Bob's box I have seen in a bunch of Imperial boxes, including one an old employee took home with him. But these in your box are a different type, almost a ringer with the white and red. I have seen Art Bowles make a bunch of unmarked boxes backfilled like this. And he usually used folded carboard like this is. Factory boxes have sharper edges as they were stamped on machines. Steph posted a picture of the marbles in the 10,000 count crate a few posts up. That is an inside picture of a box of mine. Those marbles are similar, but not as nice. The imperials with the double cork screws are what you want to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 The marbles in this box came from the crate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Is the stippling in the paper actual indentations, or printed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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