Al Oregon Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 The Champion bags are ones that have a "poor" history due to all of the filled bags that occurred after the factory sale where people bought empty bags, headers (labels) and marbles. When the Champion marbles ran out when they were filling the bags, others were put in like MK, etc. But you do find original Champion bags and some of them have great marbles in them or, at least, interesting ones. This is one I got recently with some varied Champion marbles in it, including misshapen flame and "Pumpkin Swirl" (I think it was called by David C.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Congrats. Nice find. And nice to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Some patches in it, eh? That's interesting too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Very nice! How old do you think it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesmarbles Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Hi Al, A number of years ago I bought a case of marbles from Champion delivered to an insurance salesman in Pa. The Auctioneer's first name was Nevin, I can't remember his last name but he is still an auctioneer. The case of marbles were all 20 Winners bags and in everyone was at least one or more metallic striped marble. Some bags had as many as three metallic striped marbles. These were delivered directly from champion to the salesman. I was too stupid to keep the box, I saw all the metallic striped marbles and thought what a treasure, my mistake! Anyway everyone was telling me they were repros, so I broke them all up and sold them through Alan Basinet. They were not repros, I only wish I kept the box to prove it.....Joe McDonough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesmarbles Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 I remember now Nevin Fahnestock was the auctioneer.....Joe Mcdonough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Winnie, not sure on time frame. I think the "pumpkin" marble was 70's or 80's. As for the Nationwide bag, I found one with the 3 metallics in it also. Here's a pic. Also, these bags were used by insurance agents for promos. Here's a picture of one, front & back. Also, there are filled ones of these, too. The Champion made bags are a crapshoot sometimes. Even with the original one that I posted, if there were older headers/labels like this in the factory sale, this could be a filled one. If so, at least it had some good Champion marbles in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesmarbles Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Hi Al, there were over 120 metallic stripe marbles in the case, so many that we were selling them in lots of ten at a time.....Joe McDonough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Nice bags, Al. I have a Penny King bag with 3 or 4 metallics in it. Are the ones DC called "Pumpkins" the same as the "Hotwheels" from Charlie Stutsman's sets, and weren't those early-mid 80s mibs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesmarbles Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Al did you buy this from marblealan? if so it is one I may have sold.....Joe McDonough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted November 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 I don't think that I bought it from Alan but...? That marble might be the same as "Hot wheels" - I remember they were hard to tell apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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