greg11 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-AKRO-AGATES-NO-250-STAINED-GLASS-BOX-W-MARBLES-BAG-FLOURECENT-MOSS-/152180157632?hash=item236ea4ecc0:g:rpAAAOSwdzVXlWTT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 $1,477.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 This is one of the people from Idaho selling all of the fake Popeye and other boxes from Art Jones. This is very suspect as well. The inserts are new, there is yellow paper taped and wrapped in weird ways all over this box under the top lid. It's too bad, no matter how many times you warn people they still paid $800 for the fake Popeye boxes. Nice marbles though. But nothing that rare or hard to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg11 Posted July 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 good info and thank you. You are right, anyone could put together this set in 15 minutes at a marble show minus the shooters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killermarbles Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 Lots of the marbles they have sold are very used. The popeye box was NG. But some of the marbles they have been selling or very nice. I bought a 1-1/2" Indian and am very pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 I wouldn't pay more than $5 for a NM 5/8" oxblood but you can bet somebody is bidding $20 each for the marbles alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 On 7/27/2016 at 9:07 PM, spara50 said: This is one of the people from Idaho selling all of the fake Popeye and other boxes from Art Jones . . . I don't want people to get the wrong idea about this, so just to be clear, as far as I know (and I did know Art) Art didn't make "fake boxes" that were intended to deceive. About that oxblood box, for example, close examination will tell you that the basic box is original, although the top, especially, has been heavily repaired -- in a way that is intended to be not terribly distracting. Maybe it was backfilled, maybe it was not. Maybe it was partially backfilled. Who knows. Art became interested in repairing old boxes with the closest materials to the originals that he could find -- and occasionally he created obvious fantasy boxes for fun -- the four Peltier "Smiley" boxes for example, three with fantasy labels (which he sold at a show) and one with no label which he kept for himself, and later gave to me. The boxes he repaired he generally kept for himself. The sellers may not be aware of the true nature of some of Art's boxes -- he had over 300 at one time, he told me . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Looks like the inserts are what are new, possibly by Art, He did make a lot of inserts for Akro boxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted August 2, 2016 Report Share Posted August 2, 2016 Winning bid $1,225.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibcapper Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 ........... ............. wow ............................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Yea, I won the guessing contest!! I agree with all the comments above, however. Someone paid too much but...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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