Marble King - pinkish base

[ManofKent]

A bunch of Marble King arrived today - I'm guessing late 60's early 70's but wondered whether the use of an opaque pink(maybe lavender) base for some of the patches narrows the period down?

Thanks

[Steph]

Definitely gotta have pix on this.

Pink makes me think modern.  

So I could be in for a surprise.

[ManofKent]

Thanks - with fellow travellers:

 

[Steph]

Though I can't remember red and pink, the blue and pink looks familiar.  I may have had some of those. 

Would have gotten mine in 2004 or 2005 from someone  who sold modern MK's.   He would sell them 100 at a time on eBay.  So I place that one at 2000, give or take.  

[ManofKent]

3 hours ago, Steph said:

Though I can't remember red and pink, the blue and pink looks familiar.  I may have had some of those. 

Would have gotten mine in 2004 or 2005 from someone  who sold modern MK's.   He would sell them 100 at a time on eBay.  So I place that one at 2000, give or take.  

Thank you - that's a lot later than I guessed. The Girl Scout (above) which came with the pink based didn't look like one of the really modern Girl Scout's to me (more early 70's). From the assortment of contents (different sizes) it looked like an emptied tournament bag, rather than of mixed origin.

[Steph]

The black and red one intrigues me.  Seams? 
 

I'm not ready to rule it out as a 1960's MK.

 

[Alan]

Those aren't jumping out at me as MK.  The one on the right looks a bit Pelt-ish.

[ManofKent]

2 hours ago, Alan said:

Those aren't jumping out at me as MK.  The one on the right looks a bit Pelt-ish.

I'm certain they're MK - there's a few others in the 100 odd lot that I'm 95% sure is a split tournament bag. I've seen the same ones in photos of other bags. They do look peltish at first glance though - in the hand you can see the glass difference, but it doesn't jump out.

[ManofKent]

3 hours ago, Steph said:

The black and red one intrigues me.  Seams? 
 

I'm not ready to rule it out as a 1960's MK.

 

Not great photos (black marbles...) but the same one (and companion) front and rear:

[Steph]

Was wondering if that was a "black widow" ... a type dug from a 1960's dump site by Jill Spencer.   The black widow is a two ribbon marble.  You appear to maybe have a second ribbon that something weird happened to.  Your ribbon(s) look maybe more equatorial than on my black widows.   But the ribbon color looks good in comparison to what I'm holding in my hand..  

[Steph]

While I was looking for a black widow photo I found some pictures Edna took of modern Marble Kings Randy Gossett sent her. She even has the red ribbons in her group.  

More pix here: 

http://marbleconnection.com/topic/6902-mostly-pix-marble-king/?do=findComment&comment=187471

 

[ManofKent]

Thanks Steph. There are some of the green stripe and white stripe on black variants in the lot too and they're similar to the red stripe/black widow. I've got some of the modern (well 80's/90's striped ones) and the ones from this lot are similar but not the same - it could be batch variation but the ones from this lot are almost slightly cruder and less 'polished' than the newer ones. My gut feeling is I've picked up a split bag that's probably an early run of the more modern types - probably early 70's (I don't know how well documented the introduction dates of the newer styles is). I'll try and contact the person I bought them from to see if they've got any idea of the date.