Bolitas

[Fire1981]

1/2 inch 

[Fire1981]

I’d say HTF

[Tommy]

Those are some neat lookin mibs

[Ric]

The bag and mibs are new to me - nice wee ones, though.

[Al Oregon]

Nice find.

[Ric]

I just noticed, it says No. 0 on the bag but the mibs are 1/2" - those would be No. 000 here, right?

[Chad G.]

Boletus - Tomato, Tamato  

[Fire1981]

I’m not sure what the No-0 is because there are 2 different sizes in the bag.

[Ric]

They're pretty distinctive mibs, I don't think I would mistake them for American-made.

[Fire1981]

They look kinda like an Akro patch. I posted them about 15 years ago and I still can’t figure out where they were made. The Seller had a bunch of Left Handed hand mades from the German era as well.?

[bumblebee]

This company, yes?

 

 

[Chad G.]

1 hour ago, bumblebee said:

This company, yes?

 

 

I guess that answered that, next time my back & neck start to get sore from diggin for provenance    I know who to get ahold of. Cool vid Jason, thanks for postin it !!

[Fire1981]

Holy Crap ! You rock. No wonder you’re the new Monitor 

[Fire1981]

Oops ! Big props to Bumblebee. You found it first.

[Nantucketdink]

Just read this post.  Thanks for sharing the pics!

[Nantucketdink]

I agree that they are likely made by Tinka, but I also believe I read somewhere that there were other Now closed machine made makers in Argentina in the past.

[Pinx]

There were five marble manufacturers in Argentina at one time, as well as factories in Brazil, and Bolivia.

[Steph]

On 10/26/2021 at 4:31 PM, Pinx said:

There were five marble manufacturers in Argentina at one time, as well as factories in Brazil, and Bolivia.

Elizabeth, this post sounds like you might be sitting on some good information that I wish I had thought to ask about earlier.  
 

Someone on Facebook posted a potentially Argentinian-looking marble.  She's in Australia, which I think makes her more likely to have gotten South American marbles than the U.S. was.  Do you have any suggestions for company names she might research?

[Pinx]

22 hours ago, Steph said:

Elizabeth, this post sounds like you might be sitting on some good information that I wish I had thought to ask about earlier.  
 

Someone on Facebook posted a potentially Argentinian-looking marble.  She's in Australia, which I think makes her more likely to have gotten South American marbles than the U.S. was.  Do you have any suggestions for company names she might research?

Hi Steph, I am not home right now, so don’t have access to my research files right now. My recollection is that I found this information in a Spanish language article written by an Argentinian man who was lamenting the loss of the popularly of marbles, a game he enjoyed in his youth. He recalled that his country once had five marble factories and every kid played marbles (sounds like the U.S.!). I don’t believe he named any of the factories. It was more of a memoir than a reported article.

[Steph]

21 minutes ago, Pinx said:

Hi Steph, I am not home right now, so don’t have access to my research files right now. My recollection is that I found this information in a Spanish language article written by an Argentinian man who was lamenting the loss of the popularly of marbles, a game he enjoyed in his youth. He recalled that his country once had five marble factories and every kid played marbles (sounds like the U.S.!). I don’t believe he named any of the factories. It was more of a memoir than a reported article.

 

thanks for answering so soon while you're away   

[Joe2]

On 5/13/2021 at 10:40 AM, Al Oregon said:

Nice find.

 Hi Al, can you say from what yr. & are these made in Mexico? TIA.