Authentic 1950's Champions?

[Marbleized]

A couple of months ago I came across some bags of marbles. They were inexpensive so I bought a couple for fun. I'm not good with bags of marbles as I tend to open them and there goes the value if any. I was just curious if these are original Champions in original packaging. The first pic is a bag of transparent, swirls with transparent bases, and opaque game looking marbles that mimic a brick look. The next pic is of the four marbles that I removed from the bag. My third and fourth pics are of another bag, but the styles seem so varied that I am doubting that the packaging is original. Again, there is such a variety of styles and sizes. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Al Oregon]

Unfortunately when Champion sold off their stock of marbles, it included empty polybags and headers.  People put the marbles into bags and stapled on the headers.  Then, when "they" ran out of Champion marbles, they put a lot of other marbles into the bag.  For example, the bottom two pictures have marbles in there that are not Champion.  The top bag could very well be Champion marbles but the marble count is way off - 14 instead of 20.  Off by one count is somewhat normal but not 6.  So, your bags are probably "filled" bags.  By the way, they do not really fit into the fantasy bag category because they are real Champion headers.  That is why I used the term "filled".  This also happened with some advertising bags that Champion made over the years.

[Marbleized]

I had my suspicions but for the price I wasn't expecting much and couldn't resist. Though the top bag could be newer Champions and the second bag looks like a lot of newer champion swirls (? --.52- .55 in size) and patches, and game marbles as well. Who knows, maybe even some Mega brand marbles. Thanks for the info on the history of the Champion marble, bags, and headers sale. Good to know!

[Chad G.]

6 hours ago, Al Oregon said:

Unfortunately when Champion sold off their stock of marbles, it included empty polybags and headers.  People put the marbles into bags and stapled on the headers.  Then, when "they" ran out of Champion marbles, they put a lot of other marbles into the bag.  For example, the bottom two pictures have marbles in there that are not Champion.  The top bag could very well be Champion marbles but the marble count is way off - 14 instead of 20.  Off by one count is somewhat normal but not 6.  So, your bags are probably "filled" bags.  By the way, they do not really fit into the fantasy bag category because they are real Champion headers.  That is why I used the term "filled".  This also happened with some advertising bags that Champion made over the years.

Good info Al !!

[wvrons]

Champion never produced a patch or patch and ribbon marbles.  Champion made mainly game marbles and swirls. Plus they never made anything over 3/4 inch size.

[Marbleized]

Good to know. I didn't think the patches were Champions. Also the price for bagged vintage marbles was just not right. But, there were a couple of marbles that I liked so I figured "no harm". I did not know that Champion didn't make marbles larger than ¾". I'll have to remember that. Thanks everyone!