JABO?

[KBL104]

Really new to marbles.  Was told they had been purchased in about 1998 and forgotten.  Any help would be appreciated. 

[akroorka]

I am ready to call the two in the middle Jabo--"Classics".

The one on the ends need more images for me at least.

Nice marbles!

Marble--On!!

[KBL104]

Thank you.... I will take more pictures tomorrow in the light and post them.

[KBL104]

[KBL104]

Tried to find more info on these (and there are several more in the same batch I bought in various colors.  I ordered two jabo/das books but they seem to only picture the later "runs" and not the original early "classics"... does anyone know where there are good pictures of the early ones?  

[The Nickel Guy]

I kinda fell down the rabbit hole of trying to identify every Jabo or at least pigeonhole them into "runs" which I don't think applies. 

I am going to guess that some of our marbles look like they could be Jabos and very well could be but they may have been out of the furnace same day and look a lot like the next one but they don't always get named. Most all the 5/8th size I've encountered that are somewhat "Plain Janes" are just that. Production marbles made by Jabo, and packaged and sold in retail packages as playing marbles.

There are the more fancy ones, made with more effort and care, gold lutz and aventurine added and nice threads of different colors, some glow under UV light.

These are sold in small lots or boxes and may or may not have names and specific dates for the "Run". Sometimes they are 5/8th but quite often larger at most often 3/4 inches.

So, I have learned to relax a bit on worrying about what run they are but if you have them identified or buy them as such, hang onto that identification.

I am a fan of this seller, she's nice and her website alone is quite a display of the wide variety of marbles in this category.

Link https://marblemary.com/product-category/jabo-marbles/

I don't know if I even gave accurate info here but this is about where I'm at with this stuff.

Oh, one more thing. I like almost all of them. Not a big fan of speckled decorated marbles though. The confetti stuff doesn't do much for me nor does metallic lawn chair type swirls.

[The Nickel Guy]

Oh just another thought. Look at the lack of fancy in most of these Jabo pee wees.

https://marblemary.com/?s=pee+wee

I think that there is a good example of what some of the larger 5/8th production no name player marbles would look like. There are some neat ones mixed in but to me many look very common. I have a couple few hundred Jabo 5/8th marbles, some are quite fancy, others are run of the mill common marbles. So relax, I don't think we could figure them all out in a thousand years.

[KBL104]

They are all 5/8" and many of them are on the pages of the link to Marblemary.com labeled Jabo Classics Archives... SO HELPFUL... thank you so much!  I agree... believe they are early "un named" runs, but wanted to be sure I wasn't calling them Jabo Classics if they weren't.  

 

[The Nickel Guy]

All I can say is this is  no small matter. LOL

It's good when you can spot a single Jabo in the mix by experience.

[Nantucketdink]

Yes they are JABO Classics.  Yes JABO Classics can be attributed to specific runs too just like contract era marbles.  You are working off of misinformation to begin with, which is extremely common in the marble world.  Start your search in 2003 instead of 1998 and you will do better being able to accurately attribute your marbles.  I can’t explain the 5 year difference in the sellers memory, but it’s a false memory of sorts.

[The Nickel Guy]

4 hours ago, Nantucketdink said:

 You are working off of misinformation to begin with, which is extremely common in the marble world.

I hope I am not the guilty party, Jabo marbles are amazing for me and there is quite the vast sea of diverse examples. I just think they are fun. Many are truly beautiful works of art.

[KBL104]

I have 250+ marbles from this purchase.  I would say at least 80% of them are in this photo labeled 1992 5/8" classics from the West Virginia marble collectors club ID page.  Going to keep searching when I can as do love the JABO's.  But have about 600 other marbles to get to  and the learning curve is HUGE!  

[The Nickel Guy]

I like these 2 the best (circled)