tankgrrl29 Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 check out this auction: Modern Czech mibs on ebay sue, i saw the same auctions you did that alan had. i agree it wasn't all that long ago. i was looking for them and found the above auction. i was very surprised to learn the marbles were new. i wrote to the seller and asked if he/she would mind telling about how they were made. i'll post any reply i get. does anyone here collect these or know much about them? (either vintage or new?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marble novice Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Hmmm, admittedly I don't know marbles, but I do believe I have at least a moderate sense of glass. On the marble I previously posted pics of, if I had to guess, I would say 1970s. I certainly would never guess mid- to late 1990s, especially knowing the Illinois estate from which they came -- lots, and I mean lots, of old glass, some dating back to 1900, and the bulk of it falling between 1940s to mid-60s. I'll be curious to see what additional information that seller is able to provide (i.e., how long such marbles have been made, etc.) Technique certainly appears to be the same, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marble novice Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Oh, I've been meaning to ask (no or ...) what are "mibs"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankgrrl29 Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 found em......... they ended 12/28 and were listed as 'foreign striped transparents/opaques': blue yellow green orange purple multicolor red & black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marbleus1 Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 no answer but interesting WMC in the Czech David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankgrrl29 Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 "mibs" = shorthand for "marbles" and just to clarify, there *are* older czech marbles. i wasn't previously aware that there were *new* czech marbles until i went hunting down alan's auctions and found that other one i posted. thanks for the link, david. i followed the link in the story to a czech website and was able to decipher the "fotogalerie" looks like they use cat's eyes for playing, but check this out: cool marbles i've never seen before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Curiouser and curiouser. Holly, your marbles all look vintage, or at least potentially so. (Some of the cats and clearies could be newer, but we have no particular reason to think so.) So, if the Czech mib is newer, it is out of context in that way. But it is already out of context in another way, because no matter its age, it is not a common marble, and the rest of your mibs look like a nice, solid, but not exotic set. And whereas the seller of the Czech mib lot currently on eBay has credibly (and refreshingly) claimed they are modern, Marble Alan knows glass pretty darn well himself and he should also be able to judge some things about a mib's origin from the person who consigned them to him for sale, and he ball-parked his similar mibs at around the same era you estimate your mib to be from. So, the clues here are pointing every which way! Curiouser and Curiouser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutz4lutz Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 ...and after a rousing game of marbles, there's nothing like eating a shoe... Czech Picnic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marbleus1 Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Its easier to cipher when you press the Union Jack. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggiesmarbles Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 no answer butinteresting WMC in the Czech David Cool article but even cooler link! I was lucky enough to spend some time in Prague and it is an awesome city! Pretty affordable as well if anyone ever gets the chance. Thank you for the article and the link, David! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marbleus1 Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 When I was in the link I tried to e-mail to see what they might know about current marbles but the e-mail (or link to) did not seem to operate. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 WOW!! What a cool thread!!! Thanks Novice for getting us started on this!!! Hey.... Check out the picture (Below) that Chris posted before.... Look at the marble with the arrow... Now, check out this post...... Who made this?? Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 A little bigger, a little brighter...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyMarbleBuddy Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Oh, I've been meaning to ask (no or ...) what are "mibs"??? "mib" = Latin for marble!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyzora Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 "mib" = Latin for marble!!!! That's an interesting old thread brought forward. Maybe there were some old Czech ones on Ebay recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poplarhead Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 That's an interesting old thread brought forward. Maybe there were some old Czech ones on Ebay recently? Now I thought tankgirl had come back to life on boards! Hey Chris! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flanco Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 I got these from a Marble Alan a while back. I think they are a newer Czech marble.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Schusserland.de has a lot of pix of new mibs, with several showing Czech-style bullet-mold ones. http://schusserland.de/?Murmeln:Murmelbilder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyMarbleBuddy Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 I got these from a Marble Alan a while back. I think they are a newer Czech marble.. I bought some from Prague ...love to sell some like the ones pictured here (like the ones sold by marblealan, that is), plus a few that have some transparent as well as opaque glass.. What is a marble collection with out 'em? You know you ALL need some, right? I will sell an assortment of 25 mibs for $12.00 plus actual shipping, what ever that comes out to be. Let me know. Thanks, Ruth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMopar Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Hi Ruth, Do your marbles look anything like these beauties? ( From: http://glass-sphere.com/eshop/presne-kulate-brousene-kulicky.html ) :-) Felicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 In the last two weeks Alan has had some nice old ones for sale (I've been lucky enough to get a few) -- he's also had a couple of new "Czech corkscrews" like you're showing, Felicia -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 I thought this one might be a Czech - I wasn't sure though. Whaddya think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 ?????? My first thought would be German, but I couldn't argue against Czech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 Looks more like this one ,a German machine made marble (sort of slag?) Not a bullet mold that I can see. winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 I agree with Winnie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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