Steph Posted November 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 Billed as a Champion Agate SamplerSource: Lloyd Ralston auction This is a sampler bag from champion Agate Company. White muslin bag with drawstring. Filled with peewee clearies. Has a cardboard order form/address card sewn to the bottom. Stamped on the from "From Champion agate Company Pennsboro W. Va.". The bag would be mailed as a sample to a potential customer and then they could tear off the postcard and mail in an order. On this example, the postcard has been torn off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) Charlie Stutsman (1914-1999 RIP) was a long-time antique dealer and marble distributor from around Evansville, IN. He purchased Champion Agate marbles made by Dave McCullough during the 1984-85 "New Old-Fashioned" era and marketed them to kids and others at fairs and flea markets around the area for many years. David Chamberlain mentions Charlie and his marbles at Joe's site. Charlie had quite a system, a combination of sorting and salesmanship: I was happy to get one of these sets from David a number of years ago. I think it's a fun way to catalog some of Champion's New Old-Fashioned marbles and can see why kids would find it fun to try to collect them too. In fact, I think it's still a great way for kids to get involved in the hobby and collecting. While some of the marbles can command $10+, the majority can be had for far less, and with a bit of hunting around the marble community, you could probably still complete Charlie's list and build a 'complete' set. The marble numbers read from left to right and top to bottom. The bottom row has two #25 variants, three #26 variants and the last marble is #27. Different views of the same marble are shown in each photo. There is considerable variation in some of the marbles, and #s 25 are not Champions (even though Charlie cataloged them as #CA25). The first two #25s are the light and dark variants Charlie describes in the list. The blue #26 is shown in David's article. Why the variation in the #26s? Who knows, perhaps the #26 position was limiting when he was building sets of 27 marbles. Regardless, there really are some great marbles in the set. Almost all are named. The most popular are probably the Pumpkin (#1, aka Hotwheels) and the Red Cloud (#4, aka Cherry Bomb). But I like the Honey Bee Slags (#10) with lots of clear. Here are a couple of more examples of those types. Edited November 7, 2023 by Ric Fixed links and updated photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Yes, that would be a fun project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Champion left and Ravenswood right. Transparent red/orange is not common on the Champions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Good clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 (edited) More 80s Champions  Edited November 7, 2023 by Ric Fixed photo link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeperman Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Furnace swirls have to be my favorite Champ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeperman Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Carmel base  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 8 hours ago, jeeperman said: Furnace swirls have to be my favorite Champ .... Â crazy cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 Mine too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 I'm starting to photograph my modest collection and thought these might be useful to someone. Currently sorting through a bulk bag of Champions I bought from Bob Block. These are the orange ones: A lot of variation in the amount of base colour showing and how well defined the pattern is, but you couldn't call the swirls very strongly defined on any of my sample. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdNargel Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 IMHO one of the best Furnaces out there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 Lovely example Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 More Champions I've colour sorted - I'd describe them as 'Sand': A lot of swirl variation and some size variation: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 Three orange on white based swirls that don't really fit with either group: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeperman Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 2 hours ago, EdNargel said: IMHO one of the best Furnaces out there No doubt a very nice example, Ed. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted May 23, 2016 Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 More Champions - white in a transparent blueish glass: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 They look very nice together. A bowl of pearls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 6 hours ago, Steph said: They look very nice together. A bowl of pearls. I've been enjoying sorting through the big bag of Champions. They're not showy marbles but I think they're under-appreciated as a manufacturer because they're so ubiquitous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Champion Bicentennial bag - probably a late fill one - mainly Champion clearies, a few Champion transparent swirls, game marbles and Bogard cat's and patches:    Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 I'm pretty sure I got one of those -- or half of one -- when I was 12. In our Christmas stockings in 1976 my brother and I got a bunch of clearies of different sizes.  I like to think it came from a Bicentennial bag.  That's when my love of clearies was born.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 23 minutes ago, Steph said: I'm pretty sure I got one of those -- or half of one -- when I was 12. In our Christmas stockings in 1976 my brother and I got a bunch of clearies of different sizes.  I like to think it came from a Bicentennial bag.  That's when my love of clearies was born.  Nice memory  As collectors it's easy to dismiss clearies, but they were popular with kids (and as a big kid I personally love the clearie pee-wees  ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Champion game marbles for a Canadian company: Copp-Clark. Note the bilingual spelling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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