Thank You for the fine memories

[NCHinAK]

Wow, I just spent a few hours reading through every post on the Marbles board. I've looked at every picture posted and read darn near every word. What memories this all brings back. I never imagined that marbles had a monetary value. To be truthful I haven't thought about marbles in about 30 years.

I'm an Army brat and as a young boy we played marbles all summer long in Germany. This would have been mid 70's. In the pictures I see so many marbles that we played with as kids, aggies, slaggies, snakies (swirls), many of the old german marbles. Cateyes and clearies were for the slingshot. Really brings back fond memories. Thank you to all that have posted pictures and thank you to the fine people with the knowledge of where and when they were made.

I'm not a collector of anything, but after having spent a few hours on this board and another hour or so on Ebay I may just have to start up collecting some specimens that bring back all these fond memories. Is anyone aware of any marble collectors/dealers in Alaska? I imagine for $50 or so I can relive some of the more exciting marble games of my childhood.

And James, if you're reading this where on earth did you get all the fine marlbes I always won from you? You seemed to have a neverending supply of the most coveted marbles even though you always lost. Looks like I should have saved them all.

 

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[Road Dog]

I must warn you. Collecting marbles can be addictive. As a kid in the late 60's and early 70's I remember the Marble Kings, Puries (Clearies), and the Cateyes mostly. We'd put a big circle out in the dirt and try and smack the others marbles out with our Shooters. My sister still has our marbles we played with.
Not aware of any collectors up in Alaska, but ya never know.

 

[Marbleguy]

Here's an Alaskan marble-lover..

http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=6854

 

[NCHinAK]

I received a couple of very nice PM's from members on this board regarding help in starting a collection. As summer passes into fall I'll have more time to correspond with these people regarding starting a collection. I've spent a bit more time on Ebay and some of the other forums dedicated to marbles and I just can't get over the fact that we had so many 'old' marbles to play with in Germany. I suppose that as kids left they gave their marbles to their buddies, like I did, and that could be the reason so many of the 'old' marbles were there. I imagine that the marbles that we played with then wouldn't be worth much now, because of all the flea bites, nicks and chips. There was one kid, James, he seemed to have a never ending supply of very nice marbles. He lost much more than he ever won, but just kept coming back with the most beautiful marbles...suppose his dad was a collector?

Road Dog: Yup, I'm getting the feeling that collecting marbles can become quite an addiction. Like I posted earlier, I'm not really a collector of anything, but the marbles are drawing me in. We very rarely played 'circles'. We would dig a small hole in the ground, pick a marble from the opponents collection that I wanted, he'd pick one from my collection and we'd put those in the hole or 'pot'. We would draw a line in the dirt about 15 feet away and one of us would shoot first towards the pot. We'd take turns trying to sink our shooter into the 'pot'. Once someone got their shooter in the 'pot' the other person had one more chance to make it into the 'pot' with their shooter, if they missed the first person to make it in got the marbles. If the other person sunk their shooter into the 'pot' we'd start all over. Was a good time. Wish I'd saved all my marbles and baseball cards from then.

Marbleguy: I checked your link out. I have never been to Juneau but when time permits I will check out some of the 'Antique' shops here in Anchorage. I'll also start another forum account and hopefully get in touch with Marbleheadak from that link.Thank you for your info.