Marvelous Mibs Marbles Collectors Zone

Ponkochan · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

EDIT: I moved this post from the one with Craig's boxes, because it makes more sense over here. Smile

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Hey, let's make this even more confusing!! Laughing

Actually, I think that because of the number of times we've seen the question, "Is this a Citrus?" (hehe), this is a great topic to help answer/clarify much of the mystery.

Smitty (where is he, BTW? anyone talked to him lately?) says that a Citrus is "a white base with orange, lemon, lime stripes.....THE CITRUS" and then mentions that there are two sub-types of the Citrus. He says that "One type has a pastel green while the other has a translucent or relish type green."

What's been confusing to me, is that I've seen some Citruses that have very little "orange" in them......mostly green and yellow. So these look more like translucent Lemon-Limes. I guess that must be what accounts for a lot of the confusion about what exactly makes a Citrus.

Here's a picture that Smitty posted of his Citruses. It looks like there are both types (with the different green) that he's mentioned showing in this box.

Here's a group shot that Charles (moremarbles4me) has posted. I think that both of the ones on the top are the 2 different Citrus sub-types.

The next ones, I think, depict how confusing this whole subject can be. Laughing

Here are 2 that Alan has listed as Citruses. Would both of these be considered a Citrus?

This next one was listed and sold as a Citrus, by "rothbob" on ebay:

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Lizzy

MARBLEMASK · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 420 Location: Readstown Wisco.

I would say fruit stripe on the Bottom 2 includeing the Rbob marb
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crappie_man_7 · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Quincy, IL

I recently aquired 4 Citrus's and will try and post pictures as soon as my 5 day probation is over. Laughing

Ponkochan · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:30 am Post subject:

lstmmrbls · Site Admin Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 696

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Ponkochan · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:48 am Post subject:

Allright! You opened the door for me to ask this question again, Galen. Laughing

When I posted this pic w/labels before, Chris (tankgrrl29) mentioned that the one that I don't have labled is a Xmas Tree. But we couldn't ever determine if the one that do I have labeled is a Xmas Tree, along with the unlabeled one. In other words..............are there 2 versions of the Citrus Xmas Tree?

Damn, I hope someone knows the answer to this.............it's been driving me crazy for some time! hehe

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Lizzy

lstmmrbls · Site Admin Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 696

Hopefully a Pelt collecter will let us both know(LOL)
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moremarbles4me · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:28 am Post subject:

There is two definete types of the lemon/lime citrus.....one with opaque green ribbons and one with transparent green ribbons. We have seen known examples of the xmas tree, liberty, plum, blueberry and the oddball of the bunch ketchup and mustard. Being lucky enough to go to 4-5 shows a year I've seen several that have oddball colors but would be considered Citrus type marbles. I think the unmarked marble in your photo is a xmas tree........the one marked xmas tree is one of those tweeners that does'nt fit the mold but would still be considered a Citrus. These marbles may have been made between color changes hence a tweener.

Charles

Ponkochan · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the input, Charles. Very Happy

It helps clarify for me that there are probably variations in all the Citrus types.
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