Marvelous Mibs Marbles Collectors Zone

deanwesleysmith · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 30

Since I have made a few posts in other places, figured I had better say hi here. I live out on the Oregon Coast and have been collecting for twenty years or so. I get to do a lot of treasure hunting trips just for fun, so I tend to find some really fun marbles in really back woods places in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and other places, including longer treasure trips to the midwest. For a short time (1 year)I opened a comic and toy store here on the coast and sold some marbles out of it, but just sold the store, so now back to being able to travel freely, so it should be some fun finds coming soon, I hope.

I was sent here by one of your fine members when I mislabeled something on eBay. I haven't sold a marble there since. <g> I go by Pokerhat on eBay. And for a half year or so I have just been lurking here, learning everything I can. This site is fantastic! Thanks for keeping it up.

Cheers
Dean

harbor · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 180 Location: Big Sky Country

Hello Dean..its Catherine..spent some time with you recently at your shop in Lincoln City! Nice to see you here...hows the weather at the coast?>
Have you found out what the mib with the hole drilled through it is yet?
Thanks for the great marbles, and the joys of the vending machine!
Take care
Catherine
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Rockhounding has evolved into marble obsessing!Just want to learn all I can about these lovely works of art, so have patience with my questioning, and I will sit appreciatively and listen!

deanwesleysmith · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 30

Hi back, Catherine. Great contacting you here and meeting you in person.

I just sold the store and will be taking the big case out, but my wonderful store manager is the one buying it from me and she wants me to keep marbles in the store, so I will be supplying her with some good stuff, including keeping the machine full. <g>

Hope the drive home was a safe one.

Cheers
Dean

kris7047th · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 777 Location: Monroe,Michigan

Hi Craig ! Sorry that I am a few months late. LOL Craig knows my daugter Emily. They both graduated from OSU together from the school of Optometry last year.
Kris

wvglass · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 108 Location: West Virginia

Hello. I'm new here and thought I'd better get around to the introductions page. I'm William from Clarksburg, WV. I live about a 10 minute walk from the old Akro site and have lived here my whole life, save for my college years. I've always had marbles but didn't start getting into collecting until a few years ago . . . 2002 or so. I missed the heydey of digging (and am not disappointed about it--those could be rough times). I have a lot of interesting dug marbles that I ought to post sometime, though there are a couple which just cannot be photographed. I have mostly Akros, though I do have a few contemporaries, a couple MFC bricks, and a handful of this or that, some I can't identify. There's some other odd stuff some of us can't quite identify--some of it dug there at the plant even.

I think Clarksburg has something of a bad stigma--perhaps rightfully so. There's a lot of drama and competition and greed and arrogance. Know-it-alls. When the "dig" happened last fall I stayed as far away from it as I could. I am in it for the history and the beauty of these Akro marbles. Seems like most people here are in it for the $$money$$, and that, again perhaps rightfully, has given Clarksburg a bad rap.

I probably know a few of you already through Ebay. I look forward to sharing and gaining knowledge here!

bigjoe6220 · Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Oregon

Hi,My name is Joel,I started collecting marbles when i was around 10 years old.My dad had a junk yard and he would bring home marble and coins he found in the cars.He would take me to the antique shops and pick up a few marbles now and then.I put them up and last year i found them again 30 years later!!I have been a red line (hot wheels)Collector for the last 3 years but now i am back on track with my marbles.I bought this old guys collection of marbles.Between what i had and those and what i have been buying off of e-pay my collection is Growing!!!I live in Oregon not many marble shows around the coast!!!Thanks for letting me join!I hope to learn alot here.

tankgrrl29 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

hi joe, welcome to the board! sounds like you have a good stash there. i hope you post pictures for us. (the board won't allow the posting of pictures until you have been a member for a week and have 6 posts)

~chris

deanwesleysmith · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 30

Hey, Joel, glad you made it. Have fun looking back through all the old posts. Wonderful stuff here.

See you around the store, although the nifty marble case is now up in my office. <g>

Cheers, Dean

tankgrrl29 · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:29 am Post subject:

oops, i meant "joel"......

i also forgot to ask if you had seen the marble show thread. there's a great show coming up in july in tacoma. lots of knowledgable, friendly collectors with some great marbles to show off.

FeelingMarbleous · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 32 Location: Hamilton, Ohio

Hello everyone just want to introduce myself my name is Kevin i live in Hamilton,OH and i have found a new love, yep you guessed it Marbles!! i have only been collecting a few weeks but my god, i have never obsessed over anything like this in my life... i go to bed thinking of marbles i dream of marbles and i wake up every day and look at marbles 24/7 rather it be eBay, Books or all the wonderful forum sites!

It seems that the hobby is very fun and the people i have been chatting with and meeting here locally are down right the most generous and down to earth people, and i just want to say i am very proud to be part of the Hobby and Community Smile Even though i am a NEWB ! So if you see me asking silly questions please bare with me as i am just curious and very eager to become a expert on Marbles ! Feel free to email me or ask any questions !