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joestreet · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Central Indiana

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve made it to a show. Fortunately for me the good ole Indiana Marble Club puts on two shows a year, one in Indianapolis and one in Kokomo. As usual the show was great. Here are a few pictures and comments.

1. Some of the folks that make it happen. Club President, Beth Morris.
2. Greg Morris and his young marble collecting protégé.
3. Kim W, Kim is the clubs Secretary.
4. And last but not least, Mike A. Mike is the clubs VP. On a side note, I always wonder what people at the hotels think when they see a bunch of people walking around with pistol cases.

5. Some of the folks attending the show. Here we have Dick Goddard hamming it up.
6. Larry is a collector that is interested in Chinas.
7. Here we have a lady named Rhonda. Rhonda was Steve S. around anywhere? I know you usually have to remind him when its time for the show Smile

8. Eddie W. hanging out in Chuck’s room.

9. Art “The Jokester” Jones.
10. The white marble in the lower right says “Over the Hill” on it. For some reason Art thought that I looked like I needed it so he gave it to me. Thanks Art Smile

11. Some of Art’s marbles.
12. Art had several boxes at the show. Here is a nice Akro box.

13. I look forward to seeing Bud & Lonnie at the shows. They always seem to be enjoying their selves.
14. Some of the marbles they had on display.
15. And some more…
16. And a few more.

17. Chuck and Eddie.
18. Some of Chuck’s marbles. The big Bengal Tiger was a knockout.
19. For the Vitro fans.
20. A nice case of $5 marbles, there were some real deals in there.

21. Dale DeHart.
22. The Twins, I’ve shown these marbles before. Mike Adams wrote a great article about them that you can read at http://www.joemarbles.com/3Marble%20Articles/Mike%20Adams/0004%20twins_reunited.htm.
23. Some more of Dale’s marbles.
24. Here are some more of Dale’s hand mades.

25. Dan Crocki and an unnamed collector.
26. Some of Dan’s large selection of marbles.
27. And another tray…
28. And some more.

29. The folks from Kokomo Opalescent Glass Company were there.
30. They brought some of their new marbles with them.
31. From what I understand the marbles were manufactured on Jabo machines using KOG company glass.
32. They had some nice sets put together for reasonable prices. If you would like to contact them through their website check them out at http://www.kog.com/contact-us.html?sef_rewrite=1

33. Friday evening before the show, from the right. Koko Ken, Rick, Dan and a gentleman that I failed to get his name.
34. The dug Kokomo’s that they were looking at.
35. Mike Meade.
36. Mike had an interesting thing going on. He had made box sets of all the Jabo runs. I think that he excluded the tank washes but each box contains seven rows of five marbles from each run. He currently has 42 runs represented and is selling them as a collection. If you want his contact info e-mail me.

37. George Sourlis and a herd of young marble collectors.
38. A couple of really nice marbles that George brought (bottom two).
39. George showing the kids the wonders of magnification.
40. Next kid looking through George’s famous magnifyers.

41. Beth giving Rocky her raffle prize. The club had a free raffle of very nice items that were donated by the vendors.
41. My daughter with her raffle winnings.

If you made it to the end thank you for taking the time to check it out! Also thanks to Indiana Marble Club as well as all of the vendors and collectors for a great show.[url][/url]

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

Thanks for another great report Joe!!!!Lot of big smiles on the kids. Looks like they were having some fun.
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CATFISH · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 488 Location: Montana

agreed, nice report
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Post up some of your killer mibs!

joestreet · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Central Indiana

Gentlemen, Thank you for the nice comments, Joe.

that1 · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 365 Location: here

These pics are great to show some of the show action and I enjoy reading up on the goings on. #22 pic has a cool story that goes along with it, thanks for the link there as well.

richsantaclaus · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:26 am Post subject:

Looks like everyone is having the time of their lives.