New bags are made with Air Force, Army, and Navy headers, something never made by the genuine Alox Manufacturing Company. This has a genuine counterpart, but the original is net mesh and not polyvinyl.Īnother type of marble originally only distributed in net mesh but which is reproduced as polyvinyl bags is Alox Agates (see Fig. The difference between the original and the reproduction is that the header of the former will read "Play the game, be fair." while on the latter it reads "Play the square, be fair" (see Figs. Although most new bags have regular headers, a few new bags are made in the bottle hanger style including Coca Cola and Pepsi versions.Īnother common reproduction is the Mr. Some of the new beverage headers seen include 7-Up, Hires, Nehi, Pal Ade, Dr. 6), not the original "bottle hanger" header (Fig. Most of the new bags are made with regular headers (see Fig. Now there are many new bags being made to take advantage of the recent interest in beverage collectibles. Many beverage companies of the 1940s-1950s gave away bags of marbles attached to their bottles as promotional premiums. To date there has been little effort to educate buyers aside from a few Internet sites and marble collecting books. Many people who resell them have no idea the bags are not genuine. Obviously, there is a large profit to be made from these fakes. Most fakes appear to be originating in Florida and are sold in bulk for as low as $2.00 each, and often resold for up to $100. There are two basic types of these fake bags: reproductions, which are made to resemble actual original packaging and "fantasies," which have no genuine counterparts. Unfortunately, such packaging is fairly easy to reproduce, and in the last few years a number of fake bags has appeared, usually at flea markets, in antique malls and stores, and on Internet auction services. Polyvinyl packaging includes the bag itself and a paper header attached to it, usually with a pair of staples. This became especially popular throughout the 1950s and into the succeeding decade. Several companies not only distributed these bags under their own brand names, but also sold them to corporations that used the marble packaging as promotional giveaways. This latter type, usually simply called "poly bags," was used by a number of marble manufacturers. The first marble packaging included cardboard and tin boxes, and then net mesh bags, and eventually, beginning around the late 1940s, polyvinyl packaging. And as with any type of collectible, such marbles in their original packaging are much more desirable than those that are not. It is only in this period that collectors have turned their attention from handmade German marbles of the latter half of the nineteenth century and very early twentieth century to include the machine made marbles that eventually supplanted the former around the time of the First World War. However, in recent years marbles have become one of the most popular types of collectible toys. The hobby of collecting antique marbles is already several decades old. The police noted that another set of angels, similarly reported as stolen in the carabineri’s database, was recently returned to another Guardia Sanframondi church after they were located in a Milan antiques shop and recognized by the church pastor.Reproduction and "Fantasy" Marble Packaging In a statement, the carabinieri noted that churches in the area had been subjected to numerous thefts after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake leveled huge swaths of southern Italy. They were formally handed over Tuesday to Italy at a ceremony at the French Embassy. Police said the collector was ignorant of the angels’ origin and offered to return them without any legal fight. Sebastian church in Guardia Sanframondi, northeast of Naples, on Dec. Italy’s art police said Tuesday that the angels, decorated with strategically placed vine of leaves and fruit, had been stolen from the St. Italy’s carabinieri art police said the unnamed collector had tried to resell the angels at an antiques shop in Avignon, France, before his planned move from France to Portugal when French art police flagged them as possible stolen goods. ROME (AP) - A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th-century marble angels from a Neapolitan antiques shop two decades ago has returned the winged “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church.
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