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TMC Upcoming Shows
Fall 2024 Marble Show
Saturday November 2 from 8:00am-2:00pm
Room Trading: Thursday & Friday evenings October 31 & Nov 1
Hotel: Radisson Hotel, North @ Fossil Creek
2540 Meacham Blvd.
Fort Worth, Texas 76106
Room reservations: 817.625.9911
Show Coordinator: J. Lynn Johnson
Table Reservations: 940.300.3222 or Lynn.johnson@unt.edu
Spring 2025 Marble Show
Saturday, April 25 from 8:00 am-2:00 pm
Room Trading: Thursday and Friday evenings, April 23 & 24
Hotel: Courtyard by Marriott Austin Northwest/Lakeline
12833 Ranch Road 620 North
Austin, Texas 78750
Room Reservations: 512.580.0083
Show Coordinator: Carroll Collier
Table Reservations: 512.751.2945 or cdc2@flash.net
Newsletters
Our TMC Board is delighted to be sending you our 10th TMC Newsletter. We try to publish four newsletters a year; some years we make it and some we don’t.
TMC Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2024
Thanks Carroll and all of your team for coordinating our Spring 2024 Show—we all enjoyed the show and most of us were able to add to our marble collections. We had active Room Trading Thursday and Friday evening; great fellowship at our Friday evening meal; and the Saturday show was well attended with vendors and Walkin collectors. Our Fall Marble Show is scheduled for November 2; check the details below and reserve your room now.
TMC Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2024
Will this issue of the Newsletter reach our mailboxes prior to or after our Spring TMC Marble Show in Austin, April 20? Just as we are writing and printing this Newsletter, Carroll Collier is planning and organizing our Spring Show. In other words, our Newsletter Editors are sometimes speedier and sometimes slower than Carroll and his team. What is important, is for you and all of our members and friends to know about our 2024 shows and attend if you are able.
TMC Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2024
The calendar tells us that we are ‘out of the holiday period’ but marbles, kids, and Christmas are great gifts for most of us. Did you come out of the holidays with marble stories? The picture below is Sadie Johnson, Lynn Johnson’s Granddaughter. Sadie used her time away from school to make a marble run. Good work, Sadie.
TMC Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2023
This issue of our 2023 TMC Newsletter finishes our year; and, what a “marble year” it has been. Carroll Collier put together one of our very best shows in April. We had more attendance, vendors, and walk-in interest than we have ever had. And that was after Carroll had to find a new venue. Thank you, Carroll and Patty, for your time and energy.
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Running Rabbit Auctions
The identification of marbles is a first step to developing and enhancing collections. In this video series, Danny Turner will discuss machine made marbles and show some of the most colorful marbles ever produced.
Texas Marble Collectors (TMC) strives to help members and friends identify marbles with shows, Facebook page, and TMC Newsletters.
The Cole Avenue Marble Champion – A Marble Collection Won in the Schoolyard
During the heyday of marble competition in the 1950s, the VFW sponsorship of state competitions received a degree of public recognition and children’s interest. For example, our Newsletter provided Roger Mazurkewicz’s 1958 VFW Championship in New Jersey. Children, however, have ‘always had championships’ that were important and significant to themselves and sometime to the neighborhood.