TMC — 2023 Upcoming Shows
Fall Marble Show Saturday, October 28, 2023
Admission free — bring your marbles for identification & assessment of value
WHEN:
Saturday, October 28, 2023
ROOM TRADING:
Thursday and Friday evenings October 26 & 27
HOTEL:
Radisson Hotel—North @ Fossil Creek
2540 Meacham Bluv.
Fort Worth, Texas 76106
HOTEL RESERVATIONS: 817.625.9911
SHOW COORDINATOR: J. Lynn Johnson
TABLE RESERVATIONS: 940.300.3222 or Lynn.johnson@unt.edu
Newsletters
Our TMC Board is delighted to be sending you our 8th TMC Newsletter. We try to publish four newsletters a year; some years we make it and some we don’t.
TMC Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2023
It is summertime in Texas as we publish this newsletter. For those of us ‘of a certain age’, summertime in Texas was the perfect time for marble games. In the summer heat, kids would find a shade tree with plenty of packed dirt, sweep the area clean, select the marbles for targets, and draw the circle—game on.
Robert Keoghan, one of our members “of a certain age” from Seguin, remembers that he would always leave home on these summer days with a pants pocket containing a knife, two nickels (e.g., if he had cleaned out the barn), and marbles. He named his favorite shooter “Marbelie” and after fifty years continues to display “Marbelie” along with selected marbles he won in a summer competition with his brother, George.
What good memories. Read more in the newsletter.
TMC Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 4, May 2023
Were you able to attend our TMC Spring Marble Show? Carroll Collier and our Board produced a fine marble experience. With the Bluebonnets in bloom, it took a great display of marbles to compete; Carroll, our vendors, and guests gave the Bluebonnets good competition.
We had several rooms open Thursday evening; Friday was a very active evening—the Board covered the cost of our evening meal; 10 to 15 rooms opened before and after the evening meal. We set 25 tables Saturday. Six new collections came in; Joe Levell made marbles ‘just outside the back door’; and we had great walk-in activity. After completing our Spring Show, we start planning for our Fall Marble Show in October.
TMC Newsletter February 2023
This issue of our TMC Newsletter starts us on a new and exciting marble year. Our TMC Shows in 2022 reflected attendance that reached pre-pandemic levels if not exceeding 2019 shows.
TMC Newsletter November 2022
Our TMC Board is delighted to be sending you Issue 6 of our TMC Newsletter. We try to publish four newsletters a year; some years we make it and some we don’t.
TMC Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2022
Our TMC Board is delighted to be sending you Issue 6 of our TMC Newsletter. We try to publish four newsletters a year; some years we make it and some we don’t.
TMC Newsletter Volume I, Issue 5, February 2022
Our TMC Board is delighted to be sending you Issue 5 of our TMC Newsletter. We try to publish four newsletters a year; some years we make it and some we don’t.
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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.