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This page is dedicated to the Identification of the JABO Inc. Sammy Mountain, and Dave’s Appalachian Swirl (D.A.S.) Marbles beginning with the Experimental Runs in late 2007 – Today by marble master and legend Dave McCullough.

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2008

March 26th & 28th 2008 JABO Sammy Hogue Run

Marbles were run on the 5/8″ machine “Sammy Sparkles” and on the 3/4″ machine Sammy’s “Big Brother”. With Dave McCullough’s help and Sammy Houge’s glass, Dale Simmons ran the actual marbles for this historic run. This was the first of many more of what came to be known as the experimental runs.

JaboLand noted in their identification of these that they
put the “adventures into aventurine marble runs”.

May 18th, 2008 JABO Joker I (J.E.R.K.) the Originals

Jim King, Ed Parsons, Kevin Plummer, and Rick Hall (J.E.R.K.) w/ Dave McCullough and the JABO Crew.
Types: Oxblood’s, Parrots, Cranberries, Lutz-Aventurine Mixed.
Jim King (J), Ed Parsons (E), Rick Hall (R), Kevin Plummer (K), the J.E.R.K.’s. With Dave McCullough and the JABO Team preforming the furnace operations. These marbles are credited with the rebirth of collecting enthusiasm in 2008. Initial sales of individual pieces were over $100. The run was relatively short, with a total run time of approximately 15 hours of which more than 50 different examples were made. The Team used special care using padded catching bins to prevent the typical damage associated with touch marks, and bin marks.

Article by Matthew Davis: “JABO Joker I Cranberry Names and Families”
JABO 2008 Joker I Anatomy of a Cranberry

June 1st, 2008 JABO Madyia Run

This runs followed the J.E.R.K. Runs in 2008 and was named after Dave McCullough’s grand daughter. It was reported that they had some of the first added Gold Lutz to the molten glass stream as they were being produced. The late Jack Rogers and Dave McCullough were the investors. This is a very limited run, shorter than the Joker I run.

June 27th, 2008 JABO Joker 2nd Run (Oxblood Aventurine Series)

In 2010 on discussion boards contention arose over the used of the traditional name of Cobra as a CAC distinctive name and the naming of the Joker 2nd Run “Cobras” I offered up the name “Blood Vipers”

Article by Matthew Davis: “Blood Viper Names and Photographic Lighting”
Blood Viper Nests & Blood Vipers

September 11th & 12th, 2008 JABO Peltier Mansion Run

One of the earliest runs which came out of the JABO Marble Experiments in 2008 was the Peltier Mansion Marbles. These were the brain child of Boyce Lundstrum (1944-2012), who was a founding member of the Bullseye Glass Co. and a renowned Fusion Glass artist who loved pushing the edge in the glass art field. You can read more about Boyce here at the Washington Glass School Blog. On that journey he made many friends and became a avid collector of marbles. His passion lead to his purchasing of the Peltier Marble factory the Peltier Mansion which was annexed to the marble plant. He created the Peltier 1^st and 2^nd Run marbles which were a sparkler type which were largely given away. However he continued to tinker and test with a Miller Swirl Machine which was located on the Mansion property, but was frustrated by mechanical and other hindrances.

In late 2006, early 2007 Boyce with the assistance of his friend Michael Barton reached out to David McCullough who was the Vice President and Manager of the JABO Inc. Marble Company between 1991-2012, about doing a private run of marbles, and on September 11^th & 12^th 2008, this dream came to fruition.

Boyce along with Michael, and two additional friends John Triggs and James Armstrong, manned the JABO Equipment with the assistance of JABO team members, to make history happen. Boyce ever the glass tinker, insisted on complete control over the process of mixing and directing the glass production from beginning to end, an arrangement he has worked out with Dave McCullough ahead of time.

The resulting marbles included 19 families of marbles which included Red and Green Mica, Green, Black, and Red Aventurine, Yellow, White and Transparent based marbles, and the first ever Silver Metallic marbles. The Silver are among the rarest, if not the rarest JABO Experimental marbles ever produced. Michael Barton reported knowing of only 14 of which he knew, nine of which are featured here through his kind loan of the marbles for photography.

Boyce named most of the marbles, incorporating the name “Betty” into many of them. Among the most famous and recognizable are the “Pink Flamingos” which are a stark white base covered with a large pink patch accompanied by a dark black purple patch and green aventurine.

November 11th, 2008 JABO Eagle (aka Dirty Jobs) Run

Investor Hansel De Sousa along with Steve Smith worked together with Dave McCullough and JABO Team. This Run was made famous by being filmed and aired on the Discovery Channel’s TV Show “Dirty Jobs” starring Mike Rowe’s. The filming occurred while the Eagle run was being produced. The show aired in Season 7, in late 2010.

2009

2010

May 24th & 25th, 2010 JABO What a Tribute 1″ Run

2010 JABO What a Tribute

June 13th, 2010 JABO Joker Premium Run

2010 JABO Joker Premium Crystals

August 17th, 2010 JABO Joker Orbit Run

2010 JABO Joker Orbit Opaques

2010 JABO Joker Orbit Crystals

2011

April 18th, 2011 JABO Joker Gold Medal Run

2011 JABO Joker Gold Medals

2012

2013

2014

2015