On target. Finding a target ball.

[bottlediger]

very nice ball. My buddie dug one over a decade ago in the dump we used to dig, If I remeber correctly it was cobalt. Im still waiting to dig mine. I have a beautiful target ball thrower just need a ball to get the nice pair.

Digger Ry

 

[blobbottlebob]

Hey Mike,
10K is a ton of cash. I assume that those were rare and spectacular. I hope that when you say you were 'involved' in the dig, that you were involved with splitting up the finds (or the proceeds).

Hey Jamie,
Thanks for the kind words about the story. I would love to collect these things but they are too rare and pricey. If I could find enough to start a decent collection, I would consider it.

Hey appliedlips,
I was not aware of the ON TARGET publication at the time I wrote this story. It seemed like exactly the right phrase to sum up an adventure finding a target ball. It makes sense as a title for their magazine. I have seen some of the galleries since then online and I can see why people love them. Some of them are really amazing.

Hey Bottledigger,
Anytime you find a cobalt target ball, I'd say you had a good day. Man, that would be awesome. (Just writing about it makes me want to jump back into the water and look for more!) Any chance that you still have a picture of it?

 

[CALDIGR2]

Here's a pic of one of the SF balls. They are embossed Liddle and Kaeding/Agents/San Francisco. Finch turned one down. Too rich for his blood, I guess. He snoozes, he loses.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Wow Mike. Is this one yours? The embossing is great. You know, mine could be worth 10 grand too (if it just had a few rows of lettering). I assume that this was rare and unheard of before that?

 

[blobbottlebob]

Hey Eric,
Check this out. A while back I mentioned that even though we are diving, we are still crawling around in the mud. This is a great shot of my buddy Jim just getting out of a swampy mud hole covered in muck and weeds.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Here's a closer look at his face. This picture is even better than I remembered!

 

[blobbottlebob]

Hey! Check this out. I ran across a target ball on ebay that I think is similar to mine. Maybe a little cleaner and lighter in color but its got nothing in crudeness. This just sold for almost $200 on ebay. Pretty cool. Mine is still not for sale. Offers of lobsters are still welcome. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260677839221&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

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[LC]

I have never seen a target ball except for in pictures , and the ones I got to see were simply beautiful , and as stated demand high prices as they are very hard to find intact . I would also bet that when this crazy hobby of collecting glass first started , there were possibly a good many of them that would show up here and there for a while .

 

[blobbottlebob]

LC, Mine is not one of the unbelievable ones, but if you're ever in the Milwaukee area, send me an email and I would be happy to show it to you. I would collect these in a heartbeat if I could find a few. (There's no way I could start a whole new collection where I had to buy every expensive piece, though.)

 

[cowseatmaize]

I don't think we have much of a chance of finding target balls around here

Wayne, I bought one at a barn sale in the 70's. It was being sold with a few fishnet floats. They even put a net on it. I sold it for $180 a few years back.