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[Steph]

Moss Agates from Akro boxes on eBay:










There are some unusual ones in there. One on the bottom row looks opalescent. Are they all Akro?




Here's a pic Galen posted. He said it was from Mike's Salesman Sample case.






Note 1: More than one marble guide has described Akro Moss Agates as having translucent colored patches. This is sometimes the case but it seems evident that the patches could also be transparent or opaque.

Some of the bases will fluoresce. Some will not.


Note 2: It has been reported that Akro sold their ade marbles under the name Moss Agate.

[Steph]

Some Moss-Agate-like Masters from ebay auctions:



EDIT: I think the marbles on the left in this first box are actually what Master called Cloudys. And the marbles on the right are what they called Meteors. (See ads here.)















These were sold separately but I am under the impression that they came from the same box:







To show another color, here is a box Al posted which belonged to Les Jones.





Opaque orange also appears to be an option. For an example, see p. 122 of American Machine-Made Marbles.

[Steph]

Peltier Acme Realers:



Famous box, posted at many sites




A Realer close-up:



Source: ebay auction, Redcougar725






More Realer pix








Plus, some of Pelt's other patches look sort of mossy.

[Steph]

Moss Agates found at the Alley site in Sistersville:



(scanned from p. 42 of American Machine-Made Marbles)



Alley marbles and cullet dug from the site by Sandy:

[Steph]

Did anyone else do mossy type marbles? From time to time I hear someone say Vitro made them but I don't remember seeing any examples.





There are some modern, foreign ones with translucent bases.


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[zaboo]

hey steph, nice pics and thread! but one thing I would add... the early Akro mosses were moss swirls. not patches. the same patterning you might see in lemonade oxbloods etc.

[Steph]

Thanks Dani. And John.

Yes, I was trying to sort out the patches - or at least see if there was any chance for me to do it! - so I sidestepped the swirly or corky moss agates.




p.s., did you know that to Master their Meteors were translucent? Some mibs I've been calling Cloudies I shouldn't have. I made an edit about that above. Master included "Moss Agate" style mibs under both names in their ads. Also, the ads have at least one pic of what I thought were Cloudies but they called 'em Meteors.