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This one is nuts!

Marble King, pretty colors 😊

Found with Tiger Eyes.

Antique store find today in this bag. 3/4” to boot! Booth also offered 15% ofF Needed something good to happen today!

Several oxblood Greiners and a couple lutz!

I needed to downscale my display and this is what I came up with The floating shelfs are new and work fantastic, they have a lip that stops the marbles from escaping. The lights with shelfs are super convient for boards and my peanut jar. Hope you like and it gives you a few ideas . That was the good the bad is the jars and boxes stashed away .

Ultimate Japanese transitional score from the Seattle marble show!!!

I purchased a huge bowl of marbles from an online auction and picked them up this morning. Wow! The Bowl was huge ( high 100's) and filled with marbles like these. What do you think?

This is an article from " Glass World " magazine, 1932 Nov. issue. It describes "Naoyuki Seike's glass marbles" (硝子マーブル　清家直行) were viewed by the emperor at Osaka Prefectural Trade Hall on 15 Nov. 1932.　"天覧硝子製品"　means glass products which were viewed by the emperor.

Just acquired this mib in a lot . took it into the sun for some pics Has an a crazy base glass like opal with some blue tint or something the cork I thought was black but it is dark dark purple . I got some shots of the blue tint it is crazy it's like 2 marbles when the light shines through the blue.

Any ID on this one? Peltier maybe?

Hi Aidan, the marble was a good buy! I'm happy for you.😃 Japanese marble collectors would immediately rush to the marble if it is at only 10 dollars. Normally they cost 5 times more... The marble in question is a lampworked marble which was probably made in Osaka. The glass is almost seedless and the color is good. The lampworker used glass rods which were supplied by a glass maker specializing in making rods and cullet for other fields of glass industry. The time period is late Meiji, Taisho or early Showa. Childhood labor was common at that time. They were made before the coming of transitionals and machine mades. To name the makers who made lamp-worked marbles for export at that time, they were Tokujiro Oi (Osaka), Wakamatsu Yoneda (Osaka) and Hanshichi Kamei (Kyoto). Domination of Japanese marbles in Asian countries continued until 1954 when Hong Kong started marble production.

Odd one

the middle two marbles look like Vitro All Reds, the top marble could be a Vitro Caged Cat's Eye, the far right marble is likely either Vitro or Marble King but it's difficult to tell without more angles. The blue on the left looks like it may be a West Virginia Swirl, though I wouldn't be able to name the maker. The green speckled one is most likely either a foreign marble or a Vacor. Welcome to the Marble Connection!

Nice ones today

A Green transparent Spiral Snake on a translucent base and an Orange transparent Spiral Snake.

Happy Akro Friday! I LOVE that Orange, Tan, and Brown @davesnothere unusual! Here are two Prize Names with that really solid Black. The White one is 13/16"

I picked these up for 25 bucks at thrift store in town, I know next to nothing about original packaging. The marbles inside seemed liked Ravenswood and I thought everything looked the way it should. I read some past posts about fantasy bags, and just how the packaging looks old with newer marbles inside, just want to see if I overpayed or it is actually the original packaging. Sorry about the photos, hard to get a good photo through the plastic. Thanks for all of you knowledge that is shared in advance.

Happy Akro Friday.

Congratulations, that's a great group!

I think it's a sloppy Akro Auger - maybe "lazy" is a better word . . .

With Oxblood

Seike's cat’s eyes in different colors. . The yellow is like neon yellow. I enjoyed taking pictures of white-purple variants. I was fascinated by the shifts of colors. Some fracture. Bigger vanes always have the risk, when the colors are not compatible enough. I guess no marble makers put them in an oven for annealing.

Here is what the online auction photo looked like and the photo I posted was after organizing them. I was worried I bid too high until I picked them up and the bowl was big.

I think these will work for Swirly Saturday . . .

Size is ⅝" not sure on it

Some sweet Alligator Eyes I was lucky enough to buy last year.

Marbles and stuffed animals Lucky we had a magic frog and a magic well 😉👍🏻

Every time we putted a stuffed animal on the crown of the frogg when he was away....magic 😃 A magic frogg Just say the words abbracadabra 😃 Full bag when he goes home again 🍀

Here are a couple of good Akros from brother Billy's archive . . .

Few new Akro’s this week. Maybe the 2nd Crow for our collection.

Thinking of the time and my culture, the viewing was really something. Seike must have been very honored with it!

Boo Yah !!! Oh Yes, it is, and this ribbon pattern sets it apart from common Sunsets. The ribbons are condescended into one ribbon that contains 2-3 colors. Common Rainbos have ribbons that are each one separate color and aren't as tight as these. The little Horse Hair ribbon really sets this one apart. As a PeltHead. This is a Top Shelf Rainbo with lots of Tiny Bubbles.🔥

Does anyone know what this one is? it's larger than the other marbles in the bag I got and has an interesting design.

Man! That's pretty impressive that the glass products were viewed by the emperor himself! Not that any marbles don't have history, but Japanese transitionals seem to have some particularly impressive history. 🙂

In a bag I got from Goodwill there are multiple of these red and white, and blue and white marbles. They aren't corkscrew, I think they are ribbon and patch?

The Seller wrapped these in the brown paper. I just thought it was kinda cool 🔥 RAR

11/16. Thoughts on maker? Akro that didn’t cork?

ID on this one Facenating fellow UV reactive and backlighted it First 3 pictures is the one for ID The rest are nice mint Veiligglas Opaque and Wirepull Enjoy the pictures Comments welcome 🤹‍♂️ Thanks

Cobra

Clean it w fine steel wool, the rust stains will come off. it may take some elbow grease

A 1" Cat with metallic and a Brushed Patch with Oxblood.

Nice Brush Patch

Size is ⅝" sorta has the Christmas colors but idk if it is a Christmas tree

I made a large batch of Sheperd's Pie yesterday afternoon....80/20 ground beef, 5 pounds of homemade mashed potatoes, Veg-all, and shredded mild cheddar cheese. Diced onions and a few shots of Worshchershire sauce while the beef was frying. Mixed the ground beef with the Veg-all and a few handfuls of cheddar cheese, spread on the mashed potatoes on top of that layer, then topped it off with two more handfuls of cheddar cheese. Salt and pepper the ground beef and mashed potatoes while making to your preference. Bake at 350 for about 30-40 minutes or until cheese is melted, your preference. Yummy!

Hit the local antique show last weekend. found 8 small bags, plus 7 very collectible old straight razors. Bags were older ziplock type, total price of $36. There were stickers under the paper labels, total price of ~$240. keepers are in the bowl.

Two Specials, Red, White, and Black. The first one is 21/32" The second is 11/16"

February is flying by like a Kro... remember this article... the answers to who-dun-it and a lot more will be revealed in (the first issue) The Kro Issue No.000. If you haven't signed up to get it in your email inbox... what are you waiting for? https://akroagatemarbles.com/the-store/ Akroholics Strong! Good night 😴

Looks like early Alley.