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I always liked my Limeade with yellow.

Scored a .66" ghost latticino for 9 dollars

Think i got some 😃

A few Mountaineers . . .

Nice find this morning in the Netherlands Nice to find something like this here

How they look?

Actually you have it backward. The Westite Glass factory in Weston, WV had a fire that stopped their production. (Weston is about a 35/40 drive from Clarksburg.. uphill both ways! 🤣). The Akro Agate Company aquired all the molds Westite had in 1936. Thus focusing on glassware and childrens playsets as their production on marbles took a backseat and pretty much declined to nothing in the later 1930s as is evident by both the appearance and quality of marbles they did produce seasonally in the 1940s. Akros focus was on glassware in their last decade before they closed. .. and closed profitable. Akro Agate Company dissolved in Akron, Ohio, debt free, owing no taxes as a business. They were successful and closed their doors for good in good standing on Tuesday, April 24, 1951 with a final on~site auction and sale. The Akro Agate Company was profitable.

This lemon isn't quite ripe . . .

Awesome find! 😃 It's incredible that cat's eyes were produced so early. When I first started collecting, everyone (at least in the US) thought that cat's eyes were invented in 1949. This new information pushes that date back by a whole 10 years. I wonder if these prewar cat's eyes were exported to the US? It would be interested to see if any turn up in antique shops.

vacor love…

Some might say it's a helmet-style patch but Helmets are Vitros and they have a stripe. Here is a full team . . . Some are harder to find than others.

I do think it's Akro but when people talk about "chocolate" they are usually referring to the base glass. Like Billy McCaleb's Chocolate Oxblood . . .

Good morning! Akro Friday 1. Oxblood 11/16" * Edit * Pretty certain this one is not Akro after a discussion on it 2. Blueblood with Aventurine 3. Yellow and Blue Popeye 21/32" 4. Yellow and Blue Popeye 5. Superman colors Special 23/32" 6. Yellow and Green on Green Special

Lemon colored Prize Name, 5/8" More of a Lemon Meringue Pie (not an Akro name, just a reference to the color) than a Lemonade

Here is a galactic planet:

Another one of brother Billy's favorites - he loved AV. Billy's marble and pics.

Akro Ware--we have not seen much lately. The blue one is made from the Molds that were purchased after Akro went belly up. I do not remember who made them. Same molds--pretty cool--part of my collection for sure. I think that we got this one from the wife's Grandmother--even cooler imho. Akro--On!!

This is a Japanese magazine for photography, "Camera", November issue 1939. It features a photograph being entitled "Marbles" by Kan-ichi Hashimoto. The description below the photo reads " Late March, Tesser f/4.5, aperture f/11, Pan-F, 1/10sec, Yae FS paper, MQ developer, "Marbles" Kan-ichi Hashimoto, (1st exhibition of the Amateur Photography Federation of Tokyo Department Store/s)". We see Stripeys, cat's eyes and a few dark looking marbles on the palms. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/ja/pid/1501861/1/41?keyword=びー玉　橋本

Sounds like I have about $600 worth of marbles and I wasn't even looking for them. What I found was even more rare. These rare oxbloods I'll show you. They all came from the same estate purchase by a antique hunter who sells mostly antique and new clothes and toys. I'll have to get back at you tomorrow. I have to be at a party. 🥳

Some day, I will try to take individual photos of the marbles in that CODEG box, AIko. Your last comparison of the marble I got from Winnie with the one in the box is part of the reason I still think the boxed marbles are Veiligglas. 🙂

Asian - Imperial type.

I couldn't decide what to leave behind, so I negotiated a deal for the whole lot. I'm pretty happy with this

Keep it coming!!!

Yes - a West Virginia Swirl.

X2

Master, IMO.

Master definitely made some like this but there are similar foreign ones too.

The owners / former owners would probably know their competitors over the years and may know which competitors made the "marbles made in Mexico" that were purchased by Imperial and others.

Just a run-of-the-mill Vitro patch, IMO.

Side by side with 2 Conquerors on the right that have white almost covering the transparent base.

If you want to learn Alley, I would say you must get the WV Swirls identification book. It has Alleys sorted into the three main production locations, thousands of images of them. It's only available here: https://allaboutmarbles.com/wvswirls/

2001 JABO Classic "Rebel" (3/4")

This marble is tough because of the colors. Akro, Alley and CAC all used the combination of yellow and red. The red does not look CAC on my monitor, but that could just be my monitor, other's monitors may display it differently. To me, it looks mostly Alley but that could easily change if I had the marble in hand. I think this marble is a good example of why the accuracy of color reproduction is so important for proper marble ID. As I always say, first thing to do before you upload a photo for ID is to make sure the photo on your monitor actually looks like the marble in hand. My bet is that was done here but slight differences in the way color is reproduced on different monitors can throw off an ID too. At this point, I'd want to see this marble in hand before I made a call one way or another.

A few of Billy's good ones . . .

And I really didn't mean to sound harsh. I have an aversion to marketing hype, in general. I know people collect all sorts of marbles. I like a lot of marbles others would consider junk and I am sure I have thrown away 1000s of marbles others might consider valuable. There is no accounting for taste, one person's killer is another person's reject. If you had titled this post "Unique Ghostly Spiral", I probably wouldn't have said a word.

I call this a Tossed Salad. There are quite a few examples in this group for learning general ID’s. Just pick out your favorites and post pics. As for price? Uuuuuugh. Maybe $25ish. Don’t pass on the sport marbles unless he wants a dollar for each one. That’s all I got with this group. I hope someone else chimes in here on the price for this group🔥 RAR

This marble is short on striping glass. I doubt it would have cleared QC.

Akro IMO.

Any ideas 🔥 RAR

Just poking around in the archives and came across these No. 4 Conquerors on colored transparent glass. I've always liked that teal color . . .

X2 with Ric. This one has a less than common green transparent base glass included. It looks like this one came from a beach either from the Great Lakes or the Ocean. I would be happy to find it on the beach during a walk. I just found a marble in my garden that baffles me--a railroad (industrial) marble---you all know--the greenish ones filled with folds---the tracks are about 200 yards away--lol. Maybe a crow picked it up and hid it just for me😁. I still picked it up and cleaned it like it was a gemstone. We all love this stuff. Marble--On!!

I was thinking Tiger Eye Type I but the 2 on the left have the same color band, I thought it should have 2 colors? All are 5/8”.

Thought these two went together well