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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.

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.

Well, I cut my arm really bad today at work and had to go get stitched up, all will be well. Gives me more time to share some marbles I like..lol. Here are some of my favorite corkscrew for your viewing pleasure!! The black and white corkscrew has the richest, deepest black, thought it was neat. Hope you enjoy! Thanks for looking.

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!!

The brown is just some stray glass from the pot. These days - one is best off not believing seller's descriptions. Adding/stacking word descriptors seems to be taking-in buyers now more than ever.

I think one of the most plausible reasons that so many patches were found at Sistersville is because the marble jobber Rosenthal was there and they packaged all kinds of different marbles in bags and boxes from that location.

Or your favorite lemon colored marble/marbles. This one is a shooter.

Bad day on the Zam. Question: Does it pop and glow under UV 🔥 RAR

I’m stumped. The seam and color combo has me all hung up🔥 RAR

It's a happy new Thuringen Thursday and I am re-posting a marble from 54 pages ago. 🙂 I gave it to a friend at the Ft. Wayne show last year - he likes the oddities even more than I do and it was totally worth it just to get a peek in his keeper box - jumpin' jimminy, man! That's all I've got to say. 🙂

Here’s a favorite…. Nice sized 23/32” Akro UV Swirl EDIT: Even though its only a glower, I felt compelled to add this one because they’re usually found banged up pretty bad…

Thank you so much for your compliments! It really feels great to hear someone so appreciative of my efforts in photographing these marbles. I do invest a lot of time and energy into taking them.

I completely agree, Chuck. Where were we 10 years ago? 😄

Yes - a West Virginia Swirl.

Sunlight

X2,Agree, nice one, seams are a perfect example of Master construction

X2

It's an Akro patch. The only Robin's Eggs I know of are speckled clay or Heatons. But I'm an old guy, who knows what the kids are calling things these days.

vacor love…

Akro

Cool, Joe. I like to have good examples of newer marbles too but I always worry about bulk collections like this, and boxes/tins in general, since it's so easy for the marbles to get mixed up. Speaking from experience, Mom sees marbles laying around on the floor and they all get thrown into the "marble box", regardless of where they came from. Having said that, I have no reason to believe the marbles you're showing aren't original to the tin. It would be nice to find one with the marbles still inside the poly-mesh bag the way they were originally packaged though, just to be sure. Also, I reccommend that you don't visit the website shown on the back of the tin unless you are prepared to intercept an automatic download purported to be from Microsoft. 🙂

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/

She packs a punch. Just arrived.

My glass toy box (12 × 15 cm) has 10 cat's eyes. 9 are Stripeys. The 7 marbles which I could count 4 vanes. 15-17.6 mm. One got a fat vane which almost fills half of the marble. Mamekeri flat marbles. The yellow ones are about 26mm across, 8 mm thick. Mamekeri and ohajiki with numbers. Mamekeri are bigger than ohajiki. 30-18mm. Ohajiki with paper rock scissor designs and a flower. The green measures 21 mm. Other glass toys that I don't regard as original to the box. They are believed to be even earlier in the production time.

It’s not Amber and it doesn’t glow. It’s yellow. Any ideas🔥 RAR

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

I'm not Chad, but I'm pretty sure he would agree - it's probably newer than a lot of Imperials. The old style MKs are a patch and ribbon construction - the poles of the marble are different colors. The new style of MKs have two patches of the same color.

List these posts like you are talking to a rookie collector. The knowledge that you have is hard to under-explain but this is the world that we live in. I know, “I have said this all before” about whatever marble related item it may be, but we must be in repeat mode to keep this thing going and helping the newer collectors in the new hobby that they have gained. I repeat myself often and there are many new collectors that show up often. One or two may be true collectors that are looking for an ID—who cares really? I just love looking at marbles and items that correspond and appreciate any post here at “TheMarbleConnection”. I appreciate giving all that I can to anyone that posts here. I think that we are all doing very well--keep it up! Marble—On!!

Well, this looks like an entirely different marble. It is really important to show any seams and/or ribbon ends when you post photos for ID. This looks like a German striped Striped Transparent to me. I do not believe it is the marble you posted originally.

Hi again? Is this a Marble King Shooter? If so, what type might it be? I can't find this exact colour way Thank you

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

Here is an odd one--- Marble--On!!