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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!!

My first thought is Champion.

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.

Yes, an Alley from St. Mary's.

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

A few more.

I think there is a good chance this is a Vitro Tomato - one of the coolest game marbles out there, IMO.

Has anyone considered Kokomo?……The marble does have somewhat of a “single band” kokomo style trait and is also overloaded with bubbles…..The only Pelt Rainbos Ive seen with thick bubbles like that are Sunsets…(EDIT-and a few PPP’s)……but? Here is a sample of a bubble filed single band Rainbo that I had years ago that at the time stirred up an ID controversy between it being a Pelt Rainbo or a Kokomo… I think it was 3/4” (have to go check my data base) and heres a hefty 15/16” Bubble filled “Twisted Sunset” Rainbo

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

Keep it coming!!!

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? 😄

Sunlight

X2, nice mib

El Aguila is still what I see. This kind of business is part of the reason why. That sort of thing is not Akro, IMO

Does it taste like candy? Might be a gobstopper or sucker or something.

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…

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. 🙂

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.

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/

She packs a punch. Just arrived.

Just a few Sistersville Alleys . . .

I was and am so lucky I got this in a group auction. Was hoping I had scored my first Superman. Posted it it was confirmed. Boo Yah. Then someone replied it’s not mint and isn’t worth much. So what. It has a cool pattern and it’s mine🔥 RAR

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”.

Size is 3/4"