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omg, that poor thing!!! makes my eyes water just looking at it!

your pictures don't show... ??? can you repost please?

fwiw. the blue one has the same color base as the red one. not the base of a tracer.

another huge loss! you will be missed Art! RIP.

Ditto!

it will be..........:-) also some stunning hand mades! I haven't had a chance to do more pictures yet. but i can say this weeks auctions will be super!

patched, striped guinea.. or maybe the blue ray line? lol @ john. if it made ya go 'wow' then ya know how I felt with it in hand.:-)

thanks!...aint it tho?! how about this baby?

what mark said.... lol

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here's a few... put a regular sized slag in to show size..

but then there's ones like this......lol

Loads of fun! It's a drive thru Seattle to a northern ferry, and an island hop to Ro's. We spent a wonderful day with Ro and his beautiful lady Renee. (for those that don't know, Renee is a very talented artist in several mediums!) Located out in the country.. lots of wildlife and things to see. You can actually sit at their table, look outside and watch trout run up a stream below you. It's an awesome place to be in oh so many ways! Thanks Guys, We had a Ball!! Oh, yeah, we came home with glass 'goodies' too... will post later. :-)

hI marie, if it's 1/2" it's either dug, a mistake, experimental or polished. Akro did not make a production peewee. Don't know if it would be worth more tho. :-)

but they can have more white in them than Edna's. those are awesome Edna! HTF with that much clear and fire! jealous! lucky girl!

does the center alley have aventurine?

It doesn't have to have a lot to be an Ace. if it has any fire at all. it is an ace. the base glass wasn't suppose to be all opalescent, although some turned out that way. it was meant to have some. i know Steph has the original catalog description we posted awhile back somewhere... if not I can repost. :-).

i agree they look tumbled. that said, We have some that were sent to us from Hilo, ones that were found years after the big tsunami there swept them out to sea(with many children unfortunately). they are in a little box here kept together, with a note from the person that sent them.

thanks Nan. Dink. I am lucky, I think hubby loves the marbles more than I do! and that's a dangerous combo there I tell ya.

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i believe that's a dug akro. I have some like it. came out of the dig about 5 or 6 years back. FWIW they are cool, but not that kinda cool. IMHO lol

dunno some have it and some don't....but it aint 'surfin'! lol

hi, fire opal looks fiery orange in color in hand.... i would say the one on left is just a moonie. the one on right... is it accidental swirling or definite hand gathered characteristics? hard to tell in picture. I would say it is Akro not Cac. oddly enough the cac's have (usually) a very slight blue cast to them. does this one? I think this is where the CAC collectors need to jump in. either way, as said, hard to tell, especially not having in hand. I will try to post a pic. of a fire opal later. :-) when you shine a light thru them onto white paper, what color is the dot? orange or a cherry red? I think where there could be more confusion is the 'eye' thing. we have chinese checker marbles that all have' eyes', and they are not opals or moonies. it was the nature of the machine to make the eyes. just because an akro has that dang 'eye' doesn't make it a flintie or a moonie or an opal. lol

well heck, we'll get the discussion moving.. there is a big difference between a flintie and flint moonie. 1. flint moonie was a company name. we sold a # 0 'flint moonie' box set to Roger about 15 years back. Only box he has of one in that size. 2. flinties were the red colored ones. Commonly seen with the eyes(although we have a few with '9's) the flint moonies, are not colored. 3. the yellow, green and blue ones were called opals, by akro, again a company name, sold as such. 4. there's also a 'fire opal' named by Roger. thats kind of an orange-y color. and it truly looks like it's on fire! (there's a picture of a box set of #3 moonies, that will be in our newsletter this month). 5. looking at all our flinties and opals,and moonies, only a very few are hand gathered. however there may be more out there, as they were made around the time of the slags and brick types. as for the difference between the cac and akros? in hand you can tell the difference. glass is a little diffrent as is the patterning. although hard to see! Roger shows the box sets in his books.:-) the main diffrence between a flint moonie and just a moonie? as you said, when a light is cast through the moonie it shows an orange dot. when you do the same thing to a flint moonie it shows a red dot!

thanks Dink! one of our favs!