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hi all ernie here. vitro is where we have them. the largest akro cc we have is a no 2 box. thanks

don't use snipeware Galen... LOL! and yeah, on the proxy. (sorry Don) the picture didn't do it justice for sure. nicer in hand... we kinda thought the same thing about using whatever they had. We have lots of bags with Indians on them leather and suede, and believe some of the older ones go back to the teens.

Just wondering... the chicago fair master bags... do they always have the indian head imprint on the back side like this one? chicago bag

not sure why my post showed as submitted twice. lol sorry about that gang.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT ONE, ERNIE AND DANI

~ A little closer view. lol..

this slag is to DIE for! and it is still seamless! lol (and mine) ~Ernie

still a work in progress, but here's some pics..

here's the box windy was talking about..

Hi gang, I am still looking for the number of that truck,(the one that ran over me).. will be posting pictures soon. thanks to paul, windy and matthew for helping me so much with the pictures! really appreciated!!

here's a few we're bringing

Ya just tell them there's marbles in it. we always get the usual 'funny' comments about marbles... i always tell them if they want to open cases, please do so where they won't fall anywhere! we have never had a problem. :-) I am packing up some really fun stuff this time... for sale. but i never know what people are looking for(except steve and paul.lol) anybody want to post their 'want list'? i need at least a 3 color 1" cork to fill a space that's in a display... see y'all in a day or 2!

nice example Charles!

well shoot, we certainly took a turn at the fork in the road on this thread didn't we? ROFL

when you look at the page that says the akro line is complete? it lists the moss agates first.. I am guessing they meant the mossy corks...since all the ones there with the exception of sparklers, were cork types. other bits of food for thought.. just thinking outloud here..(could be dangerous!) when the popeye boxes were found having swirls instead of corks, some speculated on their originality... until Lloyd found the NOS of them some years back. until that happened, pretty much everyone thought only corks were found in the popeye boxes. mind you, we're going back at least 10 years, but it shows how things can change! because, once again, there were no records kept being really specific! all we can do is look at old advertisements and catalogs. remember, akro had literally TONS of stored marbles. look at all the stuff master got when they bought it all up? not to get off the subject... but I did. lol

yeah, steph is right. they did make both during that time period. sorry about that!.... but what's weird is going thru copies of old documentations and catalogs... time lines are sketchy! and they say the same thing in advertising about carnelians as they do the cornelian. almost word for word! we do know MOST of the swirly types, the ox bloods, silvers, blues, etc were pre cork right? the time line as we understand it, and everything can of course overlap, is the handgathered types, then the slag types, then the moss swirls and then corks and finally patches. and I made the mistake of 'carnelians' vs 'cornelians'. DUH! sorry... :-) oddly enough too, just an observation, many of the early ads and catalogs we have do not have dates! very frustrating! and there's a few boxes in books we know were backfilled and not original. so i think general rules are the only thing that's going to apply unless one has ordering pages direct from the factory, with dates. sure would love to have a few boxes of that stuff, but alas, mostly long gone. akro was famous for quality control, but record keeping? naw.... lol

there have been so many boxes backfilled over the years.. who really knows?! lol but the carnelian oxbloods were in gift box sets, usually. and I agree that the carnelians were not corkscrews, but the pre cork, early moss swirls. Pauls marble is a great example of the correct patterning. as to what was in what boxes. akro many times stuffed whatever boxes with what was available that day too. look at the popeye boxes Lloyd got, filled with oxbloods and moss swirls. case in point. FWIW :-)

ahhh like this one?...thanks! CYAN

cyan slag = turquoise/sky blue?

oh yeah..

K-9 is still looking for a new halloween auction too Lloyd...

cool marble! i actually have a 15/16 on the bay right now. same colors green, but not the tan base. yours needs a special name!

i'll be ording mine too!

looked in the red book, 1989, and the 1991, second printing. no mention of diaper folds in these books. Marbles, the guide to machine made marbles, 1992, page 37, line 5, lists diaper folds, 10-25.00. the second addition, 1995, page 35, line 5 shows diaper folds, except now they show a value of 50 - 175.00! wow! so in books, it wasn't used until '92. at least not in my books. ~Ernie