Steph

2 hours ago, Alan said:

Broken image links.

Let's try this:

2 hours ago, Berryb said:

They kinda look like the Swedish stone marble that Chris posted yesterday. These appear to be British made judging from the spelling of colored. Thanks

Bruce

I was thinking that also, but cautious that I was being too quick to want to start seeing Swedish marbles everywhere.   

The British spelling wouldn't necessarily mean made in England.   Could just be packaged for sale in England.  So who knows?

I see the picture.  Congrats, Kerry.   Interesting look to them.  

Are they a dense clay?   Are they metal? 

Salco – Lilliput World Ltd

Fascinating.  Completely new to me.  Thank you!

6 hours ago, akroorka said:

OK--you asked for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ

Peaches--On!!!

I've heard the song before.  But I forgot I had until I followed your link.  

mmmmmm, peaches

Vitro.


How about a Bullseye?

51 minutes ago, Chris Parson said:

I think I found Picassos today at the second hand store. I’ll get back with a comparison. Is it best if I do that in a new thread? @Steph

Sharing here is fine.  Your marble!  Your discussion!  Same topic.  Thanks for asking though.  Often is good to start a fresh thread.  

I say yours is an exceptional one!

Very nice.

I agree.  Vacor.

Colors are right for a Picasso. 

1 hour ago, Ric said:

I agree, a lazy corkscrew on an Ace base, IMO.

Thank you for articulating that.  It's what I was thinking.

The orange glow is a bit of a puzzle, but that sure does look Akro. 

That's an eyeful!  

Thanks for photographing and sharing. 

Here are some presumably legit boxes with graphics which have more of a stamped look to them.      I have that "Brian" posted these. I shared them in one of the threads about that hoaxer Pavcraz   So, I'm thinking Brian would be Brian Graham.  





This is the picture from an auction which prompted the discussion.    I think these are legit.      Is this rubber stamp or not?   I have to guess not, but still a little sloppy looking, eh?






Here was the Pavcraz fake which made people so suspicious of the boxes above.  He was a one-man wrecking crew to faith in Akro boxes.  

I'm not sure why I didn't do this search earlier.  I certainly thought of the seller's name.  But I've done the search now.   Here's an example of a scammer who used stamps and caused quite a furore.  It was actually a family of scammers from both coasts. Fake boxes (including supposed Akro and Christensen packaging) came from the East Coast.  A fake Eagle Bennington and other fake Benningtons came from the West Coast.   And the sellers vouched for each other, without telling of the family connection of course.  They took their show to the different forums to try to build up some backstory for their fake goods.  Like, "Look what I found at a flea market -- what can you tell me about it?"  Then the person from the opposite coast would say he found something similar on his side of the country.  Stuff like that.  Took some digging to bring the whole picture to light.  

https://marbleconnection.com/topic/12999-akro-box-izzit-for-real/

Stamp looks different on yours on this particular box.  I could probably dig up more examples of that guy's work to see if any of his boxes were a closer match.  But stamps just raise red flags for me.  Akro started out as jobbers, not makers, as of course you know.  I'm just observing that from the beginning they were very attentive to professional presentation.  

I am given to understand that Craig Snider is now the person to go to if you want a definitive answer on Akro boxes.   If he has weighed in on some other venue, I would go with whatever he said.  
 

Such a wonderful person.  He was so sweet and helpful to me.  I hadn't heard back from him in email in some time.  I knew things had to be bad.    

9 minutes ago, Ric said:

I appreciate the input folks, please keep it coming. It seems we are all in agreement . . .

It's not a WV Swirl. 😊

LOL ... now that you mention it ... if it doesn't fit the patch makers maybe it's because it's an unswirled swirl.

Jabo did it.  Why not Alley?  

 

2 hours ago, Ric said:

There is some depth to the trans ribbons but no where near that much.

Then I'll say that my first impression was Akro, but if that Pelty green went all the way through I would have completely abandoned that thought.  Now I'm still entertaining the thought but have no strong feelings either way.  Might run it by Dani if I wanted to pursue the Akro possibility more. 

You can see all the way through to the opposite side when you look into the green ribbon in view #2?  

I've seen a couple of different size charts in old ads.   So yeah, #5 could be different sizes ... all large.

But I agree with Ric that No. 5 here would refer to the box style, not size.

My first thought was Vitro ... for what it's worth. 

Akro made quality boxes with quality graphics.

Calling "fake" on this one. 

At Gina's urging, a Thursday thread.  

This one is for your German marbles and related items -- Thüringen being the cradle of the glass marble making industry in Germany in the 1800's.  







 

I'm gonna go for it.    (Thuringen Thursday)

Gina, hope to hear from you soon!  You have us worried.

The rest of my Aces are sadly jumbled up with other Jabos from 2008.  I had all the 2008 marbles in sections in a box that was 12" x 12" x 2".     The 2" was just enough room for all the marbles to jump their boundaries when I tripped over something.   They've remained in that same box for all these years.   I still plan to sort them out ... someday.

On 8/11/2021 at 2:43 PM, Gina Macias said:

Perhaps a more seasoned member should pick, plus I think you know what I’d choose. 

Still curious what you would choose!