Steph

Hiya. Long time. The top one might be an Alley Agate from the 1930's or 1940's. The bottom could end up being an Akro Agate from the 1930's. Need clearer pictures. Possibly if you pull back a little way from the marble the focus would be better? Also, four marbles per picture wouldn't be a bad thing. That could also _possibly_ help with focus issues.

Thanks, Ron.

Hi. That's an Akro corkscrew. From the 1930's. I'm not sure if it has a special nickname. Is it a normal 5/8" diameter marble? Or closer to an inch? If normal size and mint, one might be able to get a couple of dollars for it. (Just my rough guess.) Yours does not appear mint, so I think value is probably a dollar or less.

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Hi. I'm back after being unable to log on for a couple of days. I don't know the answer, but I can bump the thread. Also I moved it. I move technical name questions to the main forum in the hopes that more will see. : )

Interesting for sure. But I still am puzzled. I look forward to hearing other thoughts.

With all the colors those have, it's possible it's from a contract run from Jabo or DAS or a related enterprise. I'll tag a couple who might have a clearer idea. @Nantucketdink @wvrons

both gorgeous. the sparkling water idea is genius

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Okay, at that size, then I'm definitely going Akro Moss Agate with the green ones. But the red one makes my brain a little tired.

No. At least the first three are not. Pretty sure not on the last one either. The first two are moss agates. I think the third is also. I guess Akro on all three though that patches have different shapes. Master also made moss agates. And Peltier made the Acme Realer which can look similar except there is orange fire in the base glass of the Realer. What size on those?

p.s. gotta say again how neat those two are. In a world where Conquerors are commons, those two big 'uns are still keepers.

I don't often refer to the Phantom Conqueror. I put all the Conquerors together, whether the white is on the surface or inside. So Victories with just the color patch. And Conquerors with the color patch and white.

Oooh. Nice. Vitro Conquerors. 1940's. You don't see big ones every day.

It was a turquoise day. I went to a thrift store -- asked if they had marbles. Of course no. But it turns out there were some on the odds and ends table in the sorting room. When loose marbles come in they go into a bag on that odds and ends table and then later if a game box is missing marbles they might get some from this bag. Since they were mostly modern, I wasn't very interested, but as I gave the nice lady a casual lesson about some of the ones she pulled out that she liked, I couldn't help mentioning how much I like turquoise ... and she bagged up all the turquoises for me for a dollar. I tried to leave some because I didn't want to hog them but she fished out them all. I really do love turquoise.

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When someone posts their almost finished tomato and mayo sandwich in the Old Fashioned Cooking group on Facebook and you think the little picture in the notifications looks like a Peltier .....

Could be. Could be a missed up one from another maker. But being so wonky maybe that ups the odds of dug Akro.

pic #2 is where I started thinking ingot rather than cold roll. Looks a little like a red Peltier ribbon coming up to the seam on the right, but on the left that red ribbon doesn't look like it meant to run up to that seam, if indeed it is a seam I am seeing. That it's an oversized marble is also encouraging for it being a double ingot. Some people see cold rolls on small marbles and think maybe a double ingot, not thinking about how the double ingot has to be big enough to hold the glass of two marbles.

Well, the dictionary is trying to tell me that an ingot is a mass of metal. But I guess it can be a mass of glass also. A double ingot is the glass for two marbles melded into one marble. If you have a weird seam which can't be explained as a cold roll, it might be where two marbles fused together.

cool I haven't seen many live performances. Saw the Monkees several times in the 90's. But that was my husband's trip. I was along for the ride.

#2 looks like a Vitro Opal .... pretty #3 ... best guess I can make for that structure is Peltier #4 ??? Now ... #1 ... I'm wondering if this is a double ingot. Maybe a dug Akro?

I've been trying to sing this for the past hour so I finally looked it up to get more of the words right.