Steph

I feel inspired!

Need bigger pictures. Hmmmm ... not getting a good feel for the purple. Is there only one white stripe? It's not where I expect a stripe on a Pelt Rainbo to be.

Good angles. I think Master on those two. The Akro is a Moss Agate. Did you check it with a blacklight?

I have so many new run examples to post. Just got three more sample sets in the mail. Someone make me take pictures!

Yes on the green. No peerless patches. (They are opaque.) I'm not getting a distinct picture on the cutlines of the other two. The blue and white one could be a Master just based on color and general consistency of the white. (Close-ups of seams could possibly change my mind, but it's a safe first guess.) Leaning Vitro on the clear and white one .... but not so comfortably. Definitely close-ups of the ends could change the picture.

Oooooh. Nice capture.

Yeah, they did good that day.

Exciting!

Found The article says M. F. Christensen, but Martin had died in 1915, so this was his son Charles. Other papers that ran some version of the story had other headlines, such as "Marble Man's Wife Playing 'For Keeps'". So, anyway, you see what I mean by kinda sad, kinda cute.

I'll find it! A quest!

yeah ....

I don't recognize it as a Victory. Maybe I'm just not seeing the correct view of it. I was wondering if it might be a modern marble.

*melt* What a beauty. May you enjoy many delightful years together.

Ha! Found one! Stolen from Roger A.

what a great pattern keeperthread

Does look like a seam. A long one. I'm leaning toward late Vitro. About 1990. From when they were in Anacortes.

The impurities are interesting. It's handgathered. Has the "nine and tail". That means odds are MFC or Akro. The 9 isn't very tight. That could point toward Akro. Will now step back and hope one of the people who collect that era can give insight.

And then there was the Charles Christensen scandal. @bumblebee, do you still have a copy of that kinda sad, kinda cute news story?

Just saw the name "Akro Prizename" and had a flash of amused curiosity about that moment when the company managers decided to officially name them that. Of course there was originally a contest where kids were supposed to come up with the name for the new corkscrew marbles. So the boxes _said_ "prize name" on them because they were delivering the contest rules. And then there was a winner of the contest, and the winning name was "Fire Opal". But somewhere along the way back in 1930, the Akro guys decided to make the writing on the box be the official name of the marble, and the contest winning name wasn't used ... at least not for corkscrews. Sooo ... I'm amused by whoever decided to name their marbles after their box.

I'm also finding it difficult. Can be hard to show details on marbles with a lot of transparency. Sometimes using the flash instead of natural light can help show off the structure of a transparent marble. Also putting the marble in a bowl of water has been used to help show off what's happening inside it. Am I seeing a seam in the third photo? Slightly larger pix would be good. (Can crop more off the side to keep the kilobytes small.) My first guesses are a more modern marble. Possibly a Jabo or a late Vitro.

Been so long since I found marbles "in the wild". That's the dream!

Hi. Welcome. Not a pontil mark. It's machine made, -- no punties were used. I'm trying to remember if I learned what caused that type of mark. Something happened to it while the glass was still hot, but not quite hot enough for it to completely round that out on the rollers. I think that's a West Virginia Swirl. I'll estimate date of production at 1930's to 1950's. (Though I can't swear it's not a later, if Champion made it.)

Score I need to find us a happy dance emoticon.

I'll PM you the link to his facebook page ... I told him you might be contacting him. If you're not on facebook, maybe I can get his email.