Steph

Akro sold both patches and swirly/corky marbles under the Moss Agate name. What Akro called Aces is different from what most collectors call Aces. And this does look like what people would call an Ace.

Looks like one which I would call a Moss Agate. But I'm going to guess that your fellow Akro collectors will agree upon calling it an Ace. If it has fire inside then maybe it's a true Akro company Ace, but that's a strange color for a true Ace. Odd. But nice odd.

What exact shades are we looking at? I'm seeing slight purple coming through the base ... with aqua ribbons?

I completely forgot my sparklers. Doh. So how much might these squishy ones be worth?

Nice story. Thanks! I'll be listing his marbles later this week.

Cilantro is heavenly for me. And I used to skip school to go buy apples. Crunching into an apple is one of my favoritest things to do -- I don't do it often enough. .... so I guess I must not have that particular gene.

I'd say mostly/only a thing with hand gathered. Not sure there's been enough attention paid to it on corks for the feature to get a name. But maybe someone who's not blanking on it can come up with a name off the tip of their tongue.

Fun!

busy little stripes

Mibsters will be shooting for all the marbles at national championship

*raspberry* You don't think there was meant to be a distinction? I was excited to see the description. I was gonna come post this if no one else bumped the thread.

More Sunsets

Someone reminded me about this. Red Striped Carnelian box, courtesy of Jeff Lewis:

Neato. Interesting stuff, Maynard. How do you feel about benzenes?

We've seen the occasional early Sunset box before. But have we known what the name meant? If we didn't, now we might. National Line Rainbos vs. Sunsets -- two colors vs. three colors? I've seen three-color marbles in NLR boxes, but maybe once upon a time this was the intended distinction?

hehe

That's another good question. Here are some variations on the real-word definition of cullet. Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting, especially with new material. Waste glass for melting down to be reused. Broken or waste glass suitable for remelting. Perhaps variant of collet (literally: little neck, referring to the glass neck of newly blown bottles, etc). http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cullet So when you see glass companies with piles of glass to be recycled into marbles, that's definitely cullet. But marble collectors sometimes have slightly different definitions, so we call the big chunks of glass found at marble factory sites "cullet" even if the chunks might never have been intended to be reused. And I have a lot of jars of out-of-round and broken Jabos which I have labelled as cullet. And now that you ask I'm not sure if I was correct to do so, but that's how I thought of them at the time.

Yah, sure looks yellow.

headscratcher

kewl beans. Tornado also white?

Thanks everyone for the pix! I still haven't figured out where I put the oxblood I was planning to compare with these. But it'll roll out from its hidey hole sometime. Ah, I think I might know where to look next.

I was surprised yesterday when you mentioned "first Oxblood". Wondered what you could possibly mean. I had a whole bunch of those once ... before I knew what I had ... and sold 'em! It was a bunch of oxbloods and the other non-oxbloods which would have come in the box with them. So basically I had someone's box of tri-color agates, but without the box, and sold 'em.

They look old to me. I don't know how to identify their cores.

I don't understand the meaning of "thin open seam either". I'll guess that he means the channel of clear glass between the two cores.