Steph

Will be interesting to see what shape they have when they come out of the rock tumbler.

Thank you, Jane!!!!!! Priceless part of this strange saga.

His Youtube channel (1) Enbiggen - YouTube

Found!

Saw a video compilation on Facebook of pieces like this from David Scott. Trying to find the YMCA segment of it on YouTube. In the meantime, here's a start.

It's Earth.

Alley

More views of the center one?

Jabo Classic

As Chad's MSCA snippet indicated it's _one_ of the names Akro used. (Laughs quietly at the MSCA's ironically erroneous "Aces with fluorescent base glass" reference.) A page from an Akro circular. This is from a circular which featured "The New Akro Carnelian". But it recycled this old "The Akro Line Is Complete" section which showed up in earlier ads. (So it is also amusing and ironic.)

Whoa! I was certain I had posted this late last night. But here the editor says I only had a draft. Sorry!

Right. The clear base with colored ribbons were Spirals to Akro. Calling it snake lets you include the yellow ones too, so that's cool ... whatever Akro called them. Funny aside, in the 1980's some prominent people were calling all corks spirals. So I'm still not sure when the name "corkscrew" came into marble collectors' lexicon.

A tub full of slags. mmmmm

I do NOT know what name Akro had for this marble. Is the ribbon white -- did all the yellow appearance come being immersed in the baseglass? Or is the ribbon yellow? If white, then okay, easy vote for "sweet sweet onyx". But if it's yellow, then I don't know which if any of their library of marble style names Akro was formally presenting this under. At that point, I'm saying "Collectors, let your imaginations roll." Edit: or maybe I wait and hope that someone does know what box it came in .... Maybe Art's box pic suggests that Akro WAS trying to slide a champagne-based marble into their white-based Ace inventory as they sent the salesmen around to show off their wares. Would be interesting if we had more boxes to show that happening. But if it does turn out that the ribbon is white, then back to easy onyx.

Related note: there seems to be a resurgence of people calling marbles Ringers. Most of those marbles also belong in a "exquisite pattern" Moss Agate box. But people in some Facebook groups at least are getting pretty snarly about insisting that the marbles are Ringers so I'm super leery of _those_ discussions. "Fine, you have a Ringer. I'll back slowly toward the exit."

We've had several threads on it here. But there are so few recognizable true Akro Aces ... and collectors love the Ace name so well for their fancy mossy marbles. Thus I have come to terms with the naming custom and mostly sit on the side and let others run with the collector names. Every now and then it seems someone might be asking for some more technical information -- and Rick seemed like he was asking for some hardcore Akro id-ing. So I mentioned it here.

Most of the Multicolor Rainbos are from the NLR era. Some start to look much more rainbo-y with thinner glass which seems to just skim the surface. Maybe those are tweeners. The one in the OP looks NLR era.

Weird ... I'm seeing "Transparent Swirl".

Sticking with Pelt. Happy Monday morning!

No, not an Ace. Ace is a white-based marble. Promise. That's what allows it to get confused with the white-based Moss Agates. Whoever put the non-white marbles in Art's box made my explainer job harder, lol.

Back then Moss Agate was the top of Akro's line. It came in swirly, corky and patch versions. In early ads the Moss Agate was described as having "exquisite patterns". That can be confusing when you look over at a patch box -- um, where's the exquisite pattern? But it makes sense when you realize the ad writer probably had a cork or swirl box for inspiration. Collectors today aren't as impressed by the Moss Agate name as Akro expected consumers to be. Thus, for many collectors today "Moss Agate" is a mildly boring name which is only used for patches. And the "exquisite pattern" version of the Moss Agate gets names such as Lemonade, Blue Eggyolk and Ace.

The Akro Ace is a real company name. Yes. But what Akro called Ace is a white-based marble which is supposed to have an orange glow when backlit. It's like Pelt's Acme Realer. I don't think it lasted very long. And now the marbles are usually sorted as Prize Names because people don't think to check for orange glow inside or because the white is so dense that it didn't glow like it was suppose to. And then decades later, collectors took Akro's Ace name and put it on a different type of marble. One of the little glitches of the mibology. Many collectors do recognize the actual Akro Ace. But using the Ace name for marbles like Fire's is still very popular, so I don't fight it ... much. However, when asked, I will point out that Akro sold marbles like Fire's first one in Moss Agate boxes. This is an Akro Moss Agate box. It doesn't happen to have the blue and white version, but you see the family resemblance with Fire's marble.

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no cateye am lying down for a nap now so be back in a bit