Steph

Hello. Welcome. If you'd like to take a big group shot we might be able to give you an idea about the rough age of the marbles. Glad you're aware of the importance of condition. Don't rummage through them or pour them out. Handle them with some gentleness until you know what you have. Joemarbles.com is a good site if you get to the point of trying to ID some marbles by maker. Pinholes and creases and the like are often "cold-rolls" and "as-mades" and damage, not pontils. (Cold-rolls are where marbles weren't quite hot enough to be completely smoothed over when they went down the rollers.) But if you give us a quick preview we might be able to give you an idea of whether you're looking at handmade or machine-made marbles and roughly which decade they're from.

It was a little confusing to see you say, "there appears to be no pontil," since obviously the marble has a pointil. I take it you mean that you're not seeing the roughness you might expect on one of the ends. I don't have much technical knowledge about handmades so I'm just moving this to the main chat forum and hope someone else will help out with observations. In the meantime, it might be helpful if you added an photo of the whole marble. Thanks!

Big fans in this house. I wish I'd followed through in the 90's on my dream of becoming a mail carrier.

Still scratching my head over the glow in the dark. Maybe that's from the glue ....

Aakro Agate (yes, two A's at the start in the name on the trademark registration page, but not on the box) Trademark Serial Number: 85834165 Mark: AAKRO AGATES SHOOT STRAIGHT AS A KRO FLIES http://www.trademark247.com/aakro+agates+shoot+straight+as+a+kro+flies-85834165-1.html http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85834165&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=documentSearch http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85834165&docId=SPE20130131072359#docIndex=13&page=1

I like Mountain Dew.

My guess for the one Greg posted is a modern repro box from the people who re-registered the Akro trademark -- remember those guys? And then maybe it was messed up a little so it looked older. .... anyone save the photos of the known repro from when we were talking about the repro company registering the trademark? I know I did somewhere, but can't think of how to search for it. Edit: I found the photo I was looking for. The sample pictured with the trademark registration is not identical to the box Greg posted. But it's a good reminder of what is out there. Going to post it in another thread. And the box Greg posted is still a mess! aiyiyi

Google some fried marbles and see how the pix compare. Here's an Etsy listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/90725695/fried-marbles-rose

You sure it's glass? The glow in the dark part is still a puzzle.

Luscious alliterations. Pretty pictures.

How To Fry Marbles

Glow in the dark? Without blacklight? Weeeeeeeerd! Okaaaaaay. Well, except for the glow in the dark part, it looks like a "fried marble". That was a fad in the 60's. People made jewelry with and other crafts with them. Since it's glow in the dark, I have to ask if it is actually glass.

Hey you guys! I was trying to do a legit box thread!

Ugh! *sticks tongue out at Hansel* It's that seller. Is that box legit?

That's a lotta marbles! ! ! ! ! !

Thanks, guys! Amazing to still have "new" boxes surfacing.

Vitro Superiors (from WVMCC newsletter)

Bowling ball and 714 marbles

Let's start again, without the distraction of that box on eBay

Good observation.

Subliminal messages? Bob is sweet and funny and nice. Why would you think that? Bob is sweet and funny and nice. I don't understand. Bob is sweet and funny and nice. Don't worry about that. Really don't worry. Bob is sweet and funny and nice. You're not missing anything.

It's a scary good copy, and the forger's next copy is going to be even better now that they see some of the things they need to fix. Someone is going to get burned. But I'm still glad I got to learn about the real deal. And hopefully the forger will still make some other mistakes so we can catch them again.

Look at the bar on the Ebay box. And that is not the only difference in the print. I don't like giving people lessons on how to improve the details of their reproductions. But the Ebay box does not match the Hardy box. And that is in addition to the marbles being wrong and the box structure sending up warning flags. Ebay: Hardy:

Well, since we're only talking about this one box here, I'll change the title of the thread. We can start a different thread for other boxes.