Steph

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.

handmade

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

interesting ....

Good guess. No.

Not Pelt Liberty. No stretching. Round marble photographed against my concrete sidewalk. Cropped to leave only small border while still showing entire marble. Then plain blur.

Okay, gave it a double whammy. The little bit of blur I could get naturally, plus an extra kick from an image editor. Just under 1"

Effort #1 is a bust ... I thought I had blur figured out. Of course I could post it and we could have an easy round .....

Okie dokie!

In what regard?

How did I win this? My guess was "my orange cat sticking out his tongue". If you're just telling me I should go because I haven't done it in awhile, I'll give it a shot, but I wasn't close!

I think Peltier yes. But I'm not seeing Bloody Mary. I do see some people identifying ordinary red and white rainbos as Bloody Marys online, so that's not helping at all. Yours is more interesting than some of the others I'm seeing being called that. But to me, it's not stripey and tracery enough to be a Bloody Mary. Here's one:

The thread screeches to a halt as we ponder Tommy's unusual marble.

I'm not making out clear 9s, tails and cutlines. Seeing a bit of MFC and a bit of CAC (one longish seam-looking place) ... which is why I'm leaning Akro.

My best guess for which name Akro sold it under is Prizename. It _looks_ like it was meant to be a two-color marble -- blue and yellow. Yet I am counting four colors. It's just my hunch that Akro didn't mean for either the black or the white to be showing! If they did mean for it to be a blue, white and yellow marble, for example, then I still wouldn't call it a Special. I don't use the name "Special" to describe Akros. The marbles that most people call Specials were sold by Akro as Tricolor Agates. (*waits for Chad to bonk me on the head with his rubber mallet*) So maybe I would say "four color Akro cork" and not try to pin an Akro name on it.

I _still_ don't know what it is! (other than pretty)

I'd backlight it and see if there's an orange glow in the base.

Akro's name for it was Moss Agate. Collector's name is Ace.

You're welcome!

lol ... the" Master" "Wavy Grain" ...

Look at all the wavy grain.

Here for example, I'm seeing this as glow on the bottom. I know from experience how hard it is to match what you see in the marble to what you get in the photograph. So this matches up with as much glow as I expect to see in a photo even if it's really nice in hand.

The opal can be difficult to photograph. I thought I was seeing enough hints of it in the pictures showing to go along with a conspicuous grain to make Realer the leading candidate. But over on facebook I actually hedged my call by saying I was "hopeful" about it.

Pelt Acme Realer from me.

Ah, that's you on Facebook. I've made the connection before, but forgot it today. You already know my answer.