Steph

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.

oh wait, you said 5/8in. nevermind.

my orange cat sticking out his tongue

Tricky. My first thought was Akro. I could see Vitro though. On the fence.

If I keep guessing Akro Leopard, I have to get it right sometime. Right? So that's my guess!

Sherry has some sweet old marbles. If this came in the same group as some of her gorgeous old marbles, I see no reason to doubt that it's legit CAC. And if I had seen this thread when it was originally posted, before I paged through all the replies, I would have had the same thought.

You might have two colors of glass in there. Some of my clearies had that glow in parts and turned out to have both red glass and yellow.

Fun. More choices with the long seam than with a V.

yeppers

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Ha! I'm so bad at the names of the less common Ades that I forgot one other possibility. It might turn out to be an Orange Ade. Orange, Cherry, Tomato ... I can NOT keep those straight.

Yeah, sorry about the hit. Still a keeper!

I think that's a hit, not a bubble. The new marble is _some_ kind of Ade, I'm pretty sure, but not Lemon. Tomato Ade or Cherry Ade? I have not perfected those names. (It's also in the Moss Agate family, so you're in the ballpark.) The Lemonade is yellow where your marble is red/orange. A Lemonade photo from ebay: