Steph

What a nice picker upper!

Neat!

It was said that there was a shade of green Moss Agate found at an Alley site which hasn't been seen from any other factory. Does that observation still hold? And do these marbles from an Alley site look like any particular other maker? Eeek! Those are big pix. (p.s., they're marbles Sandy posted)

It would be interesting to hear more about the salters. However, please try to keep personal stuff to a minimum. Information = good. Personal digs = Board of Inquiry/Squabble Zone. Thanks!

*waves at jeeperman* Nice to see ya!

That cat gets around.

It has been said that the white will glow on about half of them. (This was from a Marblealan and Kokoken discussion. )

Hello. Welcome!

Very nice

I don't think common. Here's one which was listed as a Bloody on ebay a couple of months ago. Hey CAC folks, does this one fit the bill? http://www.ebay.com/itm/140973297252

To be fair, the building was only resting there after a mad 4-mile long dash through the city.

The one on the right in my pic? It has confetti inside. One neat and odd thing about that one is that one of the confetti pieces is pink and white striped. And it's pretty much a total match for the pink and white striped piece which is rolled into the middle marble.

These were found at a dumpsite in Shanghai.

lol ... those are great

... or thought to be from China Description from ebay auction: Possibly from the 1930's or 1940's. However, some think later.

Stark difference between a paper which fires its photographers and one which still values them: http://suntimesdarktimes.tumblr.com/post/53967466726/front-pages-june-26-2013 Be sure to click the pic to see the whole Trib page.

Here's what Wiki said about it, including the source of the "flint" name: Elsewhere I read that the name eventually became so general that any clear, colorless glass was called flint glass. However, I also read that flint glass wasn't always transparent and could be any coloring. So the question is what it meant at the time Akro said it. Maybe Helmer's book will help.

Flint glass is described in Encyclopedia Britannica as "heavy and durable". So maybe it really was something special. Seems that in some usages it's what is known as lead crystal. But that's not the only thing which has been called flint glass. So I still

Well, flinties (and moonies) existed at least since April 1928, per Boys' Life. Akro said they used flint glass in some marbles as early as 1926, in the booklet All About Marbles. (here's a copy) Here's the part where I saw they mentioned flint glass -- in the Cardinal Reds: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/1926_Akro_CardinalReds_Cornelians.jpg They just called the Cornelians "hard as flint", at least on that page.

I don't know if flint glass referred to flinties. I think they were talking about the whole line so I guessed it referred to the onyx and cornelian that year. But now that you mention it ..... I'll have to look for when they first started talking about flint glass and when flinties were introduced.

I've been going through my treasure trove of items from George Sourlis -- four years worth so I needed refreshing -- and I found two more N. Shure ads which had a similar layout. One had the Hot Shot picture on the left and the Moss Agate picture on the right, and again only mentioned Akro in the Moss Agates section. Uncertain about the date. The other was from 1936 and had a full page of Akro items. It had the Hot Shot on the top left and the Moss Agate on the top right and the rest of the page was filled with Carnelians, a Popeye box and three gift boxes. And this ad mentioned Akro in the Hot Shots section. Said, "Marbles packed in mesh bags. Any boy getting Akro Agate Mesh Bags glows with pride. Warms with enthusiasm, and becomes a 'hot shot' marble shooter." Three different versions of text on the Hot Shot side but the same photograph. The 1936 version actually offers the 25-count bag for sale.

Just looking at old ads. Here's what Akro said about their marbles in 1928: So was there something special about the glass Akro was using? Something that made them more sturdy than say a Peltier Rainbo a few years later or a Vitro Tiger Eye or a Jabo Classic?

Well, my call for ephemera didn't turn out how I expected, but this has been fun.

Spiffy! Cute ID. I see how someone could make that mistake.