Steph

And finally for now here's one more pic of Aces, from a Salesman Sample box. Click here for supersize: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/Akro/3Akrosamplerboxes008.jpg (Might need to double click for full size.) (Edit: the supersize doesn't work easily anymore because of Photobucket changes, but you can zoom at Photobucket.)

The description of the translucence could make it easy to think it applied to a wide range of Akro marbles if you didn't have pictures from Akro of what the marble actually looked like. The mention of opalescent glass is kind of confusing and another Akro Ace ad leaves it out entirely. Here are some photos Dani took to show the opalescence. This one doesn't have much of the white glass in it. This seems to be one extreme of the production. This one is what I think Akro was shooting for. And on the other extreme are ones which I believe were made as Aces but which have such a dense base that you can't see enough translucence to see any color in it at all. It would be hard to tell those apart from Prize Names. My impression at this time is that they didn't last nearly as long in the Akro line as Moss Agates did. My hunch is that Aces were Akro's answer to Peltier's Acme Realer. Well, to me they sort of resemble Realers. To me the base seems to have a sort of grain. And it doesn't have the smooth look that Moss Agates do.

Do the 1st and 3rd give you a remelt feeling? A coupla years back there was a guy who was selling akro cullet marbles - by which I think I mean the kind where the cullet was ground into a sphere. And if I recall correctly this guy I'm thinking of was acting like he didn't know it wasn't a normal straight from the ground marble. I'm wondering if this is that guy. Are there any other well known traffickers in dug Akro. Cliffy of course and ... ?

beyond beautiful

Jason is a different member. I don't remember whether he has used his first name here though so I better not say.

Looking at George Sourlis' 1911-1930 Akro poster I see that they had a 5-sleeve in 1922. Looks like 5-sleeves at least until 1926. Elsewhere I see an ad for a 6-sleeve box which might be from around 1934 since it mentions the "new" Akro Carnelian. I should be able to find at least one earlier 1930's ad which I suspect will have a 6-sleeve in it. But I'm gonna go ahead and hit enter on this now. Edit: yes, the ad which I think is from around 1931 has the 6-sleeve. So looks like the switch from 5 to 6 happened in the late 20's or very early 30's.

In case that was too subtle ....

And many more.

Baumann mentions that color in his gooseberry section, calling it rare.

cool

The more I look at it, the more I think someone got una canica interesante for their $101. For future reference:

What's your opinion, Mark?

Still keep coming back to the Vacor thought. Remember these Charles posted? That structure with clownfish colors and ...

My jaded thoughts with those colors and not otherwise recognizing it was that it might be a relative of one of these: But the one at your link has a more complex structure and glancing through the rest of the guy's marbles I don't necessarily see anything to support the Vacor theory.

Well, there's boulder for the really big ones. Offhand I can't think of anything else.

what they said!

Oh, I didn't read that. I just tried a couple of links. I'm a pushover for a section on packaging.

It looks pretty cool so far.

Bill, from what I understand, some are thinking about Alan's parents. With the idea that more money could be generated for them with public auctions than through private deals. Don't know if that's everyone's motivation, but some have that in mind. Of course I appreciate your advice to give it a break. However those looking after Alan's estate deal with the challenge, I'm sure they're doing what they think best.

Did someone give the guy a hard time? Looks like he pulled the pix.

What are your favorites? Corks or parrots?

It is a covetable item!