Steph

What led you to the Alox hypothesis? I was pretty sure that the Master Marble Co. was established quite awhile before Alox got their marble machines. I have the late 30's as when Alox started making marbles.

Nice work. Macabre, but nice.

Great! Thanks for clearing that up!

Bittersweet. Thanks for sharing.

For some reason I was under the impression that the company name had been changed to J & J. Is that correct? Or was the just the name of the run? Thanks again.

When Joker posted his mibs I realized I don't know what people mean when they say JABO now. Is that the original JABO under a different name? Or a different JABO at another site? Or is JABO still JABO at the same site. Hope this doesn't start anything negative and if it does I'll move it promptly. Just curious about the names and places and unfolding history. Thanks.

Peltier would be my guess also. Name? Oh I hope someone else will help with that.

Yikes! ???

Prayers and warmest wishes ...

Wild.

interesting

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: