Steph

Hello. Welcome. Could be a "slag" from the first third of the 1900's. Or it could be a "swirl" from the middle third of the 1900's.

Oooh. Good question! I think it's got a good shot at Akro.

Adeline's cats are mostly Vitro. If that's four vanes on her turquoise cat, I think that would be Japanese.

Hmmm Vitro is all I can think of for them.

Remember to check your oversized "game marbles" for signs of being handgathered. Won't be many of the yellow ones out there, I bet. But you could get lucky.

The Akro Agate Company (marbleconnection.com)

MFC. Not CAC. Akro started out as a business which purchased MFC in bulk and packaged them attractively for sale. A nice above-board marble-selling business which lasted for about three years. Then Horace Hill stole MFC's machine designs and glass formulas and took them to Akro which then set itself up in competition with MFC. In other words, Akro had a very unsavory start in the marble-making part of the business. I think that yellow is just a solid-colored marble, not slag, not electric. Yeah, most would call it a game marble now, but remember this would predate Chinese Checkers. These would have been considered nice marbles at the time. The greens would have been called "Oriental Jade". I don't know what colorful name the yellow ones would have had.

I know of some place names which are a test of whether you're familiar with the area. Some are not pronounced like the more famous places with that name. Some are unusual names which new people won't sound out the way longtime residents say it. For example, Miami, OK, Eucha, OK, Tahlequah, OK, Albany, GA, Cairo, WV, Manitowoc, WI.

No doubt about Akro on the second one! The company name was Moss Agate. Edit: actually I do see how Roberto could have gotten Alley on the second. But my first thought was Akro, and then of course with Ron weighing in with Akro, that helps me with the "no doubt" part.

*checks bank account*

Agreed.

But fun idea! Nice illusion

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Very imaginative. Good luck in your enterprise.

These came to me from Paula Cole as Marble Kings. Maybe yours is a variation on the yellow and red one here.

I too am unable to come up with a Vitro style name for it because it's a little off somehow. For example, the Vitros I can think of that it looks closest to are All-Reds and Tiger Eyes, but I wouldn't call it either one of those.

Yes, it was a good one, you brave man!

I think they're actually Alox patches. The founder's granddaughter confidently describes how Mr. Frier tinkered around until he managed to get patches from his machines. She thought they were the big one-inchers. I think they are the ones in the tit-tat-toe games.

Lucky marble collector who has that bag!

Weird to see so many of one color combination together. I guess that was somebody's favorite combo. Possibly Akro Tri-Color Agates. I'm not sure.

^^ well, MOST are slags in that compartment in the center. The blue one near the bottom of that compartment might be what we call a transparent swirl, a little later than most slags. And the marbles to the right are something else.

These are called slags. The companies would have called them "onyx" back when they were made in the early 1900's. But the collector name for them now is "slag".

That's how confused you had me. That Taz looked pretty old, but I knew it couldn't be before 1954. But that would still be a little old. You had my mind going every which way.

I should have! Doh!

Hi Bill! Hi Wally! I used to have a house panther. ❤️