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Me too.

I agree with Akro.

I think the darker green one is an Akro.

Nice, those are great!

That's a real beauty Paul! Here is the one I was talking about on facebook with the brown tracing the ribbon in the green. This one is a shooter and not near as pretty but still nice. The photos aren't very good, I think I took these under halogen lights with my cellphone and it muted the colors a bit.

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Looks an awful lot like a vitro but it's an akro out of the pictured box set.

I have one of those too. I suspect it came from Santa (Rich)? Made from Akro cullet I assume?

That's a nice one! Here's a tight akro.

That's pretty close, thanks. I just download them to photobucket. I agree, this took an unintended tangent (my fault). I'll give it a chance for Ric to look at and if no more discussion I'll delete.

Chuck called mine a Ruby Dragon. I found yours while searching the name. Here are 3 more pics of mine. I can't seem to get a 100% pure representation of the color for some reason, even after messing with the white balance and ISO. It's half a shade bluer in the pics than it really is.

Dang, I hate to hear about the Hot Wheels! I traded most of mine for marbles. When I was a kid, I was on a trip to my grandparent's house. While we were there, my mother found her marbles from childhood and gave them to me. She gave them to me not expecting much, but she told me they were old and special, etc... etc... and so I saved them. We then moved from the city to the country and the kids in my neighborhood played marbles, which I had never done before. I was good. It wasn't long before I had amassed a pretty good collection. I kept mom's separate though and she saw my interest and got me an early Everett Grist book about old marbles. It mostly had handmades in it and didn't give much value to machine mades, but I started collecting. I found a fractured frog sulphide at an antique store in town for $2.00 (the book showed it could be worth hundreds!!) and the hunt was on! I've been hooked ever since and the fractured frog sulphide is still in my collection. I took a haitus for several years but always kept the interest. I did a lot of arrowhead hunting and metal detecting but I came back to marbles a few years ago and have been hard at it ever since.

Yeah. I've learned the key is to have plenty of them and not types they like much. I have success with eelgrass, amazon swords, and even anacharis. Hornwort does okay and java ferns do really well. I have a natural bottom too but to keep them from making huge holes, I put good sized river rock all mixed in so that they can't dig too much.

I've got a cichlid tank too. These pics are old, there are a lot more fish in there now. There are a lot of fish in the tank during these pics too but they used to hide all the time, which is why I got a lot more fish... to keep it stirred up. Now I have a bunch of baby yellow labs in the tank from a hatching... anybody need some yellow lab cichlids?

I would have put the first two with CAC, the next might be Cairo, then Alley for the next, and Cairo maybe for the last.

My first thought was Sistersville Alley.

Here's one that was posted by Jeeperman that I used to compare with. i included a pic of mine to have a side by side comparison:

Huh. I'll give it more thought. Do you have cullet like it? Don't worry about "rubbing my fur the wrong way", I am more interested in the correct ID of a marble than the need to be right.

I agree with Alley too. Especially with the second pic. Nice!

These just got IDed as likely Heaton by Ron:

Ric, in your group shot, the big one in the center...does it look like this? This one's about 11/16" in with my pelt NLRs. Chuck G. called it a Ruby Dragon. Sorry for the crappy pics... they are old and from a cell phone.

Wow, that second one is really nice! Kind of puts me in mind of a blue lagoon pelt but maybe even nicer.